Show A MARVELOUS CLOCK I Tiny llamn nktUluiM dounl II In tint llonri The moot marvelous clock ever built is I the property of an Indian prince In one of the Inland districts of the cm plre The dial of this clock wns outlined out-lined In gold upon a caned slab of some peculiar marble and beneath It was utlanded I between two uprights a silver gong Then a broad flat sur ace of marble spread out before that lucre 1 from end lo end with a mln aluro bones and skulls and here and hero tiny hammers with little round balls for heads The bones seemed entirely en-tirely disconnected and looked only like so much rubbish remnants of the I tiny dead Tho clock stood In tho lining hall where tho ceremonious meal was being served and as 1 oclock drew near Iho prince called the visitors attention to a rustling among the dry bones With a faint clatter they began to rise and como together a skull ret In Itself upon the shoulder structure and from the masa of dry bones one tiny skeleton rose complete with a 1 hammer clutched In hits bony fingers Ho stood 1 beside time shining gong until tho minute hand pointed precisely to the hour iL f 1 A MAUVnUU8 CLOCK Then wllh n quick swing ho drove Ibo hammer against the shining surface sur-face and a silver note fine as Him burst forth and echoed away In soft cadence among the distant pillars of time place Ileforo Its whispers ceased In time stillness tho little skeleton had like the ghost of John James Christopher Christo-pher Hcnjamln Illnns gone down again and Ibo scattered bones lay motionless once more upon time marble plain At 2 oclock Ibo same ceremony was gene through with sao that this time two figures rose from out the heap of bones and each struck one nturdy stroke Of Its hlitory of Its wcllnlgh mat cal workings Us proud owner would say nothing |