Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — Time Measured by Candles. [ARTICLE]

Time Measured by Candles.

The Chinese, besides using water clocks, also invented joss-sticks, which burned uniformly. The joss-stick is somewhat similar to what good old King Alfred of England is said to have used way back in the eight bundnM He was t great educator, and discovered that taaow candles could be used for dividing the time which he allowed his nobles in which tc metre complaints against each other.