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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13109, 18 May 1911, Page 1

A foreign journal describes a wonderful mechanical contrivance, a, watch made in Switzerland that calls out the hours in a voice like that of a human being. This mechanical curiosity is the invention of oneCasim.ir Li van, who based its principles upon his knowledge of the workings of the phonograph. The casei, instead of containing a striking apparatus, as some of the late costly watches do, is provided with a phonographic cylinder, which is fitted with a .'sensitive (phonographic plate, which has received the impression of f» human voice before being inserted in the watch

Tho late Duke of Wellington got a letter oncei from a lady, saying she was soliciting subscriptions for a certain church, and had taken the liberty to put his name down for £200, anil hoped he would promptly send her a cheque for that amount. He forthwith replied that he would respond to tho call; but he, too, was interested in a certain church which needed subscriptions, and, counting upon his correspondent's well-known liberality, ho had put her down for £200. "And so," ho concluded, "no money need pass between us."