A WONDERFUL TIMEKEEPER.
A native prince ol Upper India is said to ppseessi and jealously guard as the rarest treasure of his luxurious palace, the astonishing thing ever heard of in the way of a timepiece. In front of the clock's disc is a gong, swung upon poles, and near it a pile of artificial human limbs. The pile is made up'of the full number of the parts of twelve perfect bodies, but all lay heaped up together in seeming confusion. Whenever the hands of the clock indicate the hour of one, out from the pile crawl just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part joining itself to part, with quick metallic click ; and when completed, the figure springs up, strikes one blow that sends'the sound pealing through every room and corridor of that stately palace. Thi.« done he returns to the pile, and falls to pieces again. When two o'clock comes, the two men arise and do likewise; and so through all the hours, the number of figures being the same as the number of hours, till at noon and midnight the entire heap spring up, and, marching to the gong, etrike one after another each his blow, and then falls to pieces.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 4
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210A WONDERFUL TIMEKEEPER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 4
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