Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-18
HOY TO TREAT a WATCH.
Hints for Keeping Four Tin,cpiece tn Good


Hints for Keeping Your Tinscpiece II, Good
Order.
Having obtained really serviceable
article, you should, in order to produce
satisfactory results, follow out these
rules: Wind up your watch every day
at the same hour. This is generally
done at the hour we retire to rest, or,
perhaps, better still, the hour we rise.
Avoid putting watch on amarillo slab,
or near anything excessively cold. The
sudden transition from heat to cold con-
tracing the metal may sometimes cause
the handspring to break. Indeed, the
cold coagulates the oil, and the wheel
works and pivots working less freely af-
feet the regularity of the time-keeper.
When we lay our watch aside we
ought to slope it on watch case SO as
to keep it nearly in the same position it
has in the pocket. In laying aside your
watch be sure that it rests on its case.
By suspending it free the action of the
balance may cause oscillation, which
may considerably interfere with its
going.
II you would keep your watch clean
you must be quite sure that the case fits
firmly, and never put it in any pocket
but one made of leather. Those pockets
which are lined with cloth, cotton or
Gallo, give, by the constant friction, a
certain quantity of fluff, which enters
most watches, even those the cases Of
which shut firmly.
If the watch is not "keyless' one
the key should be small, in order that
We may feel the resistance of the stop
work; then We can stop in time without
forcing anything. 1t is also necessary
that the square of the key should cor.
respond with that of the watch. If it
be too large it may in short time cause
the wind-up square to suffer from I'm.
due wear and tear, the rectifying Of
which is rather expensive. The hands
of an ordinary watch can be turned
backward without much risk. It is,
however, always better to move the
hands forward to adjust your watch to
correct time.
A skillful matchmaker one day thus
reasoned with q customer who com.
planned of his watch: "You complained"
said he, chat your watch gains min.
ute a month. Well, then, you will con.
graduate yourself when you have heard
me. You are aware that in your watch,
the balance, which is the regulator,
makes five oscillations every second,
which is 432, 900 day; so that your
watch, exposed to all the vicissitudes
which heat and cold occasion it, the
varying weight of the air, and the shak.
ing to which it is subjected, has not
varied more than minute month or
two seconds day. 1t has only acquired
with each vibration of the balance a
variation Of the 216,0ooth part of Sec
ond. Judge, then, what must be the
extreme perfection of the mechanism OF
this watch"
A watch cannot go for an indefinite
period without being repaired OF
cleaned. At the expiration Of certain
time the oil dries up, dust accumulates,
and wear and tear are inevitable results
to the whole machinery, the functions
become irregular, frequently ceasing tc
act altogether. A person possessing q
watch of good quality, and DESTROYS Of
preserving it as such, should have il
cleaned every two years at least. But
care should be taken to confide the
cleaning or repairing to careful hands;
an incapable workman may do great in.
jury to a watch even of the simplest
construction.-Cha Journal.
APPRECIATING Il "CLAMMY FEEL
ING"
The most exciting sport on the sea.
shore is the clam chase, and there is
probably no sport going that gives a
man SO much exercise. In chasing the
clam you do not follow hounds as when
chasing fox, but striking his trail in
the mud after the tide is out you COM
mence to dig with an instrument known
as clam digger, and if you are in luck
you can fill bushel basket in couple
Of hours. I never appreciated what
that clammy feeling was until I had
eaten about a peck of steamed clans.
They set good deal like dried apples,
and one finds it difficult to navigate
after clam dinner, unless his interior
decorations are educated up to it. My
advice to any one coming east with the
intention Of eating clans is to break in
their digestive utensils by eating a
couple Of dozen of celluloid collars and
washing the same down with bottle of
prepared glue. This will get the lining
Of the stomach nicely calloused, and
then when you meet the clam on his
native heath, with sand in his gills and
his stomach full of seaweed, you can
laugh in ghoulish glee as you swallow
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