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the maker nine years before lie could say it was done. The clock is 

 about nine feet high, and there are sixty-three figures that move by 

 machinery. There are only twenty-two moving figures in the Stras- 

 burg clock. On the front of the Wilkesbarre clock — the one we are 

 speaking of — there are three shelves or balconies. Along the lower 

 balcony a mounted general leads a file of Continental soldiers. The 

 liberty-bell rings, and a sentinel salutes the procession. A door in the 

 upper balcony opens and shows Molly Pitcher, who fires her historic 

 cannon, the smoke of which is blown away from the interior of the 

 clock by a fan. Then the portraits of the first twenty Presidents of 

 the United States pass along in a kind of panorama, the Declaration of 

 Independence being held aloft by Thomas Jefferson. On another of 

 the balconies the twelve apostles go by ; Satan comes out, and the 

 cock crows for the benefit of Peter. When Christ appears, a figure 

 of Justice raises a pair of scales, while a figure of Death tolls the 

 minutes upon a bell. 



The IIazleton Clock. 



All things considered, the most wonderful of all the large clocks 

 '■(instructed in America (Fig. G) is the one made by a watchmaker of 

 I la/.leton, Pennsylvania — a piece of work that shows forty-eight moving 

 figures, and that it lias taken the lifetime of the inventor to produce. 



