The Washington critic., 1889-04-09
THE TOWNS PHOTOGRAPH.

Something should be done with the curb
stone statues who infcst the entrances TO
the theatres and churches OF this city, aud
few cases made against persons obstruct-
ing the sidewalks, especially Sunday after
moons, would doubtless have salutary eff
feet. These nuisances exist IN the greatest
numbers at the doors Of 81. Johns (Protes-
tant Episcopal) and st. Matthew's Cath
olic) Churches, and It is becoming q matter
OF complaint among ladies that they are
unable at times TO force their way through
these insulting scoundrels.
Blcar-eyed old buns, who have been on a
dcbauch at somebody elses expense the night
before, and u contingent of callow whipper-
suappers whose sole aim In life seems TO be
to suck q cane--a nursing-bottle would be
more appropriate for their tender mouths
congregate about the churches named every
Sunday afternoon and lcer at every female
who passes them. There will be a scene In
front of church some fine afternoon that
may have tendency to shock worshipers
and stir up some of the sleepy policemen,
who are an unknown quantity when these
rowdies are holding convention on the
curbstone.
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When you 20 to ride on the lexington
electric street cars these pleasant after
Moons you may, II you wish, leave your
watches at home. watchmakors about the
city who don't know the effect Of an cleo
tric current on q watch have been much
puzzled of late over complaint they have
found many watches suffering from, and
which they have been unable to diagnose.
A matchmaker who Is not up to these cleo
trical times gets watch suffering from
magnetization. lie prizes open the case
with his thumb-nail as easily as If you had
never tried half an hour and broken both
your thumb-nails trying to do II and
couldn't, screws his monocular magnifying
glass into one eye, looks at the works and
says II needs cleaning. You leave II and
he cleans II, and still II won't go. Every
thing is all right about the watch as far as
looks go, but the watch won't go. Then
he either tells you your watch is worn out
and can't be fixed, or else goes to another
matchmaker and finds out that the watch ia
magnetized, and that the only way to fix II
is to demagnetize IL. 1t is all simple
enough. The electric cars are thoroughly
permeated with the powerful current OF
electricity that runs them.
i"se pa,' VI 'ne "oino y, !" ma'on "0
VI e.eei' .uo Ve''e, ,"V ""seA sno ny. .u
to the influence Of electricity. The cleo
tricity turns each one Of these steel pinions
and levers and springs into magnet and
watch can't nm n Ia all very simnle. bnt
how to make tho magnets cease TO he mar
nets is tho question. The process ia rather
complicated and some electrical parapher-
MALTA ia necessary to the process SO that
some watchmakers, when they get mag
netized watch TO fix, send II to New York 10
some one who has the requisite apparatus.
Oddly enough, one of the drivers, or engi-
neers, or whatever YOU call the man who
runs an electric car, has common nickel
plated clock that he carried with him on
his car. and It IS never affected by the cleo
tricity. The reason is that the works OF the
cheap clock are brass and iron, instead OF
being steel. and tbey cannot be magnetized
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