Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-03
LONDON LETTER.
More People Die i'm London in a
Week than there are People
in D0dgevilie.
And more are Born than there are
People in Mineral Point.
A CHAPTER ON THE NEWSPAPERS
OF LONDON.
From our Foreign Correspondent

Every now and then [ am STRUCK
afresh with the size of this huge
mass of houses, this network o
streets called London. I may g
back and forth for days giving it a.
little thought as | used to give The
Jerusalem Pump in my daily pas
sings by. Suddenly, however,
happen to turn up some hitherto
unknown street, and find it in turr
leading to and being crossed by nu
merous other streets, and these again
with their own families of street:
and lanes and courts, all strange
and all bewildering. Then the
sense of London's crushing size
comes back to me, and | am tor.
mented with the overpowering facts
that there are over four million PEG.
pie here, that in one week more die
than there are people In Dodgeville
more are born than there are peo
pie in Mineral Point, and that the
poor 'who are always with us
those who live by charity alone
number one hundred thousand
souls. What a nice little village il
Is where the streets, if put end to
end, would measure from where |
am sitting to somewhere IN the
neighhorhood of Omaha. Where
there are more Irish than in Du b.
lin, more Scotch than in Edinburgh,
more Jews than in Palestine, and
more Roman Catholics than in
Romel Where from east to west its
police district measures about thirty
miles, and from north to south
about twenty-four miles.
In another way | am equally inn
pressed with its size. | take up a
daily paper one morning, and in
some corner i'll fine print | find a
line or SO saying that Mr.. Darwin
spoke the night before at the meet
ing of some society, or perhaps
Herbert Spencer is spoken of a.
having finished his course Of lee
lures. Perhaps Tyndall, Huxley,
Ruskin, Tennyson, Sturgeon, OF
some equally noted man has done
or said something of great impor-
lance; it may be noticed OF not.
One fancies that this London must
be tremendous place if it cannot
find time to notice the doings and
sayings of men, anyone Of whom in
any city of the United States would
be regarded as gre alter than king.
So it is with other things The
daily papers no doubt find it i'm
possible to chronicle everything
from street fights upward as a Chi
cago paper would do, and at the
same time give due space to the
movements of the members of the
royal family, and the state of Ire
land. There are reviews and
special class papers to which one
must look, if DESTROYS Of learning
what of importance is being done
or said by London scientists or phi
losophers. There seem to be papers
devoted to every known subject I'M
der the sun; so the great London
daily papers can be pardoned for
not noticing hurriedly what these
special papers treat in full.
Now that | have drifted to the
subject Of daily papers may as
well write few lines about them.
There is one thing [ like about the
best class London papers, the adver-
tisements are held in check, and are
not allowed to disfgure any part OF
the paper. They may be as
amusingly worded, but they must
all be printed in neat little para
graphs. The Times, which is the
best looking and best printed paper
III the world, is very particular on
this point. The Times, however,
/ was very unfortunate one day last
week. In the report Of certain
political speech line was inserted
in some underhand manner. 1t was
entirely foreign to the rest of the
report, and was besides of char
acter rarely seen in print. As soon
as it was discovered, which was not
until the first edition was out, mes
sengers were sent in all directions to
buy it in at any price l was told
that bids for the Objectionable cop
les ran as high as five and six
pounds.
The Daily Telegraph has the
largest circulation of any paper in
the world, and is also considered the
most sensational of London dailies
compared with the Chicago Times
however, it is milk and water as faI
rs sensation is concerned. 1t has a
number of celebrated writers on its
staff amongst them George Augustus
Sala, who seems to know little OF
everything and everybody, and has
a delightful way OF writing lead.
leader" (editcriaD about nothing al
all. Charles Reade is also a con.
tributor to the Telegraph, and wrote
a most energetic letter last week in
behalf of the Jews in Russia Swim.
burne, too. had a poem on the same