Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-28
HOW LONDON PEOPLE LIVE.
Their Yearly Allowance of Meat and
Drlnk-Sabbath Abstemlonsnes..

Their Yearly Allowance of Meat and
DrInk-Sabbath AbstemIousness-
Rome has not so many Roman. Catho-
lies rs London: Dublin has fewer Irish
men than London; Edinburgh less Scotch
men; and Jews! why all Judea has not
one tenth as many, and it grows every
day Every four minutes makes a birth
even while spend two hours in writ
ing this, thirty babes will have been born
and twenty deaths will have taken place.
You think Of it; the evening paper that
records the births and the deaths Of the
preceding fOur-and-twenty hours must
give 800 separate items. Verify its joys
and SORROWS are a multitude. Its streets.
II is $500 mile journey from New York
70 San Francisco. You can walk, say
twenty miles a day; a hundred days,
2, 900 miles. Well, IL would take you 1I5
days at that rate TO make the trip. But
London has 1000 miles of streets, and il
you took them for morning walk at the
rate of twenty miles a day, you would
have to walk almost year-and more
than a year by nearly fifty days if you
should lay up Sundays. And If you were
a thirsty sort Of traveller and couldn't
pass drinking shop-dOn't be alSmed
the 1000 miles has five-and-seventy
miles Of drinking shops-publics they
call them. So you need not think of
thirst.
How do these people lives-as you do,
by eating. They eat q lot. l can't go
into figures, but you can take your states
and figure up how much they swallow
every day, for in a year these London
folks swallow down 800, 900 oxen, 2,OOO,-
900 sheep, 200, 900 calves 800, GOO swine,
&, 1000, 900 head Of fowls, 5O0, 900, 900
pounds Of fish, 500, 900, 900 pounds of oys-
ters, 200, 900 lobsters--is that enough TO
figure on II not, there are some million
tons Of canned goods; no end of fruit
and other stuff, hut not to spoil your ap
petite talking OF beans and peas, and
sc, 900, 900 bushels Of wheat, We might as
well forbesr But how do they wash all
this stuff down, you might feel glad to
know. Look sharp. II takes 2OO, O9O, 900
quarts of beer! A stream Of beer about
the size Of the Wapsie would not suffice
to quench the common thirst. But more
than this, they drink 10. 000, 600 quarts of
rum and 50, 900. 900 of wine-the wine,
the rum, the beer-260, 900, 900 quarts!
ANY water Some for sprinkling
streets, about 150, ,OO0, 900 OF gallons daily.
Taking out the water used for sprinkling,
cooking and fountains, and the actual
drinking supply is desperately small. But
it's English you know, and there is no use
saying q word. Any temperance peOple'
Yes, plenty OF them, but Il only seems
TO make more drinking for those that are
not. The supply is about as large and
has TO be consumed. True, the govern
ment says there is a sad falling off of late
in spirit revenues; but it is difficult TO see
where. You see more drunkenness in an
hour in London than on the entire con-
tinent of Europe-all Asia thrown in, and
Africa, tOo-in year. But London is a
great city-and very thirsty. You go to
Liverpool or Glasgow-go to lovely Edin-
burgh, or up to Hull, or Leeds, Manches-
ter, or Inverness, and it is juT as bad
deep drunkenness and deeper, damning
sins than drunkenness, rampage in the
streets. What can you say This! On
Sabbath day. No such abstemiousness
is found in all the world as in these cities
l have named-that is from midnight
Saturday night, when all the dens and
boozing kens are closed in front, till
Sunday afternoon at s. Sunday-you
can't get cup Of coffee Sunday morning
in any coffee place.-London Letter.