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Show Muffled tne BelJ. People who passed St. Paul's cathedral one evening last week may have fancied that the clock did not strike 8. It, however, how-ever, really did strike, and its Boundlessness Boundless-ness was, says The Daily News, due to a pious little conspiracy, of which certain music lovers who shall be nameless may perhaps not unreasonably be suspected. Bach's "Passion," according to St. Matthew, Mat-thew, was being performed in the cathedral cathe-dral before an enormous congregation, and, as everybody who attends such ceremonials cere-monials is aware, a church clock has the awkward habit of striking at very inconvenient incon-venient moments, often entirely spoiling the effect of quiet passages. So certain young men mounted the bell tower and took the liberty of tying a kneeling cushion cush-ion to the bell hammer, which thus fell without noise. Immediately after 8 o'clock the cushion was brought down again, and the clock struck 9 as usual. Pall ilall Budget. |
