Life — March 2, 1899 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Cabby: DO WE CAREFUL, MOUSTACHE. — Moonshine. SIR, OR YOU'LL BURN YOUR POINTS ABOUT TELEPHONE SERVICE Telephon best equ station b to the € ground li private reside subscribers in New York have the use of the ped telephone system in the world. Every 3 a long distance teleph: and is connected ntral Office by a direct: me The rates vary with th ces and stabl allic cireuit: under- amount of use, In * the use of the service is not ‘onsequently the cost is small, is immeasurable. The tele service puts the whole organization of a great clty at your day and night. but the con- hon gers’ ends, a1 for contemporaneous art than Lire, wh any years has stood at the very head of humorous pertodicals in this and other countries, and tt fs no smal! compliment to have illustrations accepted by the critteal editor. Lire is very strict,also, in the matter of reprodneing Mostrations from {ts pages, and spectal permission had first to be ained before the Hlustration al e could be re: produced even tn the Com Other papers cannot, therefore, use the pict Cincinnati Comme Tnere Is no higher tril bh for so cint Tribune ure. A VALUABLE BOOK. “ INpast Heattu” sent out hy the N.Y. Condensed Milk Company, New York, proprietors of the Gail Itorden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. It isa valuable book that should be in every home : “ Wuat are pauses?" the teacher asked the first class fa grammar. “Things that grows on cuts and dogs, smallest girl.—#rchange. answered the HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON, ‘The Ideal hotel of Amertea for permanent or transtent guests, Tux Chicago Most asserts that “If sou see it tu the New York Sun it is not even so-so any longer—in the dramatic columns, at least, it is pretty certain to be misrepresentation,” and further on tn the same article it say Sun bas been notortously inaccurate, prejudiced and trammeled fn Its dramatic columns for three or four years past.” This ts hard on the Sun, and Sun's theatrical department, Of cou have especial factiitles for sizing up the remarkabie dr columns of our spotted and hybrid Iuminary, but isi curtous that a journal paldished away off in Ch be able to set stich an estimate upon t tution tn question? There are some things we should like to hide fr Mew of other communities, but it se icularty severe on the we In New York not should ¢ vagaries of the instt- m the 10 be Imposathle —Dramatic Mirror. WHO IS SMART "*? Onur old-fashioned word “smart” Is the rage Just now In France, and excites the discussion of the press. Not any more than for the word “snob” can they define Its exact signification. We, however, are not mistaken when we say that a woman who has chosen as her perfume the Funkia dn Japon of Oriza-Legrand Is really @ “smart woman,” atic | THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY The Annual Statement of The Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany of New York, showing the business transacted by that Company for the year ending 1898, shows an amazing growth. The assets were Increased $23,730,887 and the touil sum bow held hy this institution for the security of its policy-helders Is $2 525. The Mutua Life, after placing, $233,058,640 to | the eredit of the reserve fund tn accordance with t tre me the New York tnsttrance Department, has a rematn: | Ing surplus of $44,458,084. ‘The surplus shows a growth for the year atounting to 0,490, from which dividends are apportioned. In 1898 the claiins pad artsing from the deaths of poitey- holders amounted to $13.21 ition to this the Company pald during the twelve months $11,485,751 on ac. punt of endowments, dividends, ete. The general busin the The Mutual Life in 1808, when compared with the previous year, Is highly satisfactory. The ¢ December 31,1897, amounted to $85,002,381 SH. 1898, the business in force ag 935, which 1s unequal pany inthe world, Since its organtzatt Life Insurance Company of New York has patd to its poltey holders $487,748,910, Te its niber amount 070.4 “Titave just read that the custom of kissing is unknown to the Flipinos.” “Is that why Hobson was ordered to Manila? 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