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Show MARVELOUS MECHANISM. THE MOST WOKDERFOTi CLOCK OF THE AGE. I But tho etrangCBt thing we over heard of in the way of a timepiece was a clock described by a Hindoo rajah j as belonging lo a native prince, and jealously guarded as one of the rarest treasures of his luxurious palace, n front of the clock's disk was a gong swung upon poles, aud near it waj a pile ol artificial human limbs. The pile was made up of the full number of parts necessary to constitute twelve periecl bodies; but all lay Ueapou lugeiuer m iipycucuv lesion. When tho hands of the clock indicated the hour of one, out from the pile crawled just the number of partB needed to f'trm the frame of one man. part coming to part, with quick, mechanic click; and, when completed, the figure sprang up, seized a malic', and, walking up lo the goug struck ono blow tliat sent tho sound pealing through every corridor and room iu that Blately palace. This douo ho returned to the pile and foil to pieces again. When two o'clock came, two men arose and did likewise; and at the hours of noon and midnight the entire heap sprang up, and, marching up to the gong, struck one after the other hia blow, making twelve in all, and then returning fell to pieces as before. Troy Times. |