Show A mechanical HORROR tb hoar of the day struck off by grinning machinery is a monthly journal published at johannesburg africa in a recent number is an account of a most remarkable clock belonging to a hindmo prince which the editor thinks the strangest piece of machinery in india year the dial of an ordinary looking clock is a large gong lung on poles while underneath on the ground is a pile of artificial skulls ribs legs and arms the whole numbs of bones in the pile being equal to the number of bones in 12 human skeletons when the hands of the clock indicate the hour of one the number of bones needed to form a complete human skeleton come together with a snap by some mechanical contrivance the skeleton springs up seizes a mallet and walking up to the gong strikes one blow this finished it returns to the pile and again falls to pieces when two two skeletons get up and strike while at the hours of noon and midnight the entire heap spring up in the of 12 skeletons and strike each one after the other a blow on th gong and then fall to pieces as before |