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A WONDERFUL NEW CLOCK. j

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A WONDERFUL NEW CLOCK. In the little town of Woodbury, in Bedford, Pa., according to an American despatch, resides a young man of mechanical genius who is working at a wonderful clock, which, when completed, will pro- bably eclipse anything yet produced in the clock line, not even excepting the celebrated Strasburg clock. He has been working at this clock over five years, and expects to finish it next spring. It will be twelve feet high avid five feet wide and three and a half feet deep, and is built entirely of walnut wood. It is artistically designed, and displays graceful pro- portions, while the mouldings ornamenting it are delicately carved. On the lower front of the case is a circle of eleven diais, with a large dial in the centre, giving the time at Washington, D.C., in hours, minutes, and seconds, the month of the year, the date of the month, the day of the week, the four seasons of the year, and the changes of the moon. The eleven remaining dials give the difference of time in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Pekin, Constantinople, Melbourne, Vienna, Cairo, and St. Petersburg. One of the most curious features of the clock is a contrivance by which at a certain hour of the day a figure representing William H. Vanderbilt, the railway king, arises from his chair, holding a charter in his right hand, and all the other great railroad magnates of the country slowly enter a door at his left, pass, bow to him, and dis- appear in a submissive way at a door to his right.

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