Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-01-29
A CALENDAR WATCH.
The First One Cost $500. oo-Made
for Napoleon eonaparte.

for Napoleon Bonaparte.
A watch that tells the second. min
ute. hour. day OF the week, day OK
month. and changes OF moon, Is
time.piece, that until recently could pc
owned only by the nobility because
of the high cost. The first one cost
S2,6OO,OO and was made entirely by
hand and consumed over two years
time in construction. About SO years
later a Swiss concern placed some on
the market which could be sold In
this country for about 5000 each.
This watch that has hitherto been
sold at a price which only the we'll
TODD could afford, has just been put
on the market at low price and II is
a watch which fills long felt want.
II q watch tells us the hour and the
minute OF tho day, why should not
the same machine tell US the day Of
the week, day OF the month, and month
OF the year? A prominent manufac-
turer has realized the usefulness, II
not the actual necessity OF such a
time-piece, and by simplifying the
mechanism and arranging to turn
them out in large quantities, has, at
ter several years OF work and the ex-
penditure OF large amount OF money,
succeeded in producing watch thor
oughly reliable in every way. This
watch is perpetual calendar as well
as q time-piece, and what Is OF more
interest to the public, is sold at price
but fraction above that OF an ordln-
airy watch of like grade.
<1 ho oy,nnnSif{nn nf the
uninitiated, 1t Is not an Intricate as
sembly of complicated parts, but Is as
simple as any regular time-plece. On
the dial, in addition to the small sec
ond dial, it has three small dials OF
like character, one showing the days
OF the week, another the days OF the
month, while third shows the month
of the year. BY an ingenius attach
ment to one OF the wheels, when the
hour and minute hands show mid
night. the small hands indicating the
days of the week and the days OF the
month, move forward automatically
one day, thus saving the wearer the
necessity of changing the calendar at
tachment, and in consequence the
watch needs no care or attention after
being once correctly set except to be
wound regularly The manufacturers
have been quick to appreciate the
certainty of large demand for this
article in this country and have ar
ranged to market them through DELL
hart Mnfrs. & Traders, Ltd, a promi.
nent New York House who, as on in
| troductory measure will furnish them
| direct to the public. An article that
SO completely fills the want has sell
| dom been seen and has hitherto been
utterly disregarded by manufacturers.
| It can consistently be said that for
usefulness and reliability this Is one
of the most attractive articles in the
| watch line. s.s s..z
An advertisement setting forth the
merits of this watch appears elsewhere
| in these columns. ~
It was before bicycles became SO
popular as they are now that a Yam.
kee farmer was importuned BY q
dealer to buy one for twenty-five dol.
lars .'Id rather spend the money on
| a cow" was the farmers answer
But what an idiot you would look
riding around town on the back OF
cow Perhaps so" replied the far
mer, but not half such an idiot as !
look trying to- milk a. bicycle. "5.5i} +. {
to When Charles Gavan Duffy was q
members Of the. Melbourne parliament
| he declared that the conduct of the
| opposition was worse than Nero's. A
wealthy but ignorant butcher, also q
member of parliament. asked with
scorn and sincerity, "Who was Nero?
"Who was Nero?" replied the delight
! ed chief secretary; "the honorable
gentleman ought to know. Nero was
celebrated Roman butcher"
f. The following statement has been
yariously attributed to Stephen Grel
| let, Sir Rowland Hill, and to Edward
Courtenay and the Earl Of Devon
and is said to have been inscribed
upon the tombstone Of the latter:
Il expect to pass through this worlt
but once. II, therefore, there be any
kindness can show or any goot
thing can do to my fellow being, lei
me do it now. Let me not defer II
nor neglect 1t, for l shall not pass
this way again" =.
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