_Electric Clock._--It is said that the electric telegraph will annihilate
time and space. Of the former we have visible proof. Look at the new clock
in West Strand. The minute-hand moves only once in each minute, and then it
jumps a whole minute at once, and occupies a second of time in doing so.
Now, supposing the clock to indicate true time at the instant of each
movement, it is obvious that it must indicate untrue time at every other
instant: hence it only indicates true time during one second in each
minute, twenty-four minutes in each day, and six days and two hours in the
whole year, or less than two years in a century; whilst, during the
remaining ninety-eight years and more, it is _annihilating_ true time, by
imposing upon an unwary public that which is false!