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Show An Old Watch. Mr. Alfnd Stevens, of Stevens & Sons, exhibited in the Hkkald office yesterday, an ancient silver watch, evidently of Swiss manufacture, bearing bear-ing the date of 1014, six years before the pt'rim fathers laoded on Plymouth Ply-mouth Rock. It is a repeator, striking strik-ing the hour and fractions of an hour, and though out of order, will slill run for a few minutes at a lime. Compared with the modern timepiece it is a fearful and wonderful wonder-ful affair, containing a labyrinth of wheels and springs. Mr. Stevens obtained ob-tained it from a persou in Denver, in whoso family it is said to have been for 200 years. It is oue ol tho oldest (if not the oldest) watches ou the continent. |