JULY 24 
8PABKS AM) SPLINTERS. 
Onk man can hang a jury. 
A coitN exchange The office of a chiropodist. 
tv jury trials all verdicts are rendered per 
Jury. 
Anciknt Grangers -The Mower -bites and 
Sythe-iattB. 
A tea that should never be watered or adulte¬ 
rated—Charity. 
What the Vassar girls like best and eat often- 
est—A good eel. 
" Eight years this Spring ” is about as old as 
a horse gets to be. 
At a recent spelling match one man spelt it 
“ pasnip,” artd got beet. 
Is there any connection between a pen-and- 
ink war and a paper-mill? 
“What is the Blarney stone?” We believe it 
is the same as the Sham rock. 
Lawyers should work for tailors. They are 
always ready to bring a new suit. 
A new definition for an old maid is—a woman 
that has been made for a long time. 
The right sort of thing to have during the 
hot wheather—a cool thousand or two. 
An old toper Bays if there is anything which 
will make his mouth water, he does not wish to 
see it. 
Black Hills motto:- “For what Is a man 
profited If he gain all the gold and lose his own 
scalp ?" 
The man who called the striped croquet 
stockings “ barber polo hose ” has had bis hair 
pulled. 
Wp. suppose that there is quite as large an 
amount of craft upon the land as there is upon 
the water. 
Wnv is a drunkard like a bad politician ? Be¬ 
cause he is always poking liis nose into meas¬ 
ures that spoil the constitution. 
Wiiat Is the difference between the death of a 
barber and a sculptor? One curls up and dyes ; 
the other makes laces and busts. 
A cherrv, incompletely ripe. 
Ills little business did for aim. 
Ami now, serenely free from gripe. 
Ho Is a bob-tailed cherubim. 
Take away my first letter, take away my 
second letter, take away all my letters, and I 
am still the same—The postman. 
Why would a Frenchman say that an inferior 
singer at the ojH'ra was an Indecent character? 
Because he la always in dc chorus. 
Speaking of railroads a wag remarked that 
they are now built of three guages, viz : Broad 
gauge, narrow guauge and mortgage. 
This Is Josh Billings' epitaph on a friend : 
Here lies John Ferguson, Esq., died wortii half 
a million loss the Kingdom of Heaven. 
What should be the name of a lawyer’s wife ? 
Sue. A printer's wife? Em. A druggist's wife ? 
Ann Eliza. A carpet man's wife ? Mat-tie. 
It was Sydney Smith who retorted upon some 
ono who had called him an every-day man. 
“ Well if I am an every-day man you urea weak 
one.” 
“ Is this the Adam House?'' asked a stranger 
of a Bostonian, " Yea; ” was the reply; “ it’s 
OOD SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OP THE 
i.) TIC A V SC I, SC It S INSI HANOI-. CO. 
Hartpori>, Conn., July i, tS75. 
assets. 
Heal Estate owned by the Company.$ 7«,si;i 24 
Cash ijO hand and In Bank. 115,423 33 
Cash in bunds ef Agents, or In transmission. 90,132 74 
Loans on First Mortgages Heal Estate.1,824,977 50 
Deferred Premiums. 71,944 (15 
Accrued Interest. 70.9(5 95 
United States Government Bonds.. 5S0.74U 00 
State and Municipal Bonds.. 1 l«,835 00 
Railroad Stocks and Bonds. 179.8(0 00 
Bank and Insurance Stocks. 500,720 00 
Bills Receivable. 40,000 CO 
Total assets .83,470,319 86 
LI ABILITIES. 
Reserve, four percent.,Life Department.12.11 M20 55 
Reserve for re-insurance, Accident Dept. 180,003 18 
Claims unadjusted and not due, and ull 
other llnblfitleu. 100,034 95 
Total liabilities—.. 94,454^002 68 
Surplus, ns regards policy-holder*..# I ,U 18,357 18 
Surplus as above, on four and one-half per cent, re¬ 
serve, N. V. standard, 81 .‘.‘MS, 11»!> 73. 
-A. SLIGHT JVEISLTlNTIDHHtST AJNTJDIISra-. 
Teuton .—“Vill you gif me ‘.ome clings to make well my friend’s hoarse cold !” 
Dr. Squill* (indignantly )—“For your friend’s horse colt! Go to a veterinarian Sir! 
We do not prescribe for horses !” 
JAS. B ATTIC I! SOX j President 
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. 
JOHN E. MORRIS, Ass’t Secretary. 
New York Office, 207 Broadway. 
(C1RCTTT.AR.) 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church Street, 
P. O. Box 5,500. New York City. 
This iga combination of capitalists to sunply the 
consumers of Teas throughout the United States on 
the mutual principle. 
We have experienced agents in all the best dis¬ 
tricts of China and Japan to select Teas especially 
for our trade. 
Wc expect every consumer ol Teas 'orender us ad 
the assistance they cun In carrying out our enter- 
prBeTas we make a specialty of SUPPLYING coN. 
SUM EltS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make 
any profit on our importations), wnieh will enable 
us to supply I hem with Tens at prices lower tliau 
have ever been known, and of those line qualities 
thi t seldom roach the interior, being sold only to 
the large cities and among the very wealthy. 
Hoping the consumer will lake an interest in out 
enterprise, aud send at once for a circular with full 
explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, 
we remain, 
Most respectfully yotirs, 
Consumers Importing Tea Co., 
No. 8 Church St„ 
I*. O. Box 5,5119. New York City. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In January, 
1874, by the Consumers Importing Tea Co., in the 
Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
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