Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-16

VI bLtO 4Lttl1 OOllISC, SO1i1O tbASO "a ANNA -~SS
from the ground, are the dials which indicate
the seconds, minutes, hours, days Of the week
and month and the movements OF the
planets.
THE HOUR OF TWELVE.
When the hour of noon arrives there IS
preliminary whirr of machinery set in mo-
ton, and silvery-toned bell begins to strike
the four quarters of the hour. At each stroke
of the bell the figure of an angel raises ham,
mer held in his right hand and strikes bell
held in his left At first glance one would
suppose that the sounds came from the bell
the angel holds, but this turns out to be an
illusion, for one soon notices that the angels
hammer does not quite touch his bell when
he makes his stroke and that the sound and
the stroke do not quite correspond in time.
In short, the angels bell is a dummy bell and
a wooden dummy bell at thats This discoy-
cry sort of rouses ones suspicious and he no
tees that the angels movements are stiff,
hesitating and 'woodeny,' SO to speak, and
do not at all represent the movements OF
human being, unless it be human being
badly stiffenedby Rheumatism One comes
to the conclusion that the angel is badly III
need of oiling.
Atthe side OF the angel is the figure Of a Ge-
MUS which, assoon as the fourth stroke comes
from the bell stiiaiy and jerl1ily turns over an
hour glass and resumes Lis former innaova-
bic position beside It. HIGHER up is the
figure Of Death represented by a skeleton,
and around the skeleton are grouped figures
representing Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, and
/ old Age-the four quarters OF the hour. The
| skeleton has a thigh bone in his right hand,
! and with this bone-the head o. the is sup
/ posed to strike the hours upon q, bell at his
/ side. but he really DOESN'T do anything Of the
! kind. His bell is also q wooden one and his
/ bone does not reach tie bell by an eighth Of
| an inch when he aims those slow, hesitating,
ierIzy blows of his at it. Besides he gets O.
little premature once il q while, and strikes
his bell before the real one goes off; at other
| times he is q little behind hand and brings
| his bone down an instant after the real bell
has sounded 1t would be superfluous to say
that the skeleton not only needs greasing,
but also regulating.
THE SAVIOR AND HIS APOSTLES.
While the skeleton is going through with
his dumb show and pretending to strike the
twelve strokes of noon door at the upper
part of the clock suddenly pops open and a
figure of the Savicr appears and moves
stifiy and jerkily forward few inches.
Then at the left hand of this figure another
door opens with snap and figure Of one
of the apostles appears. He springs forward
a few inches, stops as if surprised to find
himself in the presence of so many profane
tourists, hesitates single instant, as if de
batting whether to retreat or put a bold face
On the matter and go ahead, finally resolves
on the latter course, makes another jerk for
ward, and advances unsteadily until opposite
the Savior. Here he makes a full stop, turn
suddenly with snap which would decapi
tate living man, faces the Savior, makes {
clumsy movement, which might pass for al
) obeisance If one did not know any better, re
ceives the stiffiy given bepediction, jerk
himself around to the left, resumes his halt
ing. rheumatic journey toward an open doc
on the Sa7ior's left and disappears.
In the mean time another figure Of anothe
apostle has followed that of the first, goe
: through with the same jerly, uncertain
pantomime and takes his exit in the sam
rheumatic manner. So it goes OF until all o
the twelve apostles have passed in review
) Then, the door having slammed behind th
last apostle, the figure Of the Savior raises if
. wooden arms in very wooden way, bestoW
> q blessing on the assembled tourists-most O
= WHOM are sadly in need of real one-and
0 whisked ierlzily away. hope no one wi
accuse me of irreyerence or blaspheny if
suggest that it would be a fine idea to extern
the lutricating of the figures on the clock 8
as to take in at least the twelve apostles.
: THE CHANDELIER.
;: When the figure Of the Apostle Peter al
: peared the chanticleer on the summit of Il
e weight-tower begins TO 5estir himself. 3