Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-19

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stables, which are frescoed and tiled
after the fashion of church, and
cost more money than any but a few
churches in even this extravagantlv-
adorned with ecclesiastical edifces
city, he goes in a steel-clad coupe.
What cheerful life! A son who
dwells in modern imitation of a
famous French chateau, with spires
and wingle-wangles like mince pie
ornamented with pepper castors, is
being routed out of his abode by evil
swells. The architects have been
experimenting with wood saturated
with creosote to make it last, as we'll
as with windows filed with the latest
great thing in stained glass, so that
one can't see to eat ones breakfast
without artificial light, and the results
are not agreeable.
Ninety-eight million dollars is the
amount set forth as its belongings by
the great Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York in their au-
nual statement this year. What a
security for the insured And what
sagacity in management is evidenced
by such prosperity! The statement
is indeed interesting reading, and
gives an inside view of the workings
of one of the greatest and most be-
neficent institutions of our day.
Persons whose lives are not already
insured will find it hard to resist the
eloquence of the statistics. Among
it's scientifically boiled-down facts we
note that the rates are Is per cent.
lower than those of and other solvent
company, and from the surplus of
ST., 100000 policy-holders receive a
dividend. When the great flank
movement of reduction of rates was
made in 1879 there was terrible out
cry, but the wisdom of that change
is but another proof of the great gen.
Jus of President Winston, whose
ability and probity have done so
much to make the Mutual the great
| est success in life insurance the world
| has ever known. In 1882 nearly
S13, 100000 was paid out to policy
holders 1t is indeed a wonderful
company. Its admirable manage
ment, it's conservatism, its great re-
sources, and its promptness and lib
crafty in settling claims on presenta-
ton make the Mutual the most desir-
able for the thrifty to insure in, and
by its carefully selected lives it gives
a security that, by removing worry
from the heart of the toiler as to the
future of his family, it really tends
to lengthen lives. In fact, a policy
in this company is as good as snug
bank account, something every sen.
sible man would feel better for, anC
it seems as if every sensible mar
would soonsr or later join the grea
institution.
Some amusement has been created
by some remarkable advertising dod
ges lately. Rival clothiers have beer
getting up gift enterprises, with priz
es worth hundreds of dollars, to b.
obtained not by lottery, which woulc
be against the law, but by guessing
One had it so that whoever guessed
at the number of customers in linn
, tied time another arranged to rewar,
the guesser of the right contents of
bowl of beans. The winners seer
all to be gentlemen of the Chatham
street persuasion, which leads tn
public to think the whole affair is Gu
and dried like the beans themselves.
f Some wicked wags put up nea
+ little job ON some advertising quack
from a city in this State. They &C
up grand competition for puffs
, Some of our best known writers
including three of Bonner's staff, wei
in for the prizes, putting in what wa
E really most excellent work, after
9 sociable gathering, but, as might hav
h been expected, the prizes were dis
a tributed according to a printed eli
cular which bears ear marks of havin
+ been printed before the day appoin
" ed for the alleged examination
. parties, who are unknown to fam
e but who on investigation seem
. have borne somewhat intimate rel
g tionship with the quacks. One wi
Il modestly gets the second prize in oil
competition, and the third in anoth
= aggregating more than any one ell
, in alleged cash, halls from regul
# advertising den in Park Row, whe
Il the most notorious of all pill vendo
> has his unsavory office. Of cours
,f the rascals stipulated that no man
- scripts should he returned, and tn
,t they might use any that didn't 9
n prizes on payment, but the little j
~ put up was the copyrighting of sol
o of these efforts, and if, after public
" rejecting them, they now use a
Of without payment in some obscure OF
es of-town papers, the quacks will pro
:, ably tumble into no little hot wat,
:, The grammar of the circular motif
r. ing the applicants is lovely. 1t see
- I" there aUds received 81 sets" of al
NO wers to one announcement, and 81
eral of the essays which didn't s
prizes "has been accepted for pr
lication.'
Thirty or forty of our chiefs
police, with about four times
mt MANY UupStS some of them uSua