RICH WITHOUT MONEY.-Many a man is rich without money.

Thousands

of men with nothing in their pockets, and thousands without even a pocket, are rich. A man born with a good, sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart, and good limbs and a pretty good headpiece, is rich. Good bones are better than gold; tough muscles than silver; and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every function are better than houses and land. It is better than a landed estate to have the right kind of a father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses. Education

may do much to check evil tendencies or to develop good ones; but it is a great
thing to inherit the right proportion of faculties to start with. The man is rich
who has a good disposition, who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful, hopeful,
and who has a flavor of wit and fun in his composition.

The hardest thing to get on with in this life is a man's own self. A cross,
selfish fellow, a desponding and complaining fellow, a timid and care-burdened
man-these are all born deformed on the inside. They do not limp, but their
thoughts sometimes do.-Clay Manufacturers' Engineer.

MORTALITY FROM LA GRIPPE.

The following report upon La Grippe was submitted to The Actuarial
Society at its meeting in April 1890:

ACTUARIAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
NEW YORK, April 28, 1890.

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This society is indebted to Oscar B. Ireland for the suggestion to
obtain, as far as practicable, the mortality experience of the life insurance
companies from "La Grippe" for the first quarter of 1890. The members
made returns for their respective companies at the annual meeting of the
society on the 24th inst. at the Astor House. There was not time to tabulate
the data then; moreover, some of the details asked for had been inadver
tently left out. For this latter reason the number of policies and lives ter-
minated by death are omitted from the table given below. For similar con-

siderations the experience on industrial business is not included. The society
appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. Oscar B. Ireland, Rufus W.
Weeks and the recording secretary to obtain the statistics more in detail and
for a longer period than for the first three months, and to report to the next
meeting, which will probably be held in October.

It may

The epidemic appears to have been most fatal among the older policy-
holders and those who would have succumbed to some other disease.
reasonably be expected that the losses for the last nine months of the year by
other diseases will be less numerous than is usual, and the total losses for the
year will be about normal in amount. The table comprises the returns from
twenty-nine companies.
Yours truly,
ISRAEL C. PIERSON,

EXPERIENCE OF TWENTY-NINE COMPANIES-COMPARISON FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR.

Recording Secretary,