LANDING IN AFRICA.
We leave Gibraltar by Steamer, and upon reaching the city of NEMOURS, Our Artist and his Better-Half are taken ashore from the small boat by the Natives in this summary manner!—A couple of inviting Hotel-keepers are awaiting them on the beach.
AN ARAB BEGGAR.
One of the first Objects that greets the eagle eye of Our Artist, as he wanders around the streets of NEMOURS, is this cheerful "What-is-it," who mournfully begs for a few grains of corn.
AFRICAN WATER CARRIERS.
Sketch of a fantastic little Fountain in one of the streets of the City of ORAN.
BED-ROOMS IN AFRICA.
This is the sort of Thing that you find meandering round on your pillow, when you retire to your Chamber for the night, at the Hotel in ORAN.
ANOTHER ARAB BEGGAR.
This Gentleman, who accosted us in the suburbs of ORAN, assured us in tremulous accents that he had eaten nothing in seventeen days—and we saw no reason for doubting his word.
LOCOMOTION IN AFRICA.
Upon our arrival in the City of ALGIERS, we are much amused at the first vehicle we see; where a diminutive donkey is hitched in front of an enormous horse.
COSTUMES IN AFRICA.
Alarm of Our Artist, as he, for the first time, encounters a Moorish maiden, as she appears around the corner from a dark and narrow street, in the Kasbah quarter of the City of ALGIERS.
SOLDIERS IN AFRICA.
A French Zouave off duty, as he appeared while listening to the Military Band that played every afternoon in the Place du Gouvernment, ALGIERS.
A STREET IN ALGIERS.
The Rue Staoueli—a narrow street in the old Arab Quarter of ALGIERS, where the houses nearly touch each other at their tops.
MANUFACTURES IN AFRICA.
Sketch in the Rue Kasbah.—A couple of Moorish Jews, engaged in silk spinning, at the door of their palatial residence.
MOORISH SHOP-KEEPER.
This graceful and fairy-like Will-o'-the-Wisp, sold us some lovely silk embroideries, in ALGIERS, the like of which, Solomon, in all his glory never dreamed of.
FINE ARTS IN AFRICA.
We visit the not very interesting Museum in ALGIERS, and sketch, among other curious objects, a Cast of an Arab Martyr [one GÉronimo], who had been buried alive in a box of Plaster of Paris.
JARDIN D'ESSAI, ALGIERS.
Merely a sketch (for the last page of this little book) of a Date-Palm Tree, in ALGIERS, with a couple of Arabs trying to get in its shade.
T H E
UNITED STATES LIFE INSURANCE CO.
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The annual statement, submitted last January, and accepted by the State Commissioner of Insurance as correct, shows the assets to be $4,654,274, and the surplus, as already stated, to be over $800,000, or more than twenty per cent, of all the liabilities.
The United States Life Insurance Co. is known in Life Insurance circles as one of the most carefully handled institutions in the city.
So well has it been managed that its business has increased rather than retrograded during the past year, as bad as it has been for all kinds of business. And its losses have been less this year than in any of the five preceding.
Its officers are among the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of New York. JAMES BUELL, Esq., the President, is the President of the Importers and Traders' Bank, a man whose name is a synonym for integrity and skill in finance, and its stockholders are men equally well known in business circles, and hold an equal share of public esteem.
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Organized 1850.
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JAMES BUELL, President.
C. P. FRALEIGH, Sec'y. T. H. BROSNAN, Supt. Agencies.
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HENRY W. BALDWIN,
Supt. Middle Department,
Office: Drexel Building, cor. Wall & Broad Streets,
NEW YORK.
