Situations for obtaining favourable
views are anxiously sought after by elderly gentlemen, by whom opera
glasses and pocket telescopes are much patronised. Greatly as we admire
the investigation of nature in her unadorned simplicity, Ramsgate would be
the last place we should select, if we were
[Illustration: GOING DOWN TO A WATERING PLACE.]
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PROSPECTUS
OF A NEW GRAND NATIONAL AND UNIVERSAL STEAM INSURANCE, RAILROAD ACCIDENT,
AND PARTIAL MUTILATION PROVIDENT SOCIETY.
CAPITAL, FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS,
IN ONE HUNDRED MILLION L5 SHARES--HALF DEPOSIT,
THE DIRECTORS
To be duly balloted for from amongst the Consulting Surgeons of the
various Metropolitan hospitals.
ACTING SECRETARIES,
The County Coroners.
By the constitution of this society, the whole of the profits will be
divided among such of the assured as can come to claim them.
The public are particularly requested to bear in mind the double advantage
(so great a _desideratum_ to all railroad travellers) of being at one and
the same time connected with a "Fire, Life, and Partial Mutilation
Assurance Company."
The following is offered as a brief synopsis of the general intention of
the directors. Deep attention is requested to the various classes:--
CLASS I.
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