Life — May 25, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Bear: w¥.t, APTRR U'VE EATEN TUAT FELLOW V'LL MAKE MYSELF SCARCE. NOT THAT I'M SUPERSTITIOUS, BUT 1 DO BELIEVE IN SIONS. has builded is evidenced in the mammoth proportions which the —— has attained, with its assets of over $—,000,000 and surplus of over $—,000,000, far outstripping all other like organizations, and holding the first place as the strongest life insurance company in the world.” It is a great thing to have one's merits set forth exactly in figures for convenience of reference. Doubtful. AYING TELLER: You'll have to be identified, madame, before I can let you have the money on that check, “ But this is my husband’s check.” “Very true, But how do I know you are his wife ?” Distingutshed author: 80 YOU SAID 1 WAS CLEVER. “OU, NO, t DIDN'T, 1 SAID YOU WROTE BOOKS THAT EVERYBODY READ." r At the Old Stand. HERE is a pleasant old story of how a grand monument to a worthy mer- chant bore an inscription testifying to his many virtues and recounting its own erection ‘‘by bis sorrowing widow, who continues the business at the old stand.” How history repcats itself appears in the tribute lately paid by a New York insurance company to its deceased presi- dent. As published in the obit- uary columns of the newspapers, it included, among much other justly Jaudatory matter, the as- sertion that ‘the greatest monu- ment to Mr. ——is the — Life Assurance Company, which since its organization has paid to its policy holders over $——,000,000, and is in such a com- manding position of impregnable strength that its future of “gene, vit YOCR snovin’ ME, You Hoo! continued growth and prosperity is assured. How well he “tT atn't No MOG. I’ AN EXPANGIONIOT."