Pliw, 
AN EQUAL DIVISION. 
It’s Christmas to-morrow,” said Captain Jack 
Miller to his steward,” and you may put some 
plums in the cabin duff, but don’t use many, and 
put'era all in one end. I can’t afford to give 
the mate plum-duff. 
“ Plums in the duff to-day, Bteward ?” said the 
mate next morning. 
“ Yes, sir,” said the steward; “ but you won’t 
get none. They're all goin’ in the old naan’s 
end.” 
That day, when the duff came on the table, 
just as the captain was going to help the mate to 
duff, that officer quietly turned the dish, remark¬ 
ing as he did so, “ That’s a curious old ware, 
Captain Miller.” 
“ Yes, said the captain, as ho restored the dish 
to its former position. “ I’ve had that plate for 
a long time.” 
“ May I ask.” said the mate, once more turn¬ 
ing the dish,” “ where you got that plate ?" 
“I think, if I recollect right,” said the captain, 
as be put the blank ond of the pudding toward 
the mate, “that I got it Borne where up the 
Straits.” 
“1 thought,” the mate observed, as he slewed 
the plum end toward him, “that it was not made 
in England. ” 
'•That’ll do, Mi - . Jones,” saicTthe captain; 
that’ll do. Let the dish alone and I'll cut the 
duff fore and aft.” 
OF THE 
Hartford^ Conn,) January 1, 1877. 
ASSETS. 
Real Estate owned by the Company.8 111,428 78 
Cash on hand and In Bank,. lli9,«U2 68 
Loans OU Flrsl MurlicHi'ia Real Estate.2,-68,727 6U 
Appraised value ot same, ^0,Aft,823 
•Aeerued Interest.. 122,340 93 
Deferred Premiums. 63.618 96 
Pi-eMt.iiiii* ciueHfii) unri’ported. 70,214 40 
United Hates Goveruiin nt Bonds. 369, s 70 CO 
State and Municipal Bonds.. 148.817 00 
Railroad Stocks and Bonds.......... 19ft,16S IX) 
Bunk and Insurance Stocks. 602,699 Ou 
Total assets....$4,053,150 ‘24 
LIABILITIES. 
Reserve for re-insurance, Accident Dept.. 4-191.188 62 
Reserve, N. Y. Standard <4R) Life Dep’t. .. 2,306.360 62 
Claims unadjusted and not due, and all 
other liabilities... 110,825 00 
Total liabilities.82,037,804 14 
Surplus, as regards poHcy-ho|derf...181,415.205 10 
Surplus* as above, on four Per oeut. reserve. Mass, 
and Conn, standard, $1,170,854 24. 
SPARES AND SPLINTERS, 
“I never did like mutton with capers,” 
Brown said, as he brushed his clothes after an 
attack from a ratn. 
Church fairs are good things. They teach a 
man how to preserve a look of deep humility 
while paying out two (lollurn of his hard-earned 
money for a ton-cent pin-cushion. 
When a man has been laid up for three weeks 
with a broken leg, and the landlord begins to 
talk about the rent, nothing cheers him so much 
as to send a note to a friend staling his troubles, 
and receive a reply to the effect that the latter 
will come in in the course of tho day and road a 
chapter from the Testament to him. 
A female justice of the peace of Wyoming 
Territory was married last week, and previously 
notified her friends to he present by a printed 
form as follows: “ I am about to marry Mr. 
J.-1>-, of thin county, and he will be qual¬ 
ified and sworn in at my office on Wednesday 
morning next at 10 o'clock. You aro invited to 
attend.” 
One of our citizens paid his first visit to Ni¬ 
agara, a few dayB ago. Ho stopped over a train, 
and was escorted around by a bookman. He was 
first shown tho Canada J'alls, and admired 
them. Then the bookman proceeded further. 
“This is the Horseshoe Fall,” ho said. The 
Danbury inan looked at it. “That’s pretty 
good,” ho observed: “but I want to see Ni¬ 
agara. n 
When he invited lior to marry him. she gazed 
into his face and tenderly inquired if he knew 
what a costly tiling ho asked for—a woman’s life, 
a woman’s wondrous love. Four months after 
the wedding ho climbed through the scuttle on 
to the roof, and when a neighbor came with a 
ladder to take him down, he put it to him, as a 
fellow creatin e, whether it wasn’t a man's duty 
to run when a woman rose up after him w ,; th a 
hot tea kettlo in her hand. 
I)r. Louis, of New - Orleans, who is something 
of a wag, called on a Baptist minister, and pro¬ 
pounded a few puzzling questions. “ Whyisit,” 
said he, ‘ ‘ that you are not able to do the miracloB 
that the apostles did? They were protected 
against oil poisons and all kinds of perils. How 
is it that you aro not protected in tho same way ?” 
The colored brother responded, promptly, 
“ Don’t know about that, doctor; I s’poct 1 is. 
I’vot'ken ft mighty sight of strong medioine 
from you, doctor, and 1 is alive yet.” 
“FAST BIND, FAST FIND!”-NOT ALWAYS. 
Bank Director to Depositor. — “ What could be more secure than those bolts and locks 
StatlHticfc of tho Year 1870. 
% life Department. 
Number of Life Policies written in 1876.2,422 
Whole number Lire Policies written to date.25,964 
Whole number of Life Policies lu force ... 111,833 
Totsl amount Insured. 318.140,391.00 
Not doorcase In amount in hu roil.. .*22.723.00 
Total Claim* Paid In Life Peparim’t.8908,888.55 
Accident Department. 
Number of Accident Policies written In '76..39,01 3 
Cash Premiums recM for same- 9.67 7.445.28 
Gulu in Premiums over 1S76.$89,405.74 
Gain in Policies written over 1876.... 11.750 
Whole number Accident Policies written, ,435,777 
Number Accident Claims paid in 1876......2.621 
Amount Accident* bums paid In 1876.8277.093.42 
Whole no ruber Accident Claims Paid.._25.876 
Wliolo amount Aeo’l Claims, Raid. .82,560,831.21 
END TO JAMES BRAY LEV, Btmw, N. V., for Descriptive 
1 Prlc. List of Buffalo I’ltta Thresher, *uj Hurts Power*. 
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Monthly IHstazinei. 
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Toronto Globe.. 4 to 400 
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P. O. Box No. 6712. 34 Barclay St, New York. 
TEAS and COFFEES 
AT WHOLESALE PRICES 
In Lots to Suit Customers. 
SPECIAL TEEMS TO CLUB 0BGANIZEBS 
and those who devote whole or part of time 
in selling our goods. 
SEND FOR NEW PRICE-LIST. 
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMP’Y, 
(P. O. Box 5643.) 31 and 33 Vescy St., New York. 
$ I 0 © $0 C 0 day sure made by Agents sellingour 
5 U ° *Zb Chromes. Crayons. Piclure A Chromo 
Cards. 125 samples, worth Sfi.aent, 
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