WHEN YOU BUY A BUGGY 
BE SURE IT HAS THE 
WHEEL 
THE STRONGEST AND BEST WHEEL MADE 
PERSONALS. 
*ns of inattention and careless study that will 
cling to them all through life. The plan sug¬ 
gested in this book is to make lessons seem like 
a story and tasks seem like play. We gladly 
commend the volume to those who have the 
true education of their children at heart. 
FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 
Bismarck says he expects to live three 
years, but to die within seven. 
Cadet Whittaker, whose injured ears were 
the cause of so much controversy at West 
Point a few years ago, is now a member of a 
leading law firm at Charleston, S. C. 
John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, 
grandson of the great nullifier, has the second 
largest cottou field in the United States. He 
was a captain in the Confederate service at 
18. He is now 41. 
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia “magnetic’ 7 
wonder,was married to I'aul M. Atkinson, her 
former manager, the other day. It is said 
she made 8200,000 on the stage and that it has 
doubled while she has been at school since 
her mysterious power left her. 
It is stated that the Czar ol’ Russia secretly 
visited Paris and had a personal interview 
with Presidout Grfivy, a lew weeks ago. He 
traveled in disguise, aceompauied by two at¬ 
tendants and a big dog, and during bis stay in 
Paris Jived in a retired, private house occu¬ 
pied by the Grand Duke Nicholas. 
Farmer J. B. Parker, Kingston, Ky., has 
seveu large monkeys breaking and preparing 
his hemp for market. They do the work 
quicker and better than negroes at one-fourth 
the cost. He has sent for 10 more to his 
brother at Caj>6 Town, Africa, where similar 
monkeys do similar work. Talk of boycotting 
Parkes. 
Cyrus Ciieney, a Litchfield (Conu.) farm¬ 
er, is a tall, well-preserved man of 00, and a 
bachelor. He was a brother-in-law of the 
late Horace Greeley, and is very wealthy. He 
has made a large part of his fortune by buy. 
ing run-down Connecticut farms cheap, re¬ 
storing them to a good condition and selling 
them off at a large advance. 
OF THE 
$ttjs«Uanfou.$ 
Are You Making .Money? 
There Is no reason why you should not make large 
sums of money If you arenble to work. All you need 
Is the right kind or employment or business, Write 
to Halle! & Co,, Portland, Maine, and they will send 
you, free, full Information about work, that you can 
do and live at home, wherever you are located, earn¬ 
ing thereby from <5 to $25 per day, and upwards. 
Capital not required: you are started free. Either sex: 
all uges. Bel ter not delay. 
Amount of Net Cash Assets, January 1, 1886 
REVENUE ACCOUNT 
Premiums... 4 
Less deferred premiums, January 1, i856'. '' ‘‘**''‘' ‘''‘*'‘'' ’' '''' 
Interest-and rente, etc., (Including realized gains on Securities soid).. I 
I .ess Interest aeerued Janury 1, 1HS«..... 
VIRGINIA LAND AGENCY. 
Cheap Kurins. .Splendid climate. Short, Mild Winters. 
Good markets. Descriptive Land List Free. 
GRIFFIN A JERVIS, Petersburg, Va. 
DISBURSEMENT ACCOUNT. 
Losses by death, Including reversionary additions to same. 
F.ndqwniouitt, matured and discounted. Including reversionary additions to sumo 
Dividends, annuities, and purchased policies. 
Total Bald Policy-holders.... ... S 7 .'i 27 . 2 :i 
Taxes and re Insurances... .. .......... 
Commissions, brokerages, agency expenses anil physicians' fees_ .............. 
utTlee and law expenses, salaries, advertising, printing, «c. 
Lower California. 
Johnson's Encyclopedia says. “The climate Is the 
mildest and most equable of which any knowledge 
exists.” Agassiz says. “This Is one of the favored 
spots of the earth, and people will pome from all 
quarters to live in Its genial and healthful atmos¬ 
phere." This fertile peninsula U. for the tlrsi time in 
history, now open to colonists, A hetti r grain, dairy’ 
and ranch district thun any other portion of America, 
and a better fruit country than Elorldu. Everything 
of the temperate and send tropical regions grows 
there, and cattle keep fat the year round. Eor elrcu 
Jars and Information about transportation, apply to 
W. E. WEB it. Luiul Commissioner. HW Broadway, S' Y 
EIGHTY ACHES; 27 miles from New York, one mile 
from depot, at VALLEY COTTAGE, Rockland County, 
N. Y., on the West Shore It. R. 
On account of the death of the late owner. Ibis farm 
will be sold ut a very reasonable price. 
The farm Is In excellent state of cultivation, und is 
known as one of the most productive In this seel ton 
Well arranged Stock ami Hay Partis; Two Orchards* 
never falling Water supplies, and is well adapted for 
any branch of agriculture. 
Apply in person at my residence, half-a mile from 
above It, K. Station; or address 
P. O. BOX 2»l, NYACK, N. Y. 
JOHN K. YLEY, Agent. 
Adjusted losses, due subsequent to January 1,1S87.. 
Reported losses, awaiting proof, etc.-, . . 
Mutured endowments, due and unpaid claims uut presented!. 
Annuities due and unpaid (uncalled fori. 
Reserved for re insurance on existing policies; participating insurance lit "i'per cent'. 
Carlisle net premium: non participating at 5 per cent. Carlisle ret premium.. 
Reserved ror contingent liabilities to Tontine Dividend Fund, January i. 
ts-w oyer and above a 4 per com. Reserve on existing policies of 
that class... .aj. I 2 J 742 . 7 * 
Addition to the Fund during 1826... 1.32U,'o30.6S 
DEDUCT— 14,444 213 41 
Returned to Totine policy holders during the year on matured Tontines .. ''JoNts.# 
Balance of Tontine Fund January 1, 18 S 7 ... 
Reserved for premiums paid in advance. 
STOCKMEN!., ‘Ni'iSA. 
Will be sold at a lmrgaIn-3‘20 Acres deeded land, 
fenced and fully equipped with buildings, Ac . fr.r 
Horse Raising. Ample range for stock for years 
Also 400 bead Western mures and young stock, 1 bn 
ported Norman Stallions. 1 registered Hanibleutnlnn 
stud. Also li.tsil head sheep—all ewes and lambs, well 
breil up by cross of Cotswold and Merino ranis, on 
Ranches (separate from hurse*) fully cqulpiied b,r 
Sheep Industry Good reasons for sellluu. References 
exchanged. Address Box; H, STURGIS. DAK' |TA. 
Divisible Surplus (Company’s Standard) 
co Brown’s Fence Builder. ^ 
L A practical, simple, durable, portable, cheap w 
and valuable FARM IMPLEMENT fur build ^ 
y lug picket fence on the posts where 11 Is to ^ 
“ remain. Heavy wire und strong, heavy pick- 2 
Id ets used, easily operated by a l'.-yar old boy. . 
» Sixty rods maae In a day at a cost of 30 cents 
.••a rod. Agents wanted. 
~ JOHN P. BROWN, m 
^ RISING SI N, IND, O 
surplus by the New York State Standard, at 454 per cent, in¬ 
cluding the Tontine Fuudi... 81 . 5 ,549,319.53 
From the undivided surplus of SS.OSO..»*J7.*JJ the Board of Trustees has declared a Kevlslonarv dividend 
to participating p-llcles In proportion to their contribution to surplus, available 011 settlement of next annual 
premium. 
Death-olHi him paid. Income trout Interest. Insurance in force. f ash Assets. 
Jan. 1, 1883, S17i.415.097. Jan. 1. 1883. 8.70,800,396. 
JSS3, 3,21 >3,092. 1 883, 2,712.863. ** 1881, I!i\7|6,td3. •• 1884, 55 »4i902 
1884, 2,257,1.5. 1884. 2,971,634. “ 1 SS.l. 229,382.586. *• 18,8.1, 59,288,753 
1 88 . 1 , 3,999.109. 18.83, 3.899.069. “ l^S#, 259.(571,500. “ 1886, 6«.8» 4,321. 
1.880, 2,75.,035. 1880, 3,722,502. “ 1887, 364,373,540. “ 1887, 75,421,453. 
_ TRAV EL VIA 
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Cars, Pullman Palace Sleep- 
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Sure connections in Union 
Depots at its terminal points, 
with trains from and to the 
Past, 1 Vest, North and South. 
C Cheapest, Best arid Quickest 
Route from Chicago, Peoria 
or St, Louis to 
DENVER. ST. PAUL, 
SAN FRANCISCO, MINNEAPOLIS. 
OMAHA, PORTLAND, ORE. 
KANSAS CITY. ST. JOSEPH, 
CITY OF MEXICO. ATCHISON. 
For Tickets, Rates, Maps, Ac., apply to Ticket Agents 
of connecting lines, or address 
T. J. POTTER, H. B. STONE, PAUL MORTON, 
1st V. P. a. M. Q. P. & T, A. 
lor handsome Illustrated Burlington Route Guide 
Book send ic. postage to thcU. 1*. <£ T. V., Chicago, 111. 
DWAUD MARTIN, WM. L. STRONG, 
I CHARD MUSER, ALEX STUDWELL, 
FORGE H. !‘t) ITS, HENRY TUCK. 
. C. R VLDW1N. A. H. WELSH, 
JH.N N. STEARNS. 1 ,. L. WHITE. 
WILLIAM H. BEERS, President. 
HENRY TUCK, Vice-President. 
ARCHIBALD H WELSH, 2d Vice-President. 
RUFUS W. WEEKS, Actuary. 
THEODORE M. BANTA, Cashier, 
D. O’DELL, Superintendent of Agencies. 
A. HUNTINGTON, M. D., Medical Director, 
everything_tha T is 
I X ' !tnBtHniB5ia»ft»l - 
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In high state of cultivation and In running order. 
Contains about 800 Acres 313 fall plowed. Good 
Buildings. Full complement of Stock and Machinery 
in excellent condition. Ample Seed Grain. Properly 
within about a mile of Railway Station. Elevators. 
Stores and Church; School house upou 11. Watered 
by a beautiful errek with well wooded banks. A mo¬ 
del Prairie Farm, good plow land, pasture, wood aud 
water, owners. non-rojtdcnl, will sell en bloo or In 
1 wo or more parcels. upon liberal term*. . 
Fur further particulars apply to 
IV. II. G11,LETT. 
P. O. Box *448, Winnipeg, Canada. 
ts offered and Described In our 
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Within three mile* of ALEXANDRIA, LA. 
ICH Soil HkaLTH* CUXATX. 1’vro Railroads. 810 
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1.8. WATERPROOFING FIBRE CO., 56 SOUTH STREET, NEW YORK. 
FARM FOR 8A LR„ 
A 160 Acres Weil-Impruved Farm, In Osage County 
Kansas, for sale cheap. Address the owner, 
JAMES HAN SON, 
Box 139. Oange.City, Kan. 
CAN BE RK.VI.lZKi) BY CHANGING 
Four Per <"«••«( Goveriiiiieui Bonds 
Into b percent. Debentures Capital #C(ti,0iD 
Large reservegunmniee fund. Pamphieis. 
American Isvi -rraKNTI’o , 150Nassau at. N.Y. 
F ll gun runted the “ LOY I'LL WASHE R ” to do better 
. and do it easier aud in less time than any other machine 
3 world. Warranted live years, and if it don’t wash the 
clothes dean without rubbing, we will rofuud the mouey. 
AGENTS WANTEDw.*S “how 
PROOF thnt A^runts Arts tunkinjj from lo 5*150 per 
v month. F/unuws uu\ko $300Jnif' ilmiiMf tho wint*^r. La¬ 
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!S.’b, Sample to thtvbt. d»*sirhi^ hm .t^D'ncy A!>.» tho Cele- 
K:u(on, na. 
LOVELL WASHER CO., ERIE, PA 
