Life — January 6, 1898 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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TEN MILLIONS, The American Waltham Watch Company has just commenced to make the watch movement num- pered 10,000,000, It will be nearly a year before No. 10,000,000 on the market, for the making of a. Waltham Watch means a good deal more than material and jewels. The brains of the watch- making industry are employed at Waltham. Few persons realize how high a form of mechanical skill s required in the making and putting together and adjusting of the parts of a Waltham Watch. It is this same skilland ingenuity that has made these watches preéminent in the markets of the world, and that has given the American Waltham Watch Company utlet for its enormous product i past fifty years, Itis a fact that ticking away ‘over the globe there are more Waltham Watches than all other American watches combined, There is no finer or more distinctive American industry than watch-making. It should be a source of pride to every good American that in the furthest corners of the globe one is sure to find Waltham Watches. THE INOCULATION CURE. First they’pumped him full of virus from some mediocre cow, Lest the smallpox might assail him, and leave pit- marks on his brow; ‘Then one day a bulldog bit him—he was gunning down at Quogue— And they filled his veins in Paris with an extract of mad dog; Then he caught tuberculosis, so they took him to Berlin, And injected half a gallon of bacilli into hir Well, his friends were all delighted at the quickness of the cure, Till he caught the typhoid fever, and a speedy death was sure; Then| the doctors with some sewage did inoculate hen, And{injectel half its gastric juice into his abdomen; But soon as he recovered, as of course he had to do, ‘There came along a rattlesnake and bit his thumb in two; Once again his veins were opened to receive about a gill Of some serpentine solution with the venom in it still; ‘To prepare him for a voyage iplanl Asiatic sea, New blood was pumped into him from a leprous old Chinee; Soon his appetite had vanished, and he could not eat at all; So the virus of dyspepsia was injected in the fall; But his blood was so diluted by the remedies he'd taken, One day he laid him down and died, and never did awaken; With the Brown-Sequard elixir though they tried resuscitation, He never showed a symptom of reviving animation; Yet his doctor still could save him (he persistently maintains), If he only could inject a little life into his veins, —Puck. ROYAL SERVICE TO FLORIDA. The Pennsylvania, Southern F.C. & P., Florida East Coast Railways offer the most perfect service New York to Florida. In addition to the two limited trains now in operation, leaving New York 4.20 p, m and 12.10.a, m. daily with through sleeping-car. ser- vice to Charlotte, N. C., commencing January 17, the Florida Limited will be resumed, leaving New York 12.10 noon, reaching St Augustine the following day for lunch,’ For further particulars address New York offices, 271 and 833 Broadway. Ware Sherman was “out in the air™ between Atlanta and the sea, rations sometimes got a little short; but the men were good-natured about it, One day an officer found a soldier eating a per- simmon that he had picked up, and cried out to him, * Don't eat that; it’snot good for you!” “I'm not eatin’ it because it’s good," was the reply; * I'm tryin’ to pucker up my stomach so as to fit the size of the rations Uncle Billy Sherman's a-givin’ us."—Argonaut, The new SOMMER building now in course of erection, southwest corner of ‘Fifth Avenue and ‘Twenty-second Street, will be ready for occupancy on or about the first of next February, when the well-known Piano Manufacturers of that name, who have been located for the past twenty-five years at 149 to 183 East 14th Street, will occupy the ground and lower floor for their warerooms.’ This move will accommodate their large uptown trade, making ac- cess more convenient, being centrally located and readily accessible by all surface and elevated lines. A full line of their celebrated manufacture will be constantly on exhibition. Formerly favorably known, for 50 years, as the original Monongahela Monogram. Sharpens razors quickest and best because of pecul- far construction, Made of elk hide and tanned by special process, hones and strops at same time, gives an ideal edge, keeps razors in condition all the time. Barbers will quickly sce its wonderful properties. Sent for One Dollar. Delivered anywhere in the United States. NEW ENGLAND LEATHER CO. sexve: 33 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Send eaah or Post-Office order to Capstan Those Fine English Tobaccos sira's i. Westward Ho rat op ty W. D. & H. O. WILLS 2 Better. Enstana. ‘Three Castles ‘and famous the world over for thetr superb flavor and exquisite aroma, can . Gold Flake,eto. be obtained for you by your dealer. J. W. SURBRUG, Sole Agent, 159 Fulton Street, NEW YORK. Framed Proofs of Originals -LIFE - WHAT SHALL ! GIVE? 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