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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8794, 2 May 1890, Page 3

-y AI N REGRETS. Towards the close of life —no matter how virtuously that life may have been spent— regrets of greater or less intensity are experienced by all. It may be for what we did, or it may be for what we have left undone, but the bitterness of despair can only be realised by those who neglected to prolong their lives, protect their credit, and add to the happiness of all around them by an intelligent use of St. Jacobs oil. THE DOWNFALL OF A HUMBUG. The'day of the " cheap Swiss Watch " has gone by. It is ill-fitting, roughly made, not interchangeable, and when once out of order, rarely, if ever, susceptible of satisfactory repairs. The country has been flooded with those implements, but gigantic as this importation has been, they must yield to the superior merits of American watches. The very first watch produced by the Waterbury Watch Company sounded the death knell of the Swiss atrocities. In 18S9 the battle had been won, and the days of unreliable timepieces practically numbered. The modern David of American genius and accuracy has, by force of intrinsic merit, caused the downfall of the Swiss Philistine of cheap horological humbug. 3