Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-04
THE HEART OF THE WORLD.
A Spot in London Which is the Gen.
ter of the Globes Traffic.

the gentry, can not fail to impress an
observer of ordinary keenness and
intelligence. And among the most
important of these objects of interest
are certainly to be classed the Mansion
house, the Royal exchange, the Bank
of England, and their surroundings.
They are all in the heart of what is
known as "the City," London, it must
DE remembered, is divided, for the pur-
poses of government, into what may
be called London proper, with twenty
six wards and number of CELEBRITIES
and the "Out parishes" the city of
Westminster, and the seven parlia-
mentary boroughs of Chelsea, the tow
er hamlets, M1ylebone, Lambeth, Fins
bury, Hackney and Southwark. Each
of the boroughs are represented by two
members in the house of commons.
Westminster is also entitled to two
and the city of London to four. But
this is depression. AS has been said.
the Mansion house, the Royal exchange
and the Bank of England, three of the
most noteworthy buildings in the
world, are situated in what is known
as 1.-THE City," and surrounded by the
richest and most extensive banking
houses, commercial firms, and insur-
aEce offices in the kingdom.
1t has been said, perhaps not inaptly,
that the site Immediately in front of
the exchange, upon which stands the
famous statue of Wellington, is the
heart of the world. 1t certainly is so
to the extent of being the heart of Lon
don. No other square Of the size in the
world can boast of such traffic. From
it radiate no less than eight of the most
important thOroughfares in great Lon
don, King William street, Lombard
street, Threadneedle street, Cornhill,
Wallbrook, Canon street, Princes street
and Cheapside, all through the day and
night, empty living streams into it.
From daybreak until long after dark
great crowds are ever coming and GO
ing. But few women are seen. This
is almost exclusively a mans regior-a
region to make money in and to lose
it. There goes, putting, fat man, fat
and short, with white waistcoat, a
sallow, tallowy sort of face, and long
hooked nose which plainly reveals his
Jewish origin. That mans name is
known to every banker in the world.
At the bottom of check it is good for
millions, not Of dollars, but of English
pounds; yet he hurries along with far
more trouble and anxiety stamped
upon his face than is ever likely to be
experienced by that staggering young
officer who strolls carelessly into LON
bard street to negotiate loan of few
hundreds. There near him, walking
as though his life depended on the
pace, comes familiar figure in this
quarter-a stockbroker. He does not
dress so well as do his brethren in New
York, but he has the same keen, rest
less eye. He wears a flower in the
button hole of his close fitting cut
away coat. Types, almost identical,
of the same figure, and everyone dec
GRATED with button hole flower, are
all about. Bank messengers in uni
form and with black bags move here
and there in the throng; tall policemen,
they are numerous here-watch
them protectingly, and they carry their
treasure safely; occasionally a dashing
fellow, pickpocket, or a sullen look
ing knave, a sneak thief, sinks out Of
the sight of these same police men; but
not so the vendors of obscene literature.
They are bold fellows in "the city"
and apparently on the best of
terms with the authorities. To be
sure, they keep their books with
haring covers, out of sight I'M
der their coats most of the time, but
when they see possible customer, a
sailor, "fush" looking clerk, or a
countryman, they do not scruple to
display their pictures of women, alto
gether too Evelike in the matter of
costume, or too loudly proclaim the
merits of 'tIe very latest new novel.
The racy adventures of a clergyman's
daughter in Londing." On the side
walks or out in the roadway, it is all
one TO them. Under the heads of the
horses, rivaling the boys, who all day
long sweep the street filth into dust
pans, these young rascalS ply their
trade. How they escape death and
mangling from the ever whizzing
wheels of the carriages and cabs. and
uaHuSUuN, WAOSc occupants IQcy nope
to make buyers of their books, is a
mystery to a stranger. And even
greater seems the wonder that those
same vehicles, with drays, and carts
and omnibusses, and pienaen's and hux
ter's wagons besides, do not become
. hopelessly blocked" mixed, inter
locked, broken out of all use and shape
J in that small square to which run SC
many streets. Rnt they never do be
come blocked" ard though some OF
the cabs and handsoms dart along al
the top speed of good horses, the Der.
centage of accidents is very small. II
may be that this immunity from mis-.
haps is to be attributed to the great
care of the policemen, and to the fact
that in the London streets vehicles of
every sort are obliged to move briskly
in line and to the left, not to the right,
as is the case in most other places.
Jesse James In Heaven.
The only newspaper which has thus
far published an obituary of the late