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Show A WONDERFUL CLOCK. I H What Caberj'i strange l'lete of Mtehan- H lim Can Do. 'A Kankakco county man is tho pos- scssor ot one ot tho most wonderful ' ( ") K clock3 In tho country. This clock Is as near a perpetual motion machine as B any piece of mechanism yet designed. The owner is not a perpetual crank, ' H but an exceedingly ingenious Jeweler named Peter M. llavctisklhlo of Cabery, a hustling town In the southwestern jjH portion ot Kankakco county. Tho H clock is tho product ot many years ot H study nnd labor nnd considerable ex- H penso. It keps nicurato tlmo and will H run for a jcar without tho least atton- H Hon front Its owner. The clock prop- or Is run with a wheel sixty Inches In H circumference. From the outer surfaco H of the clrcuinfcrcnco arc suspended 120 H cups, each one-halt Inch In diameter H nnd a third of an inch deep. Each ot H forty ot those cups, which are bucccs- H lve, contains steel balls thrco-olghths H of nu inch In dlnmetcr. Every minute H and n hnlf ns this wheel turns by tho H weight of theeo halls, ono ot them falls H out of Its cup, rolls down nn Inclined H plane twenty inches long, when, by Its B own weight, it reunites a broken clr- B cult ot oloctrlclty ana Is again cl- HHl voted by a little car traveling along a HBl steeper inclined plana to tbo top of tho HHl whcol, where It falls Into n deep cup H which stands vertical for a short tlmo. BB After tho car dUolutgcs Its cargo It HHl returns to its original station from its own weight. From tho tlmo ono ot BBl theso balls is dropped into another HHl cup It travels thirty-six inches. Thus HB tho work dono by all tho balls is cqulv- flB nlcnt to ono ball traveling over ono HBl mile a day; 400 miles in one year, and HH during tho litotlino ot n jicrton living HB three score yearn the distance around HH the globe. Tho electricity used Is gen- HH crated in nn ordinary storage battery, HB which does not require any attontlon HH for fully a year. Another clock owned HHl by Mr. Ravenaklldo Is ot n similar con- HBl Btrtictlon, but considerably smaller. HBl This clock Is tiBcd to attract attention HBl in tho store. A porcelain globe Is- U placed back of the clock and at night H green, red and whlto electric lights reflect their rays alternately on tho fl fnco ut the clock, the colors being -l changed each tlmo tho bnll Is dlscharg- ed from one ot tho cups on tho tlmo- M piece Mr. Havensklldo has had many H offers to exhibit his clocks, but refuses M to do so, and so fnr ho has not had tho I - M mechanism patented. lloston JourtfoL , 1. , sH ... rtMMflUbaSiiptKMU-.V'HejlHt''-wi.jBBS |