The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-26

| nestle troubles told upon the patient worker, and at last his friends declared him insane. At the thought of parting from his clock he became more excited He was forthwith put into a straight jacket and sent to a lunatic asylum. At length he managed to regain his lib-
 erty, on the understanding that he re-
 mained under police surveillance. He
 found that his home was no place for
 him, so he journeyed to Sarlsruhe (Ba-
 den), taking the clock and his tools
 with him. In this town he obtained,
 with the assistance of privy council
 Tor, free board and lodgings at the per manent industrial exhibition. After a
 stay of eighteen months he lost this
 place of refuge, and fled with his work
 by night to his son in Switzerland. In
 Carlsruhe he had been able to make
 some small savings and few friends
 gave him assistance. The German em-
 peror, though his majesty thought his
 task hopeless, sent him a sum of mon
 ey. At last the clock, however, was
 finished, but the constructor had no
 funds for the case. On this occas sion a
 parish priest came forward with gene
 rous and unselfish help, and the pro-
 ject was completed.
 It is claimed that this clock is as
 wonderful for it's artistic beauty and
 workmanship as for it's ingenious me
 chanical arrangements. It is inclosed
 in glass, so that it's every movement
 can be seen. It consists of twenty-two
 hundred parts, one hundred and twelve of which are wheels. Every de- tail is the watchmaker's own handi-
 work. The clock indicates the seconds, minutes, hours, dates, the days of the
 week. months and the seasons of the year, the pictures of the signs of the zodiac, the sum- moon and stars and the rising and setting, as well as the exact position of the celestial bodies. It shows, besides the moon phases, all the eclipses of the sun and moon It's calendar, it is urged, will last forever, with minute accuracy At the begin ming of the year it fixes by itself the statements of the astronomical practi- tioners in explanation of the everlast- ing calendar. as well as Easter, and the changeable festival days for the coming year A glass ball, representing the spherical globe exactly, shows the and positions of the plan cts Mercury, Venus, earth and moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
 The work is beautified by over hundred movable pictures and figures. Every quarter of an hour the figure of a guardian angel appears on the left side of the principal field The strik ing of the quarters is done by two an- gels, standing in the second recess on the left, while in the sixth recess two figures at a time, representing the four ages of man, are changing alternately. On the right side of the principal field the Angel of Death advances, pointing with his scythe to the dial plate. When he full hour strikes the center angel of the second recess appears, holding an hourglass, while the angel on the right side above is sounding a trumpet. Un- der the roof an allegorical figure repre- sents symbolically the right season of the year, while above in the principal field, the guiding star of the year ap- pears. On the left side of the cabinet stands a cock, which, five minutes be- fore noon beats it's wings, stoops it's neck, opens it's beak and crows three times.
 When the picture shows Spring" here appears a cuckoo above; with the season Summer" a quail comes forth ,n the left side, both calling seven imes. When the picture Autumn" appears a bull lying at the feet of the Evangelist St. Luke roars, and when Winter" is indicated lion, which ies close to St. Mark, raises it's voice. Every time the clock strikes twelve Christ, bending his head. appears with lis twelve Apostles, and a monk, tanding in the portal below, rings his Ave"
 The work contains also small chime. which plays five minutes after the striking of an even hour, the melodies changing and each lasting one minute. This work has twelve little bells, and )n the roller there are nine hundred md ninety-seven pins, which mako the music.
 Now that this patient worker has finished his task, he has been unable to ind any one to buy it from him.-Lon lon Telegraph.