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Show am CURIOUS CLOCKS. I VM ono 'Wlthotit Works Was I'roinlncnt In ,W tho l'roiich l'aliieo. I The timepiece ordered of Pouchior by ' Due d'Aumnlo's grandfather for the prince of WnlCB.aftorv.ard Ueorge IV. of ' M Kngland, was recently sold in 1'arU. It i3 iu the ftn m of un negrcss' head, mod-1 . oled admirably. Jewels aie incrusted m in the bronze around the neck to form ! a necklace, in the woolly hair and in the sl bust, as. a clasp for the handkerchief. I I A pair of open-work gold earrings, long ! and delicately carved, hang from the ' cats. On pulling ono of them the hour is I shown on the right eye and the minute I on the left. If the other earrhig is I drawn a set of musical liella, lodged whuro the brain should be, chimes out the time of day. A clock without works is a distinct novelty, yet one formerly stood in the splendid Cour do Marble a Versailles, where it was installed in tin- v reign of Louis XIV. Its hands nluujb pointed to the exact moment of the death of the last king of France, and P never uuncd during his successor'" reign. Thus, as one writer has put it, it was a perpetual reminder to the moat splendid of courts that "the paths of glory hud Vut to tho Slave." "Tn the prMac collection of a gentre-mnn gentre-mnn in the south of England is u timepiece time-piece which records the ape of nil the planets by an arrangement which gives the exact revolutions of each one. Pesidea giving the golden number, the dominical lettervand other similar information in-formation of equal interest, this remarkable re-markable clock recorda the t'rr.o when it is high tide at various poinLs in Eu rope. Some time ago a description appeared ap-peared in an Araetican journal of a Japanese clock standing in a frame three feet high and five broad, representing repre-senting a landscape of great beauty. In the foreground were plum and chcrrj trees in full bloom, while in the rear was a hill, gradual in ascent, from whichliov.eda cascade of crystal. From this point a threadlike stream glidu' along, encircling recks and tiny itl md in its wanderings, but presently ! ipg itself in a far-off stretch of woodland. 1: the sky turned a golden aim, indicating an, it passed the striking hours, which were "marked upon the frame below, ' where a slowly creeping tortoise served as n hand. A bird of exquisite plumage, resting on tho branch of a plum tree, proclaimed by its singing the expiration expira-tion of each hour; while, when the Kong f ceased, a little mouse sprang from a grotto close by, nnd running over the hill hastily disappeared in the distance. J X. Y. Times. |