Arizona silver belt., 1886-09-04
CURIOUS IlME.PlECES.
Odd Watches and Clocks Discovered fl
 Various Parts Of the World.

Odd Watches and Clocks Discovered in
 Various Parts of the World.
 In the year 1889 q transparent watch, of small size, constructed principally of rock crystal, was presented to the Aca- demy of Sciences in Paris. The works were all visible; the two-teethed wheels which carried the hands were of rock crystal and the others were metal. All 1 the screws were fixed in crystal and each axis turned on rubies. The cscapement was of sapphire, the balance-wheel of rock-crystal and the spring of gold. It kept excellent time.
 A curiosity in the way of watches was shown by the director of the Watch makers School at Geneva before the 1 neurological section of the Society of i Arts at meeting last year. This woii- | der is nothing less than q watch with one wheel, manufactured at Paris, in the last century. The watch was presented | to the National Institute in l79O, being then in deplorable state; but | the teacher of the repairing section at the school has, after many hours of labor, succeeded in rc-estab- ishing harmony between the various organs, so that it is now in going order. 1 It would take a professional wathmaker to describe the manner in which the one wheel is made to perform the whole duty of keeping time.
 A recent number of the Je1Oelers' Cir c7tlar describes an ancient musical clock now in possession of q citizen of Mari etta, Wis. 'It is two hundred and thir- ty-five years old, and keeps good time. The movement is made of wood, lead and iron. The weight that runs the musical part weighs fifty pounds, It plays piece every hour, but it is rather hoarse at present from old age, The dial is large and has the paintings of William Penn describing his history At the top are five musicians dressed in uniforms, who raise their instruments to their lips as they begin to play. The case is made of maple and mahogany. it was made in the year 1649, and was brought to this country in 1S47 by party of immigrants, being the only time-piece brought with them."
 A paragraph went the rounds of the Newspapers some time ago describing the novel invention of a Salt Lake ieweler. It is a time-piece in the shape of a steel wire stretched across a show window, on which a stuffed canary hops from left to right, indicating as it goes the hours of the day by pointing with his beak at dial stretched beneath the wire and having the figures from one to twenty-four. When it reaches the latter figure, it glides across the wire to one again. There is no mechanism whatever that can be seen, it all being inside the bird. The inventor says he was three years in studying it out.
 A clock of some historic interest was recently sold at auction in Carlisle, Mass. It stood in house at Lexington at the time the shot was fired which was heard ''round the world" The British set fire to the house, but the clock cs- capped in some way and has just turned up again after the lapse of a century in perfect running order. It was purchased by a resident of LeXing- ton, and is now performing its daily round of duties in its oil home. It bears the date 1774, and is supposed to be remotely connected 10 that other ancient time-piece,' which to the poet seemed always to be saying:
 "Forever-never-
 Never-forever."
 A novel form of clock has recently been designed by an English artisan. The face has the form of a tambourine decorated with a wreath of twelve flow CTS at equal distances apart. Thesemark the hours, and over them glide two gay ly-painted butterflies, one larger than the other. These are the hands, the larger indicating the minutes, the small CT the hours. The works are concealed behind the tambourine, and the motions of the butterflies, which are made of magnetic metal, are produced by mag nets carried on the arms forming the real hands of the clock. Another clock worthy of mention is exhibited in we'll known clock-maker's window in Lon don. It is framed and colored photo graph of the houses of Parliament, West minister, with q real dial let into the tower to represent Big Ben." The dial is very small, to match the photograph; nevertheless it is said to keep good time.