Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13

which sets the simple countryman from Paris
gasping.
London has a larger area than New York,
Paris and Berlin all put together.
Ten millions of cells are annually consumed
In London.
A London fog costs s35, 900 for extra gas
burnt.
A thousand piano organs are played In the
London streets daily. This does not include
common hand organs.
Ten days of London fog cast 25 900 people
on beds of sickness.
About 1850, 900 articles are pledged with
London pawnbrokers weekly.
London consumes 4,000,0 900 quarts of peri
Wrinkles each year. There are 200 periwin-
kles to the pint. Total, 800, 900, 900 periwin-
kles. What becomes Of the shells?
About $500 dress suits are hired out in
London each night.
1t is estimated that in London fully 3,000,-
900 people never enter a place of worship.
There are 10000 paupers in London.
There are more than 1000 pledged alb
stainers among the London cabmen.
The London jam trade provides employ
ment for 10000 people and 65. 900 tons OF
sugar are used yearly in the trade.
More than ZOO, 900 ready made cigarettes
are smoked in London each day.
Twelve thousand people are employed at
the London theaters.
London has nearly 800, 900 maid servants.
Only one person in four in London earns
IS a week.
In the year 1894 some 5000 pewter beer
pots were stolen from North London public
houses. They are used to make counterfeit
money.
often called upon to furnish wedding cakes
weighing 1000 pounds each and buildings of
a size sufficient for 500 hearty appetites.
A single firm in st. Paul's churchyard
once received an order for 900, 900 ladies'
nantes from a retail customer.
London contains 25O 600 working single
women, whose individual earnings do not
average more than rs cents a day.
On an average every London policeman ar
rests but seven people a year.
London streets are very long and each one
Is crossed by an unlimited number of other
streets. running at right angles to 1t or cut
ting 1t diagonally or otherwise. From this
1t results that there are an unconsclonable
number Of street corners, each one the
junction OF two streets. or three, or four, as
may be. You may stand at any one OF them
without being tod to move on and take In the
vista Of that portion Of the town In which you
happen momentarily to be. In this way the
eye may grasp the perspectives OF two. three
or four streets successfully, almost simulta-
neously, without as much as ch1nging the
position Of ones body, In fact, by siraply turn
ing ons's neck. These streets are composed
as follows: A row OF houses to the right Is
paralleled at a distance OF fifteen, twenty.
thirty, forty or fifty feet by a second row OF
houses to the left, or vice versa, the fronts OF
SoSh io" VI hou@tS ihSAhB iu6 lIOuls oi III
opposite row OF houses, unless IL be the backs
which face each other, when II is a news, A
long and comparatively narrow space is thus
left between the rows Of houses, the center
being a roadway for vehicles and the edges
being for the safe passage OF pedestrians.
This is the street. When you get tired Of
walking on 1t you can call a cab and drive
back to your hotel.
II Is stated that London drinks every year
As, 900, 900 gallons Of malt liquor, 5000, 900 gall
Ions OF wine and IL, 500. 900 gallons Of spirits.
1t is estimated that the great smoke cloud
which sometimes hangs over London weighs
800 tons, fifty tons Of which is solid carbon
and $50 tons Of which is hydro-carbon. II
Is calculated that the smoke OF the year Is
worth $40, 900. 900.
London pays nearly a third OF the whole
income tax OF England.
There are over ~ 900 artists In London.
In the winter as many as 10000 per day
Of dead larks frequently find their way into
the London markets.
The COW population OF London Is 5000.
On an average rain falls in London on 1S2
days OF each year.
Over 1000, 900 pawn tickets for sums under
10 shillings are issued weekly in London.
One million eggs are brought into London
daily from Italy alone.
The exactly opposite spot TO London. on
the other side Of the world, Is Antipodss
island. which lies southwest OF New Zea-
land. There ought to be q quicker way 70
get there.