The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01

hanging lamps had been disturbed in way other
and was swinging back and forth back and FORTH with
perfect regularity, marking just 50 much time with
every swing. People had often lamp
Calico himself had often noticed it BEFORE but on this
particular day, it made him think. He went home still
thinking and kept thinking until at last he worked
question Of time when clocks made which marked
OF time evenly enough to make the hours NALL Uniform.
But they could do great deal, even with the water
clocks. You know Haroun Al Raschd, the wonderful
Caph of Bagdad, in the Arabian Nights He ordered
a wonderful water clock made and presented to the
There twelve small the diaplae to rep
resent twelve hours. At the end of hour window
opened and small metal ball dropped out and fen
with tinhe upon gong At noon and at midnight,
twelve little knights rode out horseback paraded
around the dial the windows before return
ing to their places.''
what is the most wonderful clock you have ever
SEEN Uncle D1ck4 said Jack who liked nothing better
than to start his uncle stories of what he had
upon his travels which had taken him to almost every
country in the world
~ hardly KNOW replied Uncle Dick slowly. 'They
are all so wonderful, each in its particular way.
Think tho, the oldest clock T in Japan.
frame three feet by five a landscape, with plum
and cherry trees and shrubs of all kinds in full bloom
hill with cascade-crystal, it was-fowing from it
and winding in and out among rocks and islands until
it lost itself in faroff stretch of woodland In the
SKY was golden sun that turned silver wire and
struck the hours on SILVER gongs it passed Each hour
was marked on the frame and indicated by Creep
ing tortoise which used instead Of the hour hand
our clocks bird of exquisite plumage at the end
the hill @' ~ @'''FOO ''' wv
'and mama could hardly get away from it. wanted
to stand and watch it the whole twenty hours'
the clocks * % the she oe r@ most sd Of
Dick and while there are number of others that
are Id odd Or UNUSUAL they in merely
saw clock that was made of bread.'
"Bread! " exclaimed Jack. "What kind of breadf
don't see how kind of bread could hold any kind
of clock works.
t|It just the black, bread that the poor
Italians every day The could not afford to
buy metal for his clock, he apart certain por
ton of his daily Bread eating the crust and saving
soft part This he treated with certain chemical and
it dried into hard substance that would not dissolve in
water. Out of that he made clock the works.
time.'' - -
'sspeaking of Clocks" said Grandfather Norris who
had been listening to the conversation between Uncle
When I out in Nevada, looking after my mines,
saw clock that nothing but face, hands and
immense volume of water every thirty eight seconds
The inventor had managed to harness the geyser which
never varies its spoutlng by tenth of second and
every thirty eight seconds the spoutinp out
would send the minute hands forward with jump.
For several days watched the clock and it kept per-
''That reminds me- said Uncle Dick cot two
freak clocks saw in Paris. One made entirely
the various parts of bicycles The framework was
huge bicycle wheel, surrounded by twelve ordinary
bicycle Wheels all fitted with pneumatic tires. The
large wheel marked with the hours made of crank
rods and the minute marks the dial nickel
plated spokes. The top of the clock ornamented
with design made Of twelve handlebars The clock
struck the hours and the quarters on bicycle bells The
pendulum bicycle bell and the pendulum rod
composed of various parts of bicycle framework.
As this clock was public building, it must have
kept good time. E.5.1- s... i. - ...-.+ -
tfThe other timepiece little clock that sleepy
heads ought to have' Uncle Dick looked laughnev at
Jack and Jack felt dreadfu1y and all at once
but he said nothing, and Uncle Dick on stIt was
just ordinary clock to works and case but the
maker had used little monograph in place of the
repeater mechanism that the famous Swiss watches
have When certain button pressed the phono-
graph spoke the hour and the minute very distinctly
An alarm could be set and at the desired the pho
nograph not only rang bell, but shouted: tits -
O'Clock! Get up Get up! Don't go to sleep again!,'
.You spoke of the famous strasburg clock, said
Grandfather Norris again "That has always. been con-
sidered the most wonderful clock in whole world
as well about the Oldest but clock in Munich
the last time in Germany that I consider more
wonderful even than the famous Strasburg tmeniaco
about fourteen feet high and twelve feet wide and