Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-11

which would cost double that amount
Mt home. Cab hire is also very cheap.
You can ride in a cab two miles for a
shilling, twenty-five cents Of our mon
ey.-Splendid turnout8, for driving in
the parks, with drivers in livery, (and
no others allowed in Hyde Park al
most royal equipagos, can be had an
entire day for $500
The matter Of dress attracts the at
tention of strangers. All the cab and
omnibus drivers, and they are legion,
wear ''stove-pipe hats" In fact there
are but two kinds Of hats worn in Lon
don, the stove-pipe and the stiff,
round-topped hats.--The walters at
the hotels are all in full dress -swal-
low-tail coats, white necktles and
white vests, with button-hole 5oquets
They have quite stunning eject up
bashful granger like myself.
There is not respectable barber
shop in London, nor in fact in all Eu-
rope It is the hardest work to find a
shop in London or Paris When you
do find one it bears poor comparison
with our American Tonsorial Palaces
The chairs are simply common Office
chairs, with high head-rest uncush-
toned and uncomfortable, like the en-
tire chair. This surprised me. [
supposed that in Paris, at least, |
should find elegant barber shops,
where exquisite French artists would
shave a man and dress his hair in the
highest style of the art.
There is very little tobacco used in
Europe, and few cigars. Fine cut
chewing tobacco, used so generally at
home, is a thing unheard Of here.
have searched Liverpool, London and
Paris in vain for it. Even the most
villianous plug is hard to find here
Nobody chews tobacco. Cigars are
also little used. It is rare thing tc
see man on the street smoking. /
presume st. Paul consumes as many
cigars as Paris or london. AS a re
suit, spittoon, so common and nee
essary in all American hotels, is no
used here. [ have not seen one since
1 landed in Liverpool:
The saying e'free as water" would
not convey any idea of plenty o.
cheapness in this country. The PEG
pie have never learned the value. 0
water as beverage. AS result it i
hard to get. You never find waite
tanks in hotels or other public places
as in America, and it is seldom put oil
the table. Every one drinks wine
beer or ale, and you astonish waite
by calling for water. Ice is scarc
and expensive, and very little used
while you know at home it is one Of The
cheapest, most common and necessary
Injuries of,summer.
London is the greatest city of tn,
world, and its immensely is beyond NJ,
portrayal No description could con
vey an adequate idea of its vast di
mensions. There are thousands o
busy streets stretching in all direc
tions. [ rode on a Thames steame
nearly twenty miles along its rive
front, and in cabs and on top of omnl
buses, for hours. through its surgin
thoroughfares. To give some idea o
the extent of the city, I will simpl
state that 1t takes 400,000 street lamp
to light it at night. Place them Eft
! feet apart, which is much nearer to
gether than they are usually found
and they would make a single line Q
light stretching nearly four thousan
miles. Many of the buildings are Q
| immense size. [ saw one row OF ten
ement houses sixteen stories in height
. I saw but one street in the city wit
street cars. although there are probabl
more. But omnibusses are used O
all the principal streets. They ar
very large and comfortable and i
; countless numbers, Lines of stear
: cars. threading the city in all directions
some running underground. others O.
the level of the ground, and other
still over the tops of the houses O.
the outer streets, where the houses ar
only four stories high.
We intend to remain in Londo
some days on our return, and [ shal
try aud write another letter mention
ing somewhat in detail few OF it
! most noted institutions.
We left London for this city o.
Thursday morning. the 10th, this be
ing our fifth day here, Git is nos
G Monday. The trip was g delightful
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