Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — A Tiny Clock. [ARTICLE]

A Tiny Clock.

What is with tut doubt the smallest dock in the world was lately on exhibition in the shop window of a Gottingen jeweler. The dial measures less than one-third of an Inch in diameter, and toe weight which furnishes the motive power is suspended from a human hair

Cost of the British Church. The total income of the Church et tagtand is about 1800,900 a, week.

First proclamation of Thanksgiving day that is to be found in j printed form is the one issued by J Francis Bernard, captain general | and governor in chief inland over his majesty’s prov'nee of tht Mase saebusetts bay in New Bngland and vice admiral of thj same, in 17G7, reads as follows “As the business : f the year is now drawing toward a conclusion, we are reminded according to the laudable usage of the Province, to join together in a giateful acknowledgment of the manifold maicies oi the Divine Providerce corferred upon Us in the passing a.ear: Wherefore, I have thought fit to appoint, and I do, with the advice of his Majesty’s Gounoil, appoint Thursday, the Third Day of D cember next, to be a day of public Thanksgiving that we may thereupon with on.? Hea:t a.J A oice return our most Humble liiauks to Almighty God for the gracious Dispensations of His Providence since the last religious Anniversary of this kind, and es pccially for..that He has been pleased to preserve and maintain cur most gracious Sovereign, R-ing George, in Health and Wealtn, m Peace and Honor, and to extend the Blessings of his Go.ernmeut to the remotest part of his Dominions; that He hath been pleased to bless and preserve our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Prine.ss Dowager o* Wales, and all the Royal family, and by the frequent increase of the Royal issue to assure us the Continuation of the Blessings which we derive from that illustrious House; that He hath teen (pleased t.z prosper the whole British Empire by the Preservation of Peace, the Encrease of Trade and the opening of new Sourcesof National Wealth; and now paiticu.arly that He hath b y . pleased to favor < he people of this Province with healthy and kindly Seasons, and to bless the Labour of theii Hands with a Sufficiency of the Produce of the Earth md of the 8?a.

“And I do exhort all the Mims ters of the Gospel with theii (several Congregations within this Province, that they assemble on the said Day in manner to return their most humble thanks to Almighty God for theseiand all other of H s Mercies vouchsafed unto us, and to beseech Him notwithstanding our Unworthiness, to continue Bis gracious Pro idence oyer us. And 1 command and enjoin all Magistrates and Civil Officers to see that the said Day be observed as a Day set apart for reli gious worship, and that no servile Labour be per ormed thereon “Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the Fourth 1 ay of November, 1767, in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ire and, King, De* fender of tne Faith, &c. FRA. BE dNARD. “By His Excellency’s Command, ‘4. OLIVER, Sec’ry. “God Save The King.”

Judge Healy is ope mg cut an extensive new stock of Boots and Shoes, Rubbers of all kinds, school s oes, etc , for ’he rail and winter trade, at the lowest prices.