Registered at the New-York Postoffice as Second-class Matter.

FOR CONTENTS AND INDEX, SEE PAGES 329 TO 335.

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THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING CO.

Has been engaged during the last Fourteen Years in Laying Pavements of

Genuine

TRINIDAD ASPHALT,

The extent of which is now more than FIVE. MILLION, NINE HUNDRED and FIFTEEN THOUSAND SQUARE YARDS, Covering a Length of Over FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO MILES IN THIRTY-THREE CITIES in the UNITED STATES,

Wherever it has been introducedit

has come to stay, and has never been

taken up or d

placed in favor of

any other mate

rial.

After successful use

for several years in other cities it was laid in NewYork in 1886.

TRADE

MARK

and since to the extent of 273,480 square yards upon the Boulevard, Vanderbilt Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, West End Avenue, Pleasant Avenue, Wall Street, William Street, Hanover Street, Exchange Place and

FORTY-NINE OTHER STREETS

in various sections of N. Y. City, equivalent to 19 1-2 Miles of roadway 25 feet

wide.

These streets comprise heavy traffic. medium traffic, and light traffic. On all of them the pavement is DURABLE, SMOOTH, CLEAN, NOISELESS AND SAFE.

FOR PLANS AND ESTIMATES APPLY TO

THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING CO.

F. V. GREENE, Vice-President.

1 Broadway,

New-York.

Send to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 120 Broadway, New York, or to any of its Agencies, for Illustrations of TwentyYear Tontine Policies, showing cash surrender values at maturity equal to a return of all premiums paid, with interest of from 2 to 6 per cent. per annum.

THE FIDELITY AND CASUALTY CO..

140 to 146 Broadway, N. Y. City.

ASSETS, $1,500.000.00

DEPOSITED with Insurance Department of New-York (for the security of ALL POLICY HOLDERS)..

$200,000.00

FIDELITY.-Bonds of Suretyship for Officers and Employes of Corporations aud business firms holding positions of trust,

CASUALTY.-Accident, Plate Glass, Boiler, Employer's and Landlord's

Liability.

For 1892.

ECLIPSES.

During the year 1892 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon.

I-A total eclipse of the Sun, April 26, invisible in the United States. II. A partial eclipse of the Moon, May 11, visible in the United States east of Cincinnati, the Moon rising with the earth's shadow upon it. The eclipse ends at New-York 7:41 p. m., Washington 7:29 p. m. and Boston 7:53 p. III-A partial eclipse of the Sun, visible as follows:

m.

The eclipse will be visible Indies. Greatest size of the

over nearly the whole of North America and the West eclipse, 10.9 digits.

IV-A total eclipse of the Moon, November 4, invisible in the United States, but seen in Asia and Europe.