Show THE LANDMARKS GOING 1 those those who are familiar with the highways and byways the ins ing and outs of london and we have hundreds perhaps thousands of them close by remember and perhaps retain of RD an interest in the old clock in st pauls cathedral that has hag done duty through so BO many generations it le la now to be taken down aud and replaced by one of a tore more modern con COD this is pronounced a piece of vandalism generally anu and by some but little less lea than desecration and is most earnestly protested against we learn that the clock which was put up by langly bracey bracey in 1798 is ie I 1 splendid condition and might to all appearances go on for another two centuries without jailing bear a accurate record ol of the passing time it la Is a grand old clock remarkable for the magnitude of if lib its wheels and the fineness of ltd ito work it cost 1500 to build its two dial plates are 51 feet agn n circumference and the hour numerals are 2 feet aud and aj inches in height the minute hands are 9 leet feet 8 inches long and weigh 75 pounds each and the hour banus are 5 leet feet 9 inches long and weigh 44 each the pendulum is 16 leet long it is an eight day clock striking the hour on the great bell which is sua suspended about forty feet from the he floor the head ul of the hammer weighs pounds and the clapper pounds the iconoclasm of progress has one thing and perhaps only one to corn com maud it it is impartial Lial and strikes here and there chore alike with the ducer uncertainty in one respect aud and ati solute certainty in soother another of lightning landmarks which are sacred in some eyes are nuis nuisances arices in others and generally the latter control the situation it t ti ok a protest amounting almost to an uprising to save our eagle gates gate and it did not altogether escape the hand of the leveler as it was but still we have it and that IL if something to be glad of |