Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1898 — Telling Time Without a Watch. [ARTICLE]

Telling Time Without a Watch.

The following clever device is the way in which the natives of Liberia, in West Africa, who have no clock*, tell the time: They take the kernels from the nuta of the candle tree and wash and string them on the rib of a palm leaf. The find, or top, kernel is then lighted. AH of the kernels are of the same size and substance, and each wall burn a certain number of minutes, and then «et fire t<Tthe one next below.