Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-12

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of two miles for shilling ga cents, ant
each mile after that only costs SiXpemces
N2 cents). This price hires the cab ant
two can ride in it without extra charge
What do you think of that, Mr.. Springfield
hackman?
The English people are the greatest
NATION OF LUNCHERS
| ever saw. Lunch and eating between
meals seems to be the chief end of man
EnglShman. Four meals are the rule: lst,
breakfast; I'd, dinner; Sd, tea; 4th, supper,
and some people add luncheon to that. The
facilities for cheap iunching. | must admit,
are excellent. Look at some of the prices
translated into American money values:
Coffee, cents per cup; milk, tea or cocoa,
cents each; lemonade, cents; sausage
and mashed potatoes, 4 cents; rolls and
butter, cents: green gage plums,
, cents per half pound; tarts, cakes, plum
cakes. buns and meat pies, from to
cents and other articles of every kind in
bOundless profusion and at cheap prices.
The amount of wine and ale consumed is
something prOdigOus. All the theaters have
their refreShment stands and drinking bars.
with champagne, sherry and all kinds of
wines from 6 cents to Il cents per glass.
The business done by these bars is enOr-
nous. There are lunch saloons everywhere,
on every boat, in every park, on the street
corners, in all places of amusement was
op, al tn ind in 6
the great cathedrals. The omnibuSses are
the only places where twenty people regu-
Iarly congregate in London without having
a lunch stand to keep them feeding, and |
will fit up an omnibus with lunch stand at f,
tnched and make his fortune.
The theatres of London are neither SO
large nor magnificent as one would suspect. /
The Strand and Globe theaters. though .
slightly larger. are neither of them as hand
some as the Grand opera house in Spring
field. They are very old theaters.
| went to see Gilbert and Sullivan's
Mikado at their own theater, the Savoy, the
other afternoon, at a morning performance,
As they call matinees here, commencing al
2:3O. The opera has been running at the
Savoy since originally brought out there.
The theater is very handsome. Everything
IS gilt about it, the front of the galleries,
boxes, railings, etc. 1t is lighted with Edi-
sons ineandeScent electric light. The com
nany, which was trained by Gilbert and
Sullivan personally, gave ali ideal render
ng of the opera. The orchestra consisted
n London. To understand Gilbert and
piece one must see them here in
heir own theater. The scenery was copied
rom real Japanese scene and the COS
umes were imported from Japan. Reports
II American papers to the contrary. Dixey
; doing very well at the Gaiety here.
London is full of Americans. heard
hipper little American lady. with yellow
lair, telling clerk at the general pOStOffice
lere this morning, that the one at New
ork was much larger. He laughed and
aid, There is the telegraph Office over ,
here" ''Oh. It is, said she, ''the Western
Jnion," | suppose. The man looked dazed.
de didn't know enough TO appreciate the
innocence of her remarks.
One of the latest mechanical wrinkles in
london is mechanical cigarette clerk.
The clerk does not wear patent leather
hoes and carry cane. Not much He
5 made of iron, the shape of a post, with
quare head. He has a slit i'll his head {
which will just admit penny. When the I
benny is put in, its weight is just sufficient
o put some mechanical device in operation,
which opens an iron slit and rolls out
cigarette to the purchaser. Weighing
machines are constructed on the same I
principle. You stand on the scale, put in
penny and the machine weighs you
1t is really a wonderful
nyeatiOn. ROBT. BRAIN. {