The Jewish South. [volume], March 24, 1899, Image 15

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THE JEWISH SOUTH.
Premiums due and deferred, less cost of collec
tion «. 233,924 64
Agents' Balances 61,063 46
Commuted Commissions 155,102 25
Carried out at market value—Total... 15,538,726 24
BUSINESS IN VIRGINIA DURING 1898.
No. Amount.
Number and amount of policies in force December 31st
tof previous year 319 $845,593 00
mber and amount of policies issued during the year. . 22 64,219 00
Total "341 $909,812 00 j
luct number and amount which have ceased to be in
force during the year 47 170,009 00
Total number and amount of policies in force
December 31, 1898 294 $739,803 00 I
lOunt of losses and claims on policies unpaid Decem
ber 31st of previous year 1 $2,500 00
Amount of losses and claims on policies incurred during
the year 9 18,670 00
« Total 10 $21,170 00
ount of losses and claims on policies paid during the
year 10 $21,170 00
Amount of assessments, premiums, dues a,nd fees collected or secured in Vir-
Ka during the year, in cash and notes or credits, without any deduction
osses, dividends, commissions, or other expenses, $21,971 74.
(Signed) J. L. HALSEY, Vice-President.
(Signed) WM. C. FRAZEE, Secretary.
New York, City of New York—ss :
m to February 10, 1899, before WM. N. STEBBINS,
] Notary Public.
That figures are sometimes wonderful things is
illustrated by the following actual occurrence in a
nearby college town a number of years ago: A
student in the university was a member of an eating
club of twelve members which regularly patronized
a certain little hostelry. He was lucky enough one
day to become the recipient of a legacy amounting
to about $1,000, and, showing the sum to the hotel
keeper, agreed to give it to him on condition that
the sum be accepted as payment for meals eaten by
the students until every possible combination of the
seating arrangements of the boys had been exhaust
ed, the order of seats occupied by the boys to be
changed at each meal.
The hotel keeper thought it a most profitable
deal, but a friend of his with a mathematical turn
proved to him that it really would mean ruin, as no
less than 479,001,600 arrangements were possible,
or a total of 5,748,019,200 individual meals, which
at the rate of ten cents per meal, would represent a
value of the tidy sum of $547,801,920. The con
tract was carried out for the four years of the boys'
student life, when it really drove the hotel man from
business, as reckoned on a basis of $2 per week per
student the hotel man-had lost $3,992, while the
students had only eaten 52,416 individual mealsand
had still a credit of 5,748,966,784 meals, or enough
to give them three meals a day for 438,718% years.
— Philadelphia Record.
1 he Jews of Afghanistan, a country bordering on
Asiastic Russia, India, and Persia, are an interesting
people. Their vernacular is Persian, a language
the settlement, and the remnant who
remained faithful to the memory of
old traditions are chiefly poor and
Information WlanteO
regarding the whereabouts of Sender
Leventon, whose name in Russia was
Sender Suck, 48 years old, who came
to New York three years ago. For
four years he lived in Dublin, Ireland,
with his brother, S. Leventon. If he
or any of our readers will send us his
address, he will hear something of
great importance.
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A German lady has been paying a
visit to Frau Emden Heine, the sister
of the poet. Frau Emden is ninety
eight years old, but is still strong and
fresh in mind and body. She was of
fered 20,000 marks for Heine's unpub-
Kied MSS.
Send us your Printing.
which is spoken by the better class of inhabitants of
the country, which once formed part pf the Persian
empire. The most important Jewish communities
and the largest in point of numbers, are those at
Cabul, Hurat, Candahar, Ghizni, and Balkh. In the
first mentioned city there may be seen the ruins of a
synagogue which, according to the statements of
the Jews there, belongs to the time of Nebuchadnez
zar, King of Babylon ; for during his reign, it is said
a Jewish community already existed in Cabul. The
rites and customs of the Jews in Afghanistan essen
tially differ from those of their co-religionists in
Europe. They obtain their religious books chiefly
from Teheran and Muscat. From Persia also come
their rabbis, who at the same*time exercise the func
tions of judges. In the towns the Jews reside in
special quarters called Mahali-Yedoudiyeh. Their
costume is similar to that of the other natives, with
the exception of aback turban, which they wear as
token of mourning in remembrance of the destruc
tion of Jerusalem. (According to a Persian traveller
this black turban, is simply a destinctive mark.)
Medicine is the art which they chiefly exercise.
Ten million nerve fibres are said to be found in the
The skeleton measures one inch less than the
height of the living man.
Wherever a profound cavity exists in the bed of
the ocean near the land earthquakes are frequent,
being caused by great pieces of land sliding off into
the depths of the sea.