| Show AH AliT KEEP TUB THE SAME TIME Discussion and controversy have broken out regarding the why ihy dummy watches point to You will notice as you pass laes along the street that very many of the Jewelers have these dummy clocks chocks or watches In front of their shops In Irm nearly every instance it will be found that the time they Cats Je s eighteen and a half minutes past eight this timis time rather than timan any other This Thu Ic It the question now being die dis discussed cussed One remarkable explanation la Is lathat that this Is time the timo at which AUra Abra ham Lincoln died In Iii order to mark their appreciation of time the passing of the rent President It Is said time the Jewelers made It a fixed axed rule to Cain the exact time on all their dummy clocks A more reasonable explanation than this however line has been offered by a leading firm of watchmakers in this city who trace the custom buck back to 1819 1119 says time tho Chicago when time the founder of their house first started It He lie decided It Is said upon eighteen and amid a half minutes past eight after finding that lint It was the only time timmie when triton the two hands hand of the clock formed a perfect angle with time the perpendicular At eight eighteen and nd a halt half minutes the minute and hour hands on opposite sides of the thic dial are arc exactly eighteen and a half minute degrees train from time the top of time the dial or figure 12 says thIs thin firm It must be remembered that while time the hour hand makes time the whole circumference of the he dial once In twelve hours the minute hand goes round around a twelve times therefore the movement of at time the hour hand one minute deree necessitates thi movement of the minute hand minutes Of course the hands may be reversed mak making tog ing the time We may say nay that any painter who desired desire to find time the per perfect oct angle would readily while at lila his work discover the exact position to paint time the hands Any person can test these facts by his watch |
