Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-01
LONDON MEMORANDA.
Photographic Flashes Taken In the Great
City by Prentice MrsSsrd.
Especial Correspondei.c

LONDON MEMORANDA.
Photographs Flashes Taken In tho Great
City by Prentice MrsSerd.
Especial Correspondent.
SAC HARBoR, May 30.--No "tumblers"
In England. All glasses. A pitcher"
Is a jug. Don't ask for pitcher Of
water over there. Nobody will know
what you mean. Warming ale in cold
weather they call "chilling" It. Done
in sort Of brass hopper kept on bar.
Nobody in London knows Thames as
a river. Told driver once TO drive
me TO river. Didn't know what
meant. Must ask for bridge you want
that crosses Thames. Such as "Westmin-
ster," Waterloo" "Blackfriars," Lon
don," etc. Coal spoken OF as GOALS"
No "buggies." Molasscs known as
"treacle." Sold by the pound. "Chem-
ist" and druggist" different affairs.
People spoken of AS starved with cold"
London English better spoken than with
us. All syllablcs sounded None cut
of. Full justice done TO the terminal
ling" Thus: London says speaking"
America. "speak-in." Lancashire Eng
lish next to Choctaw. Devonshire Eng
lish resembles New England English.
Liverpool English sprinklcd with Welsh.
Few restaurants. Mostly coffee houses
or chop houses. Coffee generally sloppy.
Tea good. Frequent notice in windows:
"No charge for cooking" Meaning
this: Customer buys chop or steak at
market. Coffee house cooks IL without
charge. Charges penny for coffee. Ditto
for bread and butter. Special shops for
cooked food abundant. "Iam and beef
shops" Corned beef Ready at noon. Can
buy down 10 two pence worth. Shaved
Oft very thin. Superbly cooked.
Freshly boiled potatoes and turnips by
the ha'pcnny worth. Given you In paper
roll Also soup kitchens. Soup only.
Pea soup and beef soup. Penny = bowl.
Bowls chained to table. Also fish kitch-
ems. Busy mostly at night. 10:30 p. m..
for late suppers. Fish fried in watts of
oil. Potatoes ditto. Eight cents buys fish
supper for two. Pint of porter two
pence. Fish kitchens crowded at night.
Customers, plate In hand, at counter,
two deep. Also hot sausage shops, eel
pie shops, kidney pie shops. Boiled
"winks" on hand cart. Otherwise salt
water snails. Picked out of shell with
pin.
Britain land OF bars, otherwise "pub-
lie houses" Our saloons there are "wine
and spirit vaults" Brass mounted. Heavy
brass work and railings outside. Endless
polishing required. British bar mounted
for heavy work. Heavy liquors, gener-
ally taken straight. Liquors cheap and
as a rule better than ours. All measured
out to customer. Customer never touches
bottle. Buy by tho "go." Thus "a two
penny go Of rum ga threepenny go Of
GIN" British bar divided into compar1-
mcnts and departments. To suit ella .as
and wants OF customers. Thus "bar
parlor," for sedentary and social drink
ling. "Bottle and jug department." or
Family Entrance" For the maid with
the family beer jug. Other departments
for stand up drinks. All front on same
bar. Bar maids abundant. Bars as free
to women customers as men. Equality
of privilege. Ditto at times of drunken
ness. especially on Saturday night at
London's East End. Drunken women
common in parts of London. Also wo-
men in rags. Also women in rotten
rags. Find them on sunny days sitting
in rows on curbstone. Blear eyed.
Slouchy, sooty, slovenly. Beg of you
for penny ~ you pass. Live on gin and
herring. Live in holes. Live anywhere.
Can't tell themselves where they do live.
One roof this week, another that. Not
much woman or humanity apparently
left in them.
Gin and milk favorite morning bever-
age. Among working classes. Reputed
nutritious as well as stimulating. Gives
massive headaches and runs in to knees
if too freely used.
Streets very cleanly swept. New York's
piGsty in comparison. Noliberty poles.
All flag stafrs sticking out of church stee-
pies. Economy Of space in burying
grounds. One grave holds entire fam
lily. Twelve feet deep ut first. One cof-
fin atop tho other. Ono tombstone does
for the family. Epitaph spaces left for
those who are to follow. No room for
long verses. Plethora of sepulchral and
CHASTITY taste. Skeletons in stone carved
over old church doors
Pomp at funerals. Coffins black.
Hearse horses ditto. With names two
feet in length. Tails sweeping the
ground. Peculiar breed. Raised for
funerals. Broke to hearses. Pirates
flag half yard in length from hearse
drivers hat. Plug hat. Hired mourn
ers. Clad in rusty black. More plug
hat and red noses. VIII mourn for you
at SO much per hour. No matter who
you are, where you came from, what
you've done or where you're going to.
Afterward adjourn to tavern near cem-
etery, and refresh on beer and cheese.
Ruby tint on end of nose renewed.
Ready for next mourn. Business Of
q prolonged perfunctory mourn. Ad-
vertisi ig posters with scale of prices for
fupc. ais common on streets. Four or
ave grades of funeral. Lowest fifteen to
twenty dollars Highest one hundred.
Burying a big business in England.
Everybody dies there some time in their
lives.
Copied following opitaph from Wool
wich grave yard:
Weep not for me, my parents dear,
There Ia no weakness wanted hcra