By the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite left his entire estate of about $9,000,000 for the encouragement of men who work for the interests of humanity. The interest on this money was to be divided into five equal parts, to be distributed every year as rewards to the persons who had deserved best of mankind in five departments of human activity. The clauses in his will which govern the distribution of these prizes are as follows: "The entire sum will be divided into five equal parts, one to go to the man who shall have made the most important discovery or invention in the domain of physical science; another to the man who shall have made the most important discovery or introduced the greatest improvement in chemistry; the third to the author of the most important discovery in the domain of physiology or medicine; the fourth to the man who shall have produced the most remarkable work of an idealistic nature; and, finally, the fifth to the man who shall have done the most nations, the suppression or reducformation and propagation of peace "The prizes shall be awarded and chemistry, by the Swedish logical or medical work, by the for literature, by the Stockholm a committee of five members ing. "It is my express desire that, count shall be taken of nationality, to the lot of the most deserving, not." The award of the Nobel prizes on December 10. The committee ment of peace and arbitration equally divided between Dr. Henry name had been presented by the sy. founder of the Universal announcement of the awards, Dr. 212, was ill and destitute in a years old. The medical prize went to Dr. burg, Germany. Prof. Behring is diphtheria. Dr. J. H. Van't Hoff. native of Holland, received the istry. He contributed largely to lar physics and is regarded as the chemistry. Alfred B. Nobel. or best work for the fraternity of tion of standing armies, and the congresses. as follows: For physical science Academy of Sciences; for physioCaroline Institute at Stockholm; Academy, and for peace work, by elected by the Norwegian Storth in awarding the prizes, no acin order that the prize may fall whether he be Scandinavian or for 1901 was officially announced on the prize for the encouragereported that the prize had been Dunant, a Swiss physician, whose Swiss Rigsdag, and Frederick PasPeace Union. At the time of the Dunant, who was to receive $20.Swiss hospital. Dr. Passy was 79 Emil Behring, professor at Marthe discoverer of antitoxin for of the University of Berlin, and a prize in the department of chemthe world's knowledge of molecufounder of a new system of stereolected to be the recipient of the Dr. William Roentgen was seprize in physics. He has been a professor at Marburg, Germany, for more than twenty-five years and is famous the world over as the discoverer of the Roentgen or "X rays. The prize in literature was conferred upon the French poet, Armand Sully-Prudhomme. For the past twenty years M. Sully-Prudhomme has had a seat in the French Academy and his published verses have been considered the best of modern French literature. Alfred Bernhard Nobel was the son of Emmanuel Nobel, a manufacturer of torpedoes and a manager of shipbuilding and engineering works. His work kept him in Russia until the close of the Crimean war, when the resources of that country became so enfeebled that the Government could no longer offer him sufficient business to make it worth his while to remain in the Neva. In 1859 he returned to Stockholm and took up the study of explosives. Between 1861 and 1862 Emmanuel Nobel discovered a method of preparing nitro-glycerine which rendered it possible to make practical use of it. In 1867 Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a compound of nitroglycerine with a finely powdered silicious substance composed of the shells of fossilized infusoria. In 1876 he patented gelatinous nitro-glycerine and thirteen years later he invented ballisite, the first of the high explosives which inaugurated the era of smokeless powder. Statistics of Insurance. INSURANCE OFFICIALS OF THE VARIOUS STATES. The following officials have authority over insurance matters in the various States and Territories: Name of Official. Robert P. McDavid. Isaac T. Stoddard.. E. M. Wolf. C. W. Crouter. George W. Marshall. E. H. Dearth. W. Q. Cole... Hartford. State Auditor and Insurance Commissioner.. Little Rock. Title of Office. Secretary of State... Secretary of the Territory Insurance Commissioner. Insurance Commissioner. Superintendent of Insurance. Superintendent of Insurance.. Auditor of Public Accounts.. Commissioner of Insurance. AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, BUSINESS IN 1901.* Milford. Washington. Tallahassee. Santa Fe. Raleigh. Salt Lake City. Name of Company. Number of Policies. $117,314 5,872 737 3,794 Amount. Admitted Assets. Liabilities. Bankers of New York...[1899* 654,954 455,541 8,229,167 12,600 21,546,493 915,999 Berkshire.... 1851 6,458,642 21,996 630,423 10,198,878 Boston Mutual. 112,578 81,206 Central of Iowa.. 1896 98,395 57,236 1,146,050 1,578 2,363,054 102,687 Chicago Life. 1900 78,146 Connecticut General. 1865 802,043 53,278 465,816 59,702 76,120 49,489 Connecticut Mutual. 1846 8,182.474 7,872,913 10,751,601 69,016 Conservative Life. 1900 Des Moines Life.. 11900* Equitable, New York...1859 1,695,299 368,705 336,761 317,586 64,374,606 39,191,159 9,938,310 6,009 10,101,301 1,550,228 1,260,386 3,365,910 245,912,087 10,110 14,794,065 382,029 248,529 259,312,923 Equitable of Iowa. 1867 Federal Life.. [1900 Fidelity Mutual. 1899* 717,940 397,457 88,261 2,657,270 3,406,435 11,135 15,769,525 2,711,828 2,214,027 88,186 1,990,377 2.391.573 19,208,715 39,094 84,306,448 3,930,172 44.226 3,318,966 Franklin Life. 1898 850,413 647,877 Germania 1860 4,931,379 3,628,777 10,464,929 54,723 85,852,001 28,790,810 24,957,399 German Mutual. 1858 62,035 53,613 366,882 Hartford Life. 1869 2,504,701 2.571,369 14,692,959 52,531 77,646,738 2,788,029 2,127,904 Home Life, New York..11899 3,050,173 2,017,873 12,243,695 Illinois Life.. 1899 877,899 Inter-State of Indiana..1899 193,627 113,750 2,260,827 Inter-State of Ohio. 11901 885,600 547 885,600 118,724 Kansas Mutual. 313,385 2,832,430 6,802 11,358,709 598,029 Manhattan 1850 2,943,826 64,206,959 16,791,346 Maryland 11865 349,388 291,998 1,104,230 4,030 Massachusetts Mutual..1851 6,331,788 4,353,725 21,247,029 61,674 146,106,721 28,291,564 Meridian L. & T.. 1897 26,872 Michigan Mutual.. 14,614 1,252,448 608,936 176.867 9,149 446,627 15,136,924 1,850,412 25,892,364 9,148 11,502,020 Minnesota Mutual.... [1901. 748,732 470,973 4,566,129 6,971,076 14,160,629 1,805,326 1,192,632 From the Insurance Year Book for 1902. AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, BUSINESS IN 1901.-Continued. 1862. 1863 12 2,653,500| 2,305,892 1864 27 3,134,200 From the Insurance Year Book for 1902. INCOME AND DISBURSEMENTS OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES-1862-1901. The following statistics show the financial condition of all life insurance companies reporting to the New York Insurance Department during the past forty years: 28 $2,310,000 $30,123,3321 $1,705,610 $2,801,419 $85,867 $3,759,153] Number. Amount. 3,699,661 129,371 5,764,043 98,095 267,658,677 64,232,123 4,125,442 7,021,649 81,232,333 77,536,280 785,360 2,101,461,834 78,207,257 804,444 2,114,742,591 84,501,446 817,081 2,086,027,178 799,534 1,997,236,230 79,982,466 76,618,183 74,337,324 774,625 1,922,043,146 72,128,070 1,735,995,190 1,556,105,323 612,843 1,480,921,223 INCOME AND DISBURSEMENTS OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES-1862-1901.-Continued. 1893. 1894 1895. 1896. 1897 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. Years. 32 8,570,500 971,857,224 65,406,796 110,566,414 768,563 166,512,254 1,681,511 Amount. SPECIAL INSURANCE ORGANIZATIONS. Prepared from statistics published by the Spectator Company in "The Life Insurance Year Book" for 1902. Expenditures. Form of Insurance. companies. Income. Aetna Life. American Mut. Lia. Ins. 1887 Central Accident Ins.. 1895 150,000 333,114 1850 $1,750,000 $59,590,053 $53,540,450 $1,329,978) $581,995 $1,233,112 $182,998,619 388,557 196,131 261,299 236,798 271,705 94,414,600 62,129,685 Continental Casualty. 849,756 Employers' Lia. Asso. Corp. 1,767,971 Employers' Mut. Indemnity. 1892 115,385 Fidelity and Casualty. 4,416,913 Frankfort-American 1898 300,000 537,968 44,106,534 330,637,790 12,437,850 804,471.898 46,346,688 Frankfort Marine, Acc. and Plate Glass Ins. Gen'l Accident Assurance. 1891 250,000 434,611 126,478 Gen'l Accident of Phila. 18991 132,848 256,057 72,426 Grt. East. Cas. & Indemnity. |1892 125,000 236,812 199,019 156,261 44.763 150,086 93,315,000 London Guar. Accident.. 200,000 1,231,818] 786,829 Maryland Casualty 1898 93,799,400 770,999 1,590,795 142,934,582 New Amsterdam Casualty. 1898 314,400 576,179) 524,546 349,140 168,096 350,398 63,957,406 North Amer. Accident Ins. 1886 100,000 234,827 47,198,939 500,000] 4,958,806 98,464,017 65,122 32,709 78,963 10,022,250 Philadelphia Casualty. 171,646 Preferred Accident Ins. Standard Life and Accident. Travelers' 1864 1,000,000 Union Accident Stock. 1901 100,000 133,860 Union Casualty and Surety. 1892 250,000 524,994 United States Casualty. 1895 300,000 1,292,172 U. S. Health and Acc. Ins.. 1901 200,000 279,044 Bankers' Mutual Casualty... Credit: The following companies transact more than one class of insurance business: Aetna Life, Aetna Indemnity, Bankers' Surety, Central Accident, Continental Casualty, Employers' Liability Assurance Corpors tion, Fidelity and Casualty, Frankfort-American, Frankfort Marine, Accident and Plate Glass, General A |