Life — January 31, 1884 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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LIFE WALL PAPER. Decorate and Beautify your Homes, Offices, &c. QUAINT, RARE AND CurRIOUS PAPERS BY EMINENT DECORATIVE ARTISTS, Close Figures given on Large Contracts, If youintend to sell your house, paper it, as it will bring from $2000 to $3000 more after having been Papered. Samples and Book on Decorations mailed free. H. BARTHOLOMAE & CO., MAKERS AND IMPORTERS, 124 & 126 W. 33D Sr., (near B’way,) N. Y. Artistic Presents. Messrs. M. KNOEDLER & CoO. invite attention to their fine collection of Modern Oil Paintings, Water Color Drawings, Engravings, and other art products suitable for Holiday presents. The list of paintings comprises the works of all the best known artists of the day. Gourit GALLery, OPEN EVENINGS. | Net assets, Dec. 31, 1882. 347™! ANNUAL REPORT. MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE CoO., 156 AND 158 BROADWAY, N. Y. $10,265,632 60 INCOME FOR THE YEAR 1883. Premiums received... $1,008,421 55 Interest reesived on mortgage loans... Interest received on bonds own= ed by company... Interest received ‘on other se- curities, rents, &c. Add interest and re accrued 170,516 29 495790 09 407,323 35 96,994 27 131,921 64 St 215,764 84 ——— __ 2,080,729 94 -$12,346,362 54 DISBURSEMENTS. Paid claims by death, matured endowments and payment of $823,012 06 236,122 47 pad divitents. polici 137,866 29 Paid salaries, office, agency, real estate, and other expense: 438,347 12 Taxes.....00050 Medical department. Commissions and advertisin, 4,475,178 31 Balance .. 10,871,184 23 Cash on hand. Cash in bank and trust company. Bonds and mortgages secured by real estate worth double the amount loaned, and pro- tected by fire insurance policies held by the company. 2,781,162 76 Loans on polic 1,286,745 76 (The legal reserve on the policies on’ which loans exist exceeds the amount of note on the same.) $3,935 93 557,81 32 | United States and New York State Stocks, market value... Real estate at cost. Quarterly and se ferred, and premium an of collection and transmi Loans on stocks and bond (Market value of the securities, Interest due and accrued and all other prop 1,392,810 00 ‘962,805 94 premiums “dee t 131,921 64 31656,906 6r 96,994 27 Gross assets ...4..++ $10,871,184 23 Adjusted claims not yet due... Reported claims awaiting proof, 77,760 00 $101,382 00 87,752 64 timated by the New York rule.8,214,739 00 ——"— 8,481,633 64 Surplus by above rule... $2,389,550 59 HENRY STOKES, President. J. L. HALSEY, First Vice-President. H. B. STOKES, Second Vice-President. H. Y. WEMPLE, Secreta S. N. STEBBINS, Actuary. ~ CHAMPAGNES Boucue Firs ‘& Company, WINE GROWERS, MAREUIL SUR-AY (Champagne). BRANCH HOUSES: 23 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris ; 37 Beaver Street, New York. Are now shipping their Cuvees of 1878 Wines, the quality of which will make them rank among the finest ever imported into the United States. MAXIMUM, Very Dry. NAPOLEON’S CABINET, Extra Dry. DRY VERZENAY. For SALE BY ALL THE BesT WINE MERCHANTS AND GROCERS THROUGHOUT THE STATES, PRESS OF GILLISS BROTHERS, 75 & 77 FULTON STREET, N. Y. United States Mutual ACCIDENT Association, 320 Broadway, NT PLACE IT IN YOUR SAFE, Invest $10 for $10,000 Accident Policy wit) $50 Weekly Indemnity in the UNITED States MuTuAL AccIDENT A. SOCIATION, 320 and 322 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, and place it in your safe. Twenty-six dollars year will carry this insurance and should misfor tune overtake you in the way of fatal or disabling injury, there will never be cause to regret you! forethought and prudence. European permit without extra charge. LENOX PENS. A COMPLETE SERIES IN ‘Twelve NUMBERS From which every writer can select THE BEST PEN For his or her peculiar style of Penmanship. Sold by stationers ; or sent by mail, in gross boxes, postpaid, for $1.00 per gross, A TRIAL TRIP.—To enable you to test all the numbers of the series, we will send a compartment! box containing one gross of Lenox Pens,—assorted, twelve each of the twelve numbers (144 pens), by mail, post-paid for $1.00, or a handsome nickle-plated, covered case containing two of each number (24 pens for twenty-five cents. TAINTOR BROS., MERRILL & CO., 18 & 20 Astor Place, New York City. comicbooks.com