The record-union., 1895-04-18
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.

machinery, and just as William was about
to bow to the King. Louis was hurled
from his seat and thrown PROSTATE at
| Williams feet.
In these latter years some very wonder
tul clocks have been constructed; but the
useful rather than the curious has been
the guiding principle in the construction.
LONDON boasts of two very wonderful
CLOCKS. Ihe one is on Royal Exchange,
ana Is SAID 10 be the best public clock in
| the world. The pendulum, which is COM
pensated, weighs nearly four hundred
! weight. 1t has what is known as re-
mohtolr escapement, its pallets are
JeWeled with large sapphires and it has q
chime OF fifteen bells, which cost 81, 800.
!, Another famous modern clock adorns
| The palace OF w Westminster. The dials are
twenty-five feet in diameter, the largest
IN the world with a minute hand, The
great wheel Is twenty-seven inches in
diameter; the pendulum is fifteen feet
long and weighs $50 pounds; while the
escape wheel, which is driven by the
musical DoX spring, weighs about one
half ounce. 1t has seen the end of two
great bells.
With the application oftbe spring to the
CLOCK 1t became apparent that the time
pieces could be made portable. Watch es
were but little known, if known at all,
before the sixteenth century Francis l.
l544 the exclusive privilege of making
clocks and watches within that city.
Henry VIII. seems to have spent much
money on watches. Edward VI. had
at his palace of Westminster "oons
larum or watch 'of iron, the case
lead" Elizabeth was fond of watches, OF
,whlcn, she had large collection. She
had "a clocke of gold, garnished with
uyemondes, rubyes, emeraldes and
! perles." "One armlet or shakell Of gold,
all over fairly garnished with rubyes and
dyemondes, having on the closing the air
OF cIocke," was a gift TO her in l57l-2 by
the Earl Of Leicester, master of the horse
Mary of Scotland had her watches. In
those days there was great variety in the
shape OF the watch. a favorite shape
was that OF a skull; another was that of a
coffin. Descriptions exist of several of
! Mary's s watches. There was one offin-
shaped in crystal case. There was an
| other in which cat-gut supplied the place
! OF the interior chain in the modern watch
| one very marvellous piece Of workman
snip IN the form OF skull is the property
! OF the DICK Lauder family. 1t was
| originally the property Of Mary Queen
! OF Scots, and was bequeathed 10 Mary
! Setour. her maid of honor, February Z
/ 1887. On the forehead of the skull are the
| symbols OF death, the scythe and the
hour-glass. At the back OF the skull is
| lime, and at the top Of the head are the
Garden OF Eden and the crucifXion. The
/ watch Is opened by reversing the skull.
! Inside are the holy family, angels and
/ shepherds with their flocks. The works
! form the brains. The dial plate is the
/ palate. Another skull-shaped watch
! which belonged to Mary was gift from
! her husband, Francis II.
Arnold OF the Strand presented George
! Ill. in 1864 a watch of his own mauufact-
ure set IN ring. Later, in ITO, he pre-
sented the King with small repeating
watch, also set in ring, the cylinder of
! which was made of an oriental ruby.
/ The Gar OF Russia, when he heard of these
mites OF watches, offered Arnold 1000
! gulneas If he would make one for him.
! but the artist would not consent.
| There is cherry stone at the Salem
| Mass Museum which contains dozen
| silver spoons. The stone itself is of the
/ ordinary size, but the spoons are SO small
| that their shape and finish can only be
| well distinguished by the microscope.
| Or. OllYer gives an account of cherry
stone on which were carved IA heads so
| distinctly that the naked eye could dis
| tlngulsh those belonging to Popes and
! Kings by their miters and crowns. 1t
was bought in Prussia for $4,000 and
thence conveyed to England, where il
was considered an object Of so much
! Value that It's possession was disputed
and 1t became the object OF a suit in
/ chancery. One of the Nurem berg tow
/ makers lnclosed in cherry stone, which
! was exhibited at the French CRYSTAL Pal
ace plan OF Sehastcpol, railway sta
ton and the IN easiah'' of hlopstock.
In more remote times an account ia
given of an ivory chariot constructed by
! Mermecldes, which was so small that q
/ ny could cover 1t with his wing: also a
/ snip OF the same material which could be
hidden under the wing of a bee. Pliny,
! too, tells that Homer's "1liad " with Its
! $4,000 verses, was written in so small a
space as to be contained in a nutshell:
while Ethan mentions an artist Who wrote
dlstlch III letters of gold, which he iu-
! closed In the rlnd OF kernel of corn But
! the Harleiau MS. mentions q greater
curiosity than any OF the above, it being
/ the Bible, written by one Peter Bales,
! chancery clerk, III SO small book that it
| could be Inclosed in the shell of an Eng
lish walnut. Disraeli gives an account of
many other exploits similar to the one OF
/ Bales. There ls drawing OF the head OF
! Charles II. in the library of st. Johns
! College, Oxford, wholly composed of
! minute written characters, which, at a
! small distance, Tesem bic the lines OF an
! engraving. The head and the ruff are
! said to contain the Book of Psalms in
/ Greek End the Lords Prayer. In the
| British Museum is portrait OF Queen
Ann no. much larger than the hand. On
! the drawing are number of lines and
| scratches, which, it is asserted, comprise
| the entire contents OF thin folio
! In all departments of mechanical sci
! ence there has been advancement. Me-
! ohanical Improvement has come to the
aid of the philosopher, and the necessities
/ Of the philosopher have stimulated me-
/ chanical genius. Medical science in ali
/ its branches has gained by improved in
struments, and the improvement of the
/ instruments is in many cases directly & ue
/ to the requirements or demands OF the
science.
Improvement in the telescope and ap-
! paratus and machinery of the obserya-
! tories generally bring the world into
| closer contact with the heavenly bodies
Ii one can now see rivers and lakes.
islands and continents, great seas and
| lofty mountains, there is no reason why
one should not, in few years from now,
see the living things thereon, should
! there be such. Photography has done
already some wonderful things. but i'm
! connection with the telescope il is rising
to things still more wonderful. 1t prom
lses an accurate map of the heavenly
bodies.
1t is hardly necessary to say anything of
electricity, for everyone is face to face
with 1t every day. 1t lights the streets
and places of business; it supplies power
TO machinery, and it carries people to
and from their homes. Coupled with the
telephone it has virtually annihIlated
distance and removed all barriers so far
as the human voice and sounds generally
are concerned. One of the latest discoy-
cries, and one of the most important, is
that continuous material connection is
not necessity for the conveyance Of
sounds.
Oak Park Dances.
There will be a social dance given at