may be, he comes off second best, because he surely was not the first to apply it. Indeed, a Dutch family named Fromanteel, who had been making clocks in England for some years, sent one son to Holland to work with Huyghens for a while, and upon his return, they introduced the first pendulum clocks in

THE MILITARY RECORD OF GENERAL JOHN F. REYNOLDS Any record that General John F. Reynolds made would have to be military. He put on his cadet grey in 1837 and stayed in the army until he fell at Gettysburg twenty-six years later. Grant got to be president of the United States. McClellan tried, then