Life — September 11, 1884 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“ONLY.” “ Only" a scrap of peel in the street, But it threw the gentleman off his feet. “ Only "a turn on a cobble stone, But it sprained an ankle and fractured a bone. “ Only” a brick from the scaffold on high, But it cracked the skull of the passer by. “ Only" a slip while descending the stair, But on crutches he goes to his table fare. “Only " five dollars membership fee— But it pays to be one of the members, you sce. An Accident Policy’s just the thing, Which Fifty Dollars a week will bring, On the U. S. Mutual Accident plan, To any disabled and suffering man Whois wiseintime! Better write to-day To the office, Three Hundred and Twenty Broadway. Membership Fee, $s. Annual Cost about $12 for $5,000 Accident Insurance, with $25 Weekly Indemnity. $10, Insurance, with $50 Weekly Indemnity, at corresponding rates. HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER. Write for Circular and Application Blank, and when received fil out your application, inclose $5 and forward it to the Secretary at New York, on receipt of which a policy will be promptly mailed to you. The United States Mutual Accident Association, 320 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CHAS. B. PEET (of Rogers, Peet & Co.), Pees'r. JAMES R. PITCHER, Secketany, YOU SLEEP? NSOMNIA, the great curse of the American people, is the direct result of Nervous Exhaustion, consequent upon Overwork, Worry, and Mental Strain. The common recourse of the sufferer, is to Opium,.Morphine, Chloral, Valerian, Phosphorus, and other drugs whose continued use is fatal. VERVE contains none of these substances. It is purely vegetable, acts directly upon the exhausted nerve centres, and by its tonic action, produces a healthful, natural sleep, with no after effects. Two or three bottles have cured permanently cases of Insomnia, of months’ standing. In Neuralgia, Nervous Irritability, Headache, Mental Depression, Hysteria, Loss of Energy following overwork or continued excitement, and all diseases of the Nervous system it is of inestimable value. Merchants and Business men, Clergymen, Lawyers, Authors, and all persons subject to long-continued mental labor, will find natural sleep easily at hand with this remedy in their possession. Order only from reliable druggists, or direct, enclosing $1, from the VERVE DEPOT, 65 West 33rd Street, New York. SOLE AGENTS FOR U. S. AND CANADA. AMUSEMENTS. | Send one, two, three or five dol qlars for a retail express, of the Test Candies ta the world, put andsome boxes. All strictly pure. Suitable for presents, Try it once. C.F.GUNTHER, Confectioner, bor, bi up tn EDEN Musee. 3, WEST 23D ST. SPLENDID BUILDING, Wonderful Tableaux—Historic Groups—Men of all Times — Art and Screace — Chamber of Horrors — Trip Round the World in 6c0 Stereoscopic Views—Dioramas, Musee open from 11 A.M, to 11 P.M, Sundays from r tom P.M, Concerts in the Winter Garden from 2 to s.and 8 to 11. Admission to all, so cents. Children, a5 cents, Address, 78 Mapisow St., Cuicaco. “VIENNA” ICED COFFEE. DELICIOUS. SERVED ONLY AT Common Sense Lunch Room, 135 Broapway (cor. Cedar St.), ——COMMON SENSE BINDER—— FOR BINDING T “LIFE: Bepiand Inky Pencd fo Cheap, Strong and Durable, ost ph Will hold 26 numbers. Mailed to any part of the United States for $1. Address, office of * LIFE,” 1155 Broapway, N.Y. AMERICAN PHOTO- VANDEWATER & ypoMetart Pai eefarged,