, 1888-05-17
A MECHANICAL WONDER.
a Clock In Germany That Is n Marvel of
Mechanical ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

a Clock In Germany That Is n Marvel of
Mechanical nius-Bri Description.
A copy of The Billingen Germany
Swarzwoelder, handed in by a German
friend, contains the description of a
wonderful clock, which, being translated,
is after this fashion:
About a year g a scientific clock was
on exhibition here, the maker of which,
Mr.. Martin, called it the Eighth Wonder of
the World. Judges in the matter of
clocks found this designation exaggerated,
as the work, on close examination, failed
TO make the impression which the high
colored description led people to expect.
Two Black Forest clock makers, Adolphus
Haensle and Augustus Noll, have, how
ever, created in the course of the year n
work which places the Martin clock very
much in the shade. This Haensle
and Noll clock has q height of $50
meters, width 3 meters and depth
! meter; it is built in the style
of the renaissance, and with its
figures and carvings, executed in a
truly artistic manner. The clock shows
the seconds and strikes the hours, quar-
ters and minutes. Besides, it shows the
days of the week, months, seasons and
the years up to 10000. 1t shows the
solar system, the phases of the moon, the
revolution of the earth and the zodiac;
then OF seventeen clock faces the time at
Berlin, Prague, Riga, Vienna, Cairo
egypt, Ttlis, Trieste, Rome, Munich,
Berne, New York, Geneva, Boston, Paris,
Metz, London, n in the center, on the
principal face, the time of the place
where the clock is located.
TIL arrangement of the clock is the
following: Below in the center there is,
nn1ar Ulagc and pnita DrNan 80 xtn,, 4Ln
principal movement, which, when
wound, will run for n year, s~upposing
that the clock is not moved. At the right
of the movement there is the work of the
calendarium, at the left a music box, and
in the front the globe of the earth, which
receives its revolution by a very simple
but ingenious mechanism. Above the
movement is the second and minute
hand, after the revolution of which an
angel strikes n bell and indicates the ex-
piration of n minute, while the hands of
the seventeen faces advance Jump one
minute. The expiration of a quarter is
again indicated by an angels striking
two bells.
In the course of an hour the ages of
man are r~epresented-at the end of the
first quarter a child appears, at the second
a youth, at the third a man, and at the
fourth an old man. The hour is struck
by Death, by whose side stands an angel,
who winks Death to desist at the appear
ance of the first three figures, but suffers
him to strike the hour at the appearance
of the old mar At the left hand, half
height of the clock, there stand the twelve
apostles, and before them Christ. At the
expiration of an hour the twelve bow be-
fore Christ, who blesses them by raising
hia honAa A. n nF,1n,Lr ,,n,,g.au,u1
evenings, a sexton rings the bell, while
three monks step from their cell and go
into the church for prayer; as thoy go in
choral music is played. At 10 o'clock in
the evening n night watchman enters
upon his duty and blows his horn every
hour until . O'Clock IN the morning; at 3
the cock crows, standing in n natural size
at the left upper corner of the clock.
At IL O'Clock Don and night the music
box plays n piece, and Mt u, night, the
calendary changes and the following
week, day and date appear, and at the
end of the month, whether of thirty or
thirty-one days, the name of the next
month will come up, and leap years are
not forgotten. At the left upper end
near the cock is n representation of the
apparent cour3e (revolutisn) of the sun
round the earth, which changes accord
ing to the season, so that it appears
larger or smaller. On the other side
nearest the cuckoo is the course of the
moon, representing thed different phases
of that satellite. The globe of the earth
revolves every twenty-four hours. On
the 21st of March, the beginning of
spring, the cuckoo, also represented of
natural size, begins its musical perform
ance and continues until the beginning
of fall.
Each season is represented symbol
ically. March 81, spring appears as q
maiden in company of a child with
wreaths of flowers; June 81, the maiden
carries n sheaf of wheat and the child a
sickle; Sept. 81, both carry fruit, and Dec.
81, the maiden has a spinning wheel and
the child a spinning whirl (spindle). On
Dec. 20, a lovely Christmas picture is
represented in the chapel and the music
box plays an appropriate tune. On Dec.
81, at IL o'clock at night, the trumpeter
plays a solo, accompanied by the or
chestra, to indicate the beginning of the
new year and at the same time the num-
Der of the year changes.
The run of this clock, as we have de-
scribed it, would repeat itself up to the
year 10, 900, and might then be prolonged
for another 10, 200 years, if the numbers
were changed. OF course this is illusory,
but it show that such a work might be
created The clock would have 10 stand
in the same place for 10, 900 years and be
wound regularly every year. And the
tooth of time and the natural decay of
everything earthly must be stopped
which is not very likely.-Waterbury
Conn American.
Specimen of n New Honey Plant.