A REMARKABLE CLOCK.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1781, 5 November 1879, Page 3

A REMARKABLE CLOCK.

There is now on exhibition in Detroit, Michigan, a clock (the work of Mr Felix Meier, a meohanic), which is said to eolipie the famous clock at Strasburg in complexity and interest. It stands 18ft in height, and is enclosed in a black walnut frame, elaborately carved and ornamented. The crowning figure is that of " Liberty," on a canopy over the head of Washington, who is seated on a marble dome. The canopy ;is_ supported by columns on either side. On niches below, at the four corners of the clook, are four human figures representing "Infancy," "Youth/' " Manhood," and " Age"; each has a bell in one hand and a hammer in the other. The niches are supported by angela with Airing torches, and over the centre is the figure of Father Time. At the quarter hour, tbe figure of the infant strikes its tiuy bell ; at the half hour, the figure of the youth strikes his bell of louder tone; at the third quarter, the man strikes bis bell; and at the full hour the grey beard. Then the figure of Time steps out and tolls the hour, a 3 two Bmall figures throw open doors in the columns on either side of Washington, and a procession of the Presidents of the United States follows. As the procession moves Washington rises and salutes each figure as it passes, and it in turn salutes him. They move through the door on the other side, and it is then closed behind them. The prsceeaion moves to the accompaniment of i varied music played by the clock itself. The mechanism also gives the correct movements of the planets ronnd the sun, and there are dials whioh show the hour, minute, and second in Detroit, Washington, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Cairo, Pekin, and Melbourne. The clock also shows the day of the week and month in Detroit, the month and season of the year, the changes of the moon, &o. It is said that Mr Meir has I worked on this clock nearly ten years, andfor the last four years has devoted his whole time to it.