THE STRASSBURG CLOCK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 34, 11 February 1915, Page 7

THE STRASSBURG CLOCK.

Strassburg, the capital of AlsaceLorraine, which is a. crucial centre of strategy in the western area of the var, is remarkable for the grett clock >f its Cathedral (says the ‘Sunday At Homo”).

This clock, which is 20ft in n-.ight, vas made by Jean Baptiste Sch vi’gue in 1812. Besides various astronomical 'vices‘indicating true solar time, : t >as a great platetarium in whi >h Ihe evolutions of the planets are repre"iited, so that the relative positions I each at any time can be seen at i glance. Then on a platform above a e movable figures representing the four ’ges of man. At the first quarto'- of in hour a child strikes the bed with i rattle; a youth in the garb of a hunter strikes it with an arrow a* the half-hour; at the third ,’.tarter a warrior strikes it with his swmd; and at the fourth quarter an o! i man strikes it with his crutch. Then a figure of Death appears and si; tins the full hour with a floshless hone. On the highest platform is a nat-ural-sized figure of Christ, and when Death strikes the hour at noon the 12 apostles pass before the loot of Hirer Master, bowing as they do so As Peter pisses, a hrg? rock porel*e I off on one side flaps his wings, ruffles his neck, an 1 gives * 1 -ee times a loud and perfect! / niiti’ral erew.