SELLS TIME FOR A LIVING woman furnishes greenwich cornec eions to london firms london A woman selling time for a living Is one of the curious phases of the eking out of livelihoods liveli hoods in lon don the woman Is th alv daughter ot of a mrs belleville who m ho inherited the bubl bubi ness from her father and transmitted it to her successor living at maiden head bead miss delleville belleville sas sacs the idea wa was suggested to her father in 1835 by mi pond the then astronomer loyal ile he acted on it and by taking around a concoct chronometer to the chief clock and watch makers he secured an in come of about 2600 2500 when he died in 1856 his widow was granted the privilege of having the chronometer corrected at gheen whenever she liked and she car ried on the business until 1892 when she had reached the age of 81 years she handed the business ss avei ov ei to the daughter and miss dell belleville ville has car tied ried it on ever since by permission of the astronomer royal she has about 40 customers in vart vari ous nus parts of if loridon london including many important and old established firms miss belleville goes from malden maiden head bead to greenwich every monday morning and has haa her chronometer cor erected S she lie receives s an official docu ment stating that her chronometer chion ometer daf dt fers from mean time by so many see sec ands and tenths and her customers correct their times accordingly the famous chronometer was made in 1835 by arnold a prince among watchmakers tor for the duke of sussex one of the sons of george ill III but the duke discarded it because it was too clumsy and mr belleville purchased it mr belleville substituted a silver case for or the original gold one because his curious profession took him occa signally Blo sio nally nto into the less lees desirable of the to town n