The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10
SUN DIALS IN FASHION.
TIMEKEEPERS THAT WERE FA-
 NOUS IN ENGLISH HISTORY.
Indicators of Time in Ancient Church. yards-CostIy Sun Dial Set Up by Charles II--cIock at skIbo Castle old sIottoes-Methods Of Makers.

sun ulaiS have come aSaln lntO fashion; they are to be seen every where, and very often wrongly placed. Elegant designs too. are the modern ones, and a large place of business in London is kept almost wholly occupied in making new models to attract The eye and appeal to the imagination. A large quantity of the stones of Christs Hospital and old Kew Bridge were bought and have been carved into nice pedestals with historic flavor. In the old days no church was with out its sun dial, old St. cuthbert's in Edinborough. for example. has dialon the original tower to which the new building was added.
 In many old country towns the dial has for entrance occupied a prominent place on the church or in the kirkyard. It was the standard time keeper. But one farmers wife in Yorksire has q series of grooves on the stone flag of her house door. and has always the correct time under her eye-when the sun shines.
 A pretty new dial decorates Inver- leith Park, Elinburgh; and this is very useful addition to public places and gardens. Lord Haddington has a very handsome snn dial of massive design in his gardens at Tyringhame. Lord Ilehester has a variety of dials 90 placed that he can tell tile time on the glass of his bed room window with dow without getting out of bed.
 At Sandringhan there is very fine dial engraved on slab and built into the walls of the house. The notices chosen by the King and Queen are: My time is thy hand and "Let others l tell of stories and showers. I'll only count your sunny hours A huge stone dial six feet square, Is on the wall of the old Tile House in Bucking- hamshire.
 "Begone about your business was inscribed on the dial of the old brick house which stood Tn Inner Temple Terrace, London; and the present old sun clock in Pump Court, has marked the disappearing hours for over three centuries, While various cathedrals such as Ripon Minister, have very old dials. singular to say St. Paul's, Lon- don, has none; but as clocks were just appearing when Wren designed his masterpiece 1t Is probable that the old time had to give place to the new
 That unsav0ry locality known as Seven Dials derived it's name from a large stone dial which stood in the center of the square with streets branching off. A splendid example of Inigo Jones architecture stood for years in the middle of the new square at Lincoln's Inn. with the proud mot
 to, Let your lights So shine before mem and the irony of fate was ex-
 emplified when II was removed to make room for a large iiarlng glass lamp.
 Glamis Castle has an elaborate dial
 tall pillar with four lions erect and
 back to back, bearing the plate A
 earonet surmounts all. Doubtless
 when Macbeth was thane of Glamls lie
 would eye some sun clock when he wanted to know9how the time passed
 Lord Glasgow has an ancient tims plate standing l0feet inches high ant
 bearing date HOT and Lord Roseberry
 has pleasing dial at Dalmeny.
 What is said to be the most costly
 sundial ever erected was one in pyra-
 milal form, set up in the year 1869 by order of Charles IT, facing the ban
 quoting house at Whitehall. It's inven, tor was a Jesuit and professor oi
 mathematics at Liege
 This tall pyramid contained no fewer than 271 different dIals. Some showed the hours according to the Jewish
 Babylonian, Italian, and astronomical
 ways of counting, while others display. ed tables pertaining to astronomy, geo. graphy. astrology etc. There were portraits on glass of the King ant Queen, the Duke of York and Prince Rupert The cost of this royal toy wa , enormous, and for repairing 1t on ont occasion the bill came to $500. Skibo Castle has very ancient sun , clock although Mr. Carnegie person ally prefers his household to be regu : lated by Greenwich time.
 The Duke of Sutherland has a yer! expensive dial erected quite recent, in the gardens at Chorley Wood, Sur .. . rey.
 , Quite unique has been the idea Q . the Duke of Newcastle. Tn his hous at Clumber he has pedestal on whicl ] are two iron hoops about a yard in dl ameter placed transversely, one insid the other. with rod across the middle , In the center is knob which, whel , thesun shines, throws it's shadow on tn {. figures that are marked in gold on tn , hoops, so that very attractive tim | clock is produced.
 Another departure from the conven
 tional stone pedestal is on the lonel. , island of St. Marys, one of the Sicil. !, group An old cannon is stuck up a ward with dial plate fixed across it mouth.
 $ An obelisk at Rome, which wa n brought from Egypt by the Empero t Augustus, has been set up as a gno r mon. On the pavement around it ar
 lines marked in bronze. and for over
 century Romans have glanced at tn
 "hour o'clock as they proceeded Q
 their way. '- There was ingenuity on the part { '- the French gunner at Paris who ha s charge of the gun for proclaiming tn d hour. of noon. He so arranged the dit Il that the hour of noon concentrated th '- rays of the sun through burnin }. glass on the powder at the cannon n touch hole and the time gun was thu / fired.