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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2502, 6 September 1890, Page 8

Tv'ATCH LITER A 1 L ilil. A IN Did the reader ever stop to think what an impression the Waterburv Watch has made upon the literature of our times V How frequently it has furnished a joke or i urny squib tor tiie newspaper - How often it has been written up'in periodica Is as a useful and desirable acquisition, if not exactly “ a thing of beauty and joy for ever?” If not, all he has to do is to let his mind dwvil upon tllC subject fora f« w moments, and he will recall paragraph after paragraph which ha 3 gone the rounds, net excepting that account of the traveller in a Baltimore car whose curiosity was so great that he pried into the interior of Ida “ Waterbury” with his knife, thereby releasing a spring which, boa-constrictor fashion, w< ut squirming through the car, throwing down passengers and doing all sorts of tumble things, until it finally tripped up the horses and charged upon a policeman with disastrous consequences to the ‘'minion of the law,” as the Chicago {socialists express it. And perhaps lie will recull accounts of lishea caught with “ Waterburys” safely stowed away in their internal economics, and the marvellous telegrams on festive occasions from Presidents and other dignities of the United States to the .London agents of the watcli. And this state of things is continuing, and is likely to carry the name of the Brass Cifcv (\Vaterbury, Conn.) to the uttermost end's of the earth, and transmitting it to ages yet unLorn through the bookshelves of libraries. For instance, m the September instalment in Haki*eit3 Magazine of Wiiliam l)ean Howell’s r- markable story, “ April Hopes,” wo coma upon this passage, “ Board man lifted Ilia head lurvously from the pillow.” ** Oh, I’ll put them on the bed it you’re so punctilious!” cried Mavering. “I don’t mind (ha clothes,” said Bear dm an. “ I thought I heard my watch knock on the floor in my vest pocket; just take :t out, will you, and see if you’ve stopped it?” ‘•Oh, confound your old‘Waterbury? all the world’s stopped. Why shouldn’t your watch slop too?” Mavering tugged it out of the pocket, and then shoved it back disdainfully. “ You couldn’t stop that thing with anything short of a sledge hammer. It "a rattling ‘like a mowing machine.” And the Omaha J1 r orM, under the caption of ‘‘Getting Heady for the journey,” has this to saj :—The President: “JDuniel, I wish you would go out and buy me a Wuterbury Wutch; get ©no for about two ilollars?” Daniel: ‘* Yes, sire.” “And, by the way, take n*v watch with you, and deposit it in my box in the bauk vault.” “ Yes, sire ; is that all?” “That’s all, except on your way back you might drop into the railroad office, and ask what time the train startß for Missouri.” The subject is not one to be dismissed with a laugh. There is food for solid thought in the fame wh’ch this product of one of Waterbary's great and marvellous manufactories has brought to this community. Long life to the Waterbury watch, and may ita spring never be shortened, except us by shortening it bettor results are obtained for the same or less m-.-nev. JVatn - The marvellous Vvatoroury may oa obtained Iroin any respectable storekeepers or dealers. I rice, Series E, 13s. Gd.; Senes Jor L, 20s. WATERBUHY W ATCH CO.’S REPAIR. DEPOTS, 6 115 Elizabeth street, Melbourne.