A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2154, 28 October 1902, Page 2

A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

Ingenious Plena of MmSsslsbi VM Hm Oooaplefl a CJtleaaro Mm , Nineteen Tans'*. A wonderful clock has junt been finished by Frank Bohacek, of Chicago. The building of the giant instrument occupied his spare time for 19 years and cost $4,000 in cash, says the Little Chronicle. There are four, dials arranged diamond fashion. The lowest is eight feet across, and in '' w the center is a red globe, a foot in diameter, that represents the sun. At the rim of the dial is a map globe of the earth and a ball representing the moon. The earth circles around the sun once in 365 days, and turns on its axis every 24 hours, while the moon makes a revolution T once a month. The clock is not, embarrassed by leap years in 400 years. Surrounding the disk is a band a foot wide, on which are the signs of the zodiac. The left hand dial has the hours numbered from 1 to 24. The one to the right has three circles of figures and three hands, and shows the day of the week, the day of the month and the month of the year. The top dial is like that of a common clock. Every minute a wooden statue, 18 inches higfi, appears at a windofw in the midst of the dials. These figures i represent the presidents, Columbus, m Uncle Sam, Columbia, Dewey, the erty bell eagle. Each marches, -J as if to pass the window, but suddenly turns and looks out. The inventor intends to add a giant music box, that will play a fiozen patriotic airs, one every two hours. The clock is operated by five 60-pound weights. . -•jfj'r ■_ i Information Always R«»4r. -■ “ Mrs. Talkly—Here’s something Is the paper about some town whore the curfew is still kept up. Whotdoeacur- - few mean? ! Mr. Talkly—lt means' a law to limit the number of dogaln the 'town.. -Curfew, in short* means fewer curs. Don’t bother me any more.— -Stray Stories.