Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-14

his eye, which gave him a choked loolr
on one side, and said, as he filed his Ian
iull OF cogwheels:
why, there's nothing the matter
win this watch. When you want to
set II you just pull the stem ont an
eighth OF an inch and turn the hands.
thats all. Twenty minutes to ten now:
there you are. Good watch; splendid
watch. No charge. Not at all; you're
quite welcome. Come again after your
season is over and buy out our diamond
counter" - -
Everybody who goes to Mr.. Tiffany
gets good treatment. He Is above hon
ping on a watch that he did not sell.
IL IS so with great men in every line.
seth ssys-meaning Mr.. Thomas. of
course-that in winding a watch one
should hold it in one hand aud wind 1t
with the other. This will strike home
TO thousands Of careless people who
have been for years holding the watch
In the teeth and winding Ii by means of
the toes.
III the watch runs too fast, turn the
regulator toward ), which means slow;
II too slow, turn toward L. which means
fast" Ii is better, however, II you do
not know how TO read, to take it to the
matchmaker, who will move the regula-
tor at s. per move.
Never drive fence posts or kill insects
with the watch. 1t Injuries it. Never
expose the works while in state OF in
toXication.
Have regular time for winding the
watch and do not 60 over that time.
Do not wind the watch during the SER
mon at church II it be u Waterbury
watch, for you might lose the nub OF
the sermon.
Seth says you should have your watch
cleaned once year. am sorry If his
watches require cleaning once a year.
1t is not a good plan, he says, to put
the watch under the pillow. Possibly
1t should be put out of the window on a
clotheSline. IF worn ia the vest, "
Seth says, ''you can hang up the gar
ment at night" so also you can hang
up the watch too. Ihave done that.
Should your watch stop, do not shake
IL violently or pry the wheels with a
car starter, but take it to q watch
maker, who will look into it and tell
you TO leave it with him for a year or
two.
The watch has in the past centuries
grown from the clepSydra, or water
clock, UP 10 its present perfection.
Look at your watch and see what a
| luxury you have.
A good watch contains at least $50
/ pieces outside OF the chain. Some OF
/ the small screws look like steel filings,
and yet they are complete in thread,
/ head and slit. The slit on the head is
/ wO-oue-thOuSandthS of an inch in
| length. 1t takes 3OS, 900 Of these screws
20 weigh a pound. A pound OF them is
worth 81, 500. ! state this so that those
who may wish TO order few pounds OF
| these screws for household purposes will
| know what they are worth.
| The hairspring is twenty-seven ten
I thOuSaudthS inches thick, and the pro-
/ cess of tempering these delicate little
/ things is only known by few very en-
| inent people.
A ton Of gold is worth S6O2, 1921.
| A ton Of steel made up into hairSprings
/ is worth 1867, 900, so you see that a
/ man who will invent restorative that
will grow hairSprings-but let US pass
on.
II is estimated that a balance wheel
makes about 1876, $50, 900 revolutions per
! year, but that is neither here nor there,
The pivot on which the balance wheel
works is twice the size Of human hair
so l am told. The bearings are deli
cate Jewels, made OF ruby or sapphire,
and are worth S44, 500 per pound.
Some time ago l went to big music
box establishment on Broadway, New
| York, to get some music box oil, be-
\ cause the Swiss gentleman who made
my instrument-the only one l play
said that it should have, once year, a
/ drop Of music box oil on each bearing.
/ The music box store on Broadway
/ was very sorry, but l did not buy my
music box there bought il in Chicago
so il would be eternally thrown into
bankruptcy before it would sell me any
music box oil.
1t is sad to be sat down on that way
/ by a music box house. 1t took me two
| DAYS TO get naughty again. Then a
! friend said that all | wanted was watch
oil. 1t was the same thing. So | went
TO a big dealer where l had bought a
watch once for my wife and got little
phial of watch oil-no charge. But
say, fellow citizens, did you ever put a
/ little watch oil on your handkerchief by
mistake and then go TO church and get
put out?
Watch oil comes from the jaw Of the
porpoise. 1t is prepared by special
process, and men who are deaf do the
work so that they cannot hear it think.
You do not need much OF it. A quart
will Intricate IS, 500, 900 journals. Think
OF that, and then remember how muck
| fat IL will take TO lubriCate the journals
of New York city alone next fall.
But have driited into statistics and
| incidentally into politics.
Some sad stories indeed might be told
of the ravageS of the grip in New York
| II we could know them all and tell
them TO the world.
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