CURIOUS TIMEPIECE.
About J67fi—Nicholas Grallior de Servierre, an old soldier, who had served in the Italian army, constructed a whimsical dock. A figure iof a tortoise, floating in a plate of ' water having the hours marked on the rim, would swim round and stop at the proper time, telling what o’clock it was, A lizard ascended n pillar, on which the hours were marked, and pointed to the time as it advanced. A mouse did the same thing by creeping along an , hour-marked cornice.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 67, 24 August 1909, Page 2
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84CURIOUS TIMEPIECE. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 67, 24 August 1909, Page 2
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