A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ontains a perpetual calendarindicating all the variable holy-days and reg-ulates itself in leap years. There is in addi-tion an ecclesiastical computation, a plane-tarium representing the revolutions of theplanets, the phases of the moon, the eclipsesof the sun and moon, calculated to the re-motest time, a new celestial globe with indi-cations of the equinoxes, etc. The remaining parts of the mechanism areconfined to a repetition—of course in moreperfect form—of the old ones, the frame-work being the same. The first stroke ofea
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ontains a perpetual calendarindicating all the variable holy-days and reg-ulates itself in leap years. There is in addi-tion an ecclesiastical computation, a plane-tarium representing the revolutions of theplanets, the phases of the moon, the eclipsesof the sun and moon, calculated to the re-motest time, a new celestial globe with indi-cations of the equinoxes, etc. The remaining parts of the mechanism areconfined to a repetition—of course in moreperfect form—of the old ones, the frame-work being the same. The first stroke ofeach quarter hour is struck by one of thelittle angels seated above the perpetual cal-endar, the second stroke of each quarter byone of the four ages, that proceed aroundthe central figure Death. Childhood strikesthe first quarter. Youth the second. Man-hood the third and Old Age the last. Deathstrikes the hours, while the second littleangel turns the hour glass he holds in hishands. At the stroke of twelve, the twelveapostles pass before Christ bowing to him;. Strassburg A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 181 the Savior blesses them by raising his hand,while the cock crows and flaps his wingsthree times. The cock is the true historicalfeature of the work; it has been faithfully-retained since the fourteenth century duringthe various renovations, and has thus dailyamused and astonished the generations offive centuries. During the afternoon Istrolled about the town and found that therewere many interesting old houses in the city,and some quite handsome, modern mansions. Friday, October the train for Paris this noon we passed the boundary betweenGermany and France where we were care-fully inspected, first by German and then byFrench officials. The first town of import-ance we came to, after entering France, wasNancy which is quite a bustling place. AboutEpernay there are many vinyards that pro-duce the wine from which champagne ismade and, on a hill near that plac
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