A WONDERFUL CLOCK.
What is said to be the most- wonder-] ful clock in the world is in St. Petersburg. It has Uo faces, and indicates simultaneously the time of day: at 80 points on the earth's surface, be.sidi.-. the niovement of the earth around the sun', the phases of the moon, the signs of the zodiac, the passage over the meridian of more than' 50 stars of the Northern Hemisphere, and the date according to the Irifgorian, Greek, "Mussulman, and Hebrew calendars. Two years were reouired to put the works together, a period which, all things considered, does not seem inordinately long v
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Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 2
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104A WONDERFUL CLOCK. Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 2
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