Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01

An Ium"nSe City.
Statistics are 80. i.,. ing, but in n
other way can one gam al adequate
idea OF the magnitude Of LonGon. An
pproXimatlng idea may he reached
from the fact that within fifteen. mil,
radius of Churing Cross, al of which
Is thlckly populated, are seven hun
dred square miles. Another way CT
stating It's size gives us ihIrteen miles
from east to west, aud nine and one
half miles from north to south, in
which space are contained over four
million people, composed of all nations
upon the face of the globe. 1t con
talns more Roman Catholics than Il bme
itself, more Jews than the whole of
Pail slime, more Irish than the city of
Dublin, and more Scotchmen than l. J.
luburgh. The satiitury statistics show
the tact that Il birth occurs here every
five minutes upon an average, AMI a
death every eight minutes throughout
the year. One must pause thoughtfnlly
to take in the deduction to be drawn
from these facts. 1t has thirty thou
sand miles Of courts, lanes and streets.
70 Which is added twenty eight miles
Of new thoroughfares annually. Onc
hundred aud twenty-five persons are
daily added to the population, making
an annual increase of forty-ive thou
sand. There are over two thousand
schools, seventy pOorhouses, two hun
dred hospitals, four hundred benevo-
lent Institutions, seven thousand law
yers. Nearly eight Thousand vessels
enter the London docks annu lily.
There are over u huudred Insurance.
companies. and two thousand distinct
trades followed by its residents. There
are seventeen hundred omnibuseS and
nearl y seven thousand cabs; Que thou
sand vehicles per hour pass through
Cheapside, and twenty thousand We
hicles a day cross over London Bridge
There are between thirty and forty
theaters, and numberless concert halls.
Tue number of beer shops and gin pal
aces may be judged of from the fact
that if they were placed side by side,
they would reach distance Of seventy
five miles. The police 70 rec numbers
one thousand strong.
EFFECT OF GRIEF. Love disappoint,
ments act very strangely on some dis
positions. Fifty years ago, William
Ash fell desperately in love with II girl,
the daughter of neighboring farmer.
Everything went smoothly till the
wedding morning, when the fathers
could not agree how much to give the
young couple to start in life, and liter
ally at the last moment in church the
t,.l,
much for the weak mind OF William
Ash; he went home, went to lis bed,
and never rose from it again. He WAS
Just thirty when he thus isolated him
self from active life, and he died in
his bed at seventy-fve. His room was
about nine feet square. The floor was
stone and generally damp. The window
was permanently fastened; and some
of the paues were filled with wood; and
ut the time of his death it mad not been
opened for thilty eight years. In this
dreary Cell did this strange being i'm.
mure himself. He obstinately refused
to speak, and gradually every trace of
faded away. His father
left ample provision for his eccentric
son, all Il he was we'll looked after. He
ate as much as an ordinary day laborer,
and at his death weighed over sixteen
stone. We have read of women who
behaved in a similar manner, under
circumstances, but William
A." is the only male victim upon
record.
PLEASURES OF THE SEASON. Some
Of the pleasures of the season are
thus alluded to by the Philadelphia
Despatch:
When the head of the house comes
home after the tolls of the day, and
talks enthusiastically to the wife of his
bosom of the revivifying spring sun
shine, the balmy breezes from the
sweet South, and the faint emerald
,ints of the spring sunsets. the ideal
If his loves young dream pats one
'lippered foot with the other, rubs her
sinister eyebrows with the index finger
# her plump right hand, and says,
lryly,-
"Ya-as! That reminds me must
hink about beginning house cleaning. |