A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
A native prince of Upper India is said to possess, and jealously guard as the rarest treasure of his luxurous palace, the most 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 parts of twelve perfect bodies, but all lay heaped up together in seoming 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, This 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 bung the same as the number of hours, till atnoonand midnight the entire heap spring up, and marching to the gong strike one after another each his blow, and then falls to pieces,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 918, 5 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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209A WONDERFUL CLOCK. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 918, 5 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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