, 1886-12-12
How Lonpon PEOPLE 1--WE.


Ib,ir Yearly of Meat and
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Abstemlousness.
Rome has not so many Roman Catho-
lies ns London: Dublin has fewer Irish
men than London; Edinburgh less Scotch
men. and Jews, why all Judea has not
one tenth as many, and 1t grows every
fnv. Every four minutes makes n birth
even while | spend two hours in writ
ing this. thirty babes will nave 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
md o Irows are n multitude. Its streets.
1t is 3, 500 miles journey from New York
TO san Francisco. You can walk, say
twenty miles II day; Il hundred days,
1000 miles. Well, 1t would take you 40
lays at that rate to make the trip. But
london has : 900 miles Of streets, and If
you tool them for a morning walk Mt the
rate Of twenty miles n day, you would
have to walk almost n year-and more
than a year by nearly fifty days If you
should lay up Sundays. And II you were
u thirsty sort of traveller and couldn't
pass n drinking ~shop-don't be alarmed
the 1000 miles has 1ve-and-seventy
miles of drinking shops-publics they
call them. SO You need not think of
thirst.
How do these people live'-as you do,
by eating. They eat II lot. ! can't go
into figures, but you can take your states
and figure up how much they swallow
every day, for in n year these Londo
folks swallow down 800, 900 oxen, 1000
900 sheep, 200, 900 calves. 800, 900 swine,
5000, 900 head of fowls, 800, 900, 900
pounds of fish, 800, 600, 900 pounds of oys-
tnra NM MN lnhltarG-fs TINT nnnnph tn
figure ON II not, there are some million
tons of canned goods; no end of fruit
and other stuff, but not to spoil your APP
petite talking of beans II peas, and
30, 900, 900 bushels of wheat, we might as
well forbear. But how do they wash all
this stuff down, y0u might feel glad to
know. Look sharp. 1t takes POO, 900 900
quarts of beerl A stream of beer about
the size of the Wapsie would not suffice
to quench the common thirst: But more
than this, they drink 5000, 600 quarts of
ruIn and 80 900, 900 of wine-thc wine,
the rum, the hccr-260. 600, 600 quartsl
ANY water Some for s%prinkling
streets, about 100, 900, 900 of gallons daily.
Taking out the water used for sprinkling,
cooking aud fountains. and the actual
drinking supply Is desperately small. But
MS English yOu know, and there Is no use
saying II word. Amy temperance people,
Yes, plenty Of them, but ii only seems
to make more drinking i'r those that are
not. The supply IL about as large and
has to be consumed. True, the govern
ment snys there is II sad falling oil of late
in spirit revenues; but It is difficult to see
where You see more drunkenness in an
hour in London than IN t.e entire con
tincnt Of Europe-all Asia thrown in, and
Africa, too-ln II year. But London Is II
great city-and very thirsty. You 90 to
Liverpool or Glnsgow-go to lovely Edin-
burgh, or up to HUH, or Leeds, Manches
ter, or Inverness, and it is ju It as bad
deep drunkenness and deeper, damning
sins than drunkenness, rampage In the
streets. What cnn you say This On
sabbath day. No such abstcmiousncss
IL fonnd in all the world rs in these cities
| have ~namcd-that is from midnight
Saturday night. when all the dens and
buozing kens are closed in front, till
Sunday afternoon ut q. Sunday-you
can't get n cup of coffee Sunday morning
in any coffee place. london Letter,