Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Dia’s. [ARTICLE]

Dia’s.

The Italian peasants make a cheap dial. A large nay a “ten-penny”— is fixed into a white. stuccoed wall, gnd its shadow* is observed at different hours, its extremity being figured from the church- clock, of from some wellregulated watch. These dials are not quite correct, but they make an Approach to the truth, and serve in lieu of better time-markers.