Smyrna times., 1873-01-15
The Geneva Watch-makers.

Geneva has so long been the watch factory
f the world that little need be said on the
ubject. From four to five thousand men are
constantly engaged in making watches. Two {
Dr three Thousand more are employed IN
making musical boxes. In the absence OF
statistics it is supposed that one hundred and
ilty thousand watches are now made III
1eneva every year. The work is separated
INTO many departments. The watch-makerS
So caled-those who make the works OF the
watches-are the steadieSt class. They have
no trades union. The case-makers are treer
spirits, and have a trades union, as do the
jewellers, engravers and enamelers All OF
these latter command higher wages than the
watch makers, and, having more temptation, |
are more given to beginning the week on
Wednesday, after a leisurley spree. watch
maker averages about six francs, or nearly a |
dollar and quarter day. Jewellers, en-
gravers and enamelers can make little more
than that. Casc-makers can earn three dollars
a day But such are the habits of all these
four latter classes that they do not average
more than the six francs day OF the watch
work maker. There are no very large watch
factories in Geneva; that is, the workmeO are
rarely collected in on building. The indepen
dence of the whole class is indicated by the
fact that they generally work at home. Where
quaint old house reaches out for light
through many windows high above the dingi
ness of its narrow court, you may be sure that
the proud ruler of the little republic Is there
with his matchmaking or engraving tools lie
and his brethren who make music boxes and
singing birds, and the other industrious deni
zcns of the st. Gervais quarter, are the rulers
of this little republic, because they are the
backbone OF the radical party, and the radical
party is the back bone of the liberal or indepen-
dent party, which rules the city and the canton.
1t is these people who, under the lead ot
James Fazy in 1916, brought the aristocrats OF
the old upper city to terms, and made them pay
for the powder and the ball with which they
did it. They work and think, and rule one OF
the best, and apparently one of the least
governed cities in the wOrld.-Hdrpef
.udgdzine.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.-The New
York Times gives table OF the returns OF the
popular votes for electors, at the recent Presi
> Dental election, froE all the States OF tn
Union. The aggregates are 3,592 9S4 votes 10
. the Grant electors; 2,S33,S4I for the Greele
/ electors and 33, 293 scattering votes, the latte
f being chiefly for OConor, although some vote
f for Black, the temperance candidate Tor Pre-
sident are included. The majority for Graz
| over Greeley, is 759, 1877. In this table tn
h PinchLack returning boards return froI
o Louisiana is given, which announced the vol
h to be II .653 for Grant, and 81 ,029 for Creole
n This is the board recognized by the Admin
is tration. The Yarmouth returning board
sr that State made the vote 66,267 for (ireele
J. and IS, 252 for Grant. In 1868 the Preside
10 tial votes were 3,0l3lSS for Grant, and ., 7Ot
,e 600 for Seymour, Grants majority being 3Og
1r 5SS. Since that time the Republicans ha
i increased their votes by 579 1876; the Dem
- Gratis by l3O, PAT, and the Republican majOri
hos ;Dcraased 40 54Q the scattering votes
n 1872 being excluded from this computation.
.
~ Marriages are proverbially made in heave
- - II NAV therefore be imagined with what 81
~ ~ prise a wedding party lately assembled at
- Partisan restaurant received a visitor frC
ly another place. The room being warm, I
y window was opened, and the bride approach
~. ~ it to breathe the air. At that moment
no and horned demon foated in and came towa
90 her, still suspended in mid air. She uttere
,rSS scream and tainted just as the demons t
,So grazed her face. The unbidden guest Il
"a began to execute a series of pirOuetteS ab
,,v the insensible bride. He rose, he fell,
~ ~ performed somersauIts, his movements appC
NJ ing to be greatly assisted by the draughts :
;,n duced by the violent opening and shutting
-. doors consequent upon the hasty Hight OF
~ the wedding guests, including the bridegrot
~, W. When the master of the restaurant appear
yo' the cause of all this uprOar was sailing out
,lU ~ the window again. He proved to be fig
y made of gold beater's skin, which had ador
,n, the front of some toy shop, and, having b
Soo detached from it by the wind, was waited
on ove the room where the wedding party was ass
O% ,ow bled-London Echo.
ard ,.;o,,s ;ns.anco Of canine affection is
, lot l lated by the Terre Haute Erpress. In
'auI c;tv there were two dogs living in the s