Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-04
MIGHTY LoNooN
IA Group Of Fs-ts About the Greatest
City in the World.

a Group of Fk-ts About the Greatest
City in the World.
There are 10000 pacpers in London.
There are over $4,000 artists In Lon
don.
London has nearly $4,000 maid ser.
wants.
The COW population of London IN
$4,000.
A London fog costs $35, 900 for extra
gas burned.
Only one person in four in London
earns IS a week.
Ten millions of eels are annually con-
sumed in London.
About $500 dress suits are hired out
In London each night
On an average rain falls In Londop
on 1872 days of each year.
Ten days Of London fog cast 5000
people on beds Of sickness.
London pays nearly a third Of the
whole income tax Of England
Twelve thousand people are em.'
ployed at the London theaterA
About ]. 1.25O.OOO articles are pledged
with London pawnbrokers weekly.
There are more than 1000 pledged abb
stainers among the London cabmen.
On an average every London pOlice@
man arrests but seven people a year.
More than 100000 ready made Gig
arettes are smoked In London each
day.
London has a larger area than New
York. Paris, and Berlin all put to-
Eether.
1t il estimated that in London fully.
100000 people never enter a place Of
worship.
Over 1.OOO.o 600 pawn tickets for sums
under 10 shillings are issued weekly in
London.
In London SCI streets are named
after the Queen. besides which there
are 167 Queen streets.
In winter as many as 10000 per day
Of dead larks frequently find their way
into the London markets.
A thousands plano organs are played
in the London streets daily. This does
not include common hand organs.
London contains 100000 working
single women. whose Individual earn
ings do not average more than 25 cents
a day.
The London Jam trade provides en-
plOyment for 10000 people and 5000
tons Of sugar are used yearly in the
trade.
A single firm in st. Paurs church
yard once received an order for 1,OOO.
900 ladies' mantles from a retail GUS
toner.
In the year 1894 some 1900 pewter
beer pots were stolen from North Lon
don public houses. They are used tc
make counterfeit money.
London consumes 100000 pints Of
periwinkles each year. There are 900
periwinkles to the pint. Total, SOO.OOO.-
600 periwinkles. What becomes of the
shells?
A London confectioner says that he
Is often called upon to furnish we'd
ding cakes weighing 1000 pounds each
and puddings of a size sufficient for
600 hearty nppetites.
1t Is estimated that the great smoke
cloud which sometimes hangs over
London weighs 300 tons. fifty tons OF
which Is hydro carbon. 1t Is calculated
that the smoke Of the year Is worth
$10.OOO.OOO.
London streets are very long and
each one Is crossed by an unlimited
number Of other streets running at
right angles to 1t or cutting 1t diagonal
ly or otherwise. From this 1t results
that there are an uncOnsciOnable num-
Der Of street corners, each one the juno
ton Of two streets, or three, or four,
as may be. You may stand at any
one of them without being told to move
on and take in the vista of that portion
Of the town in which you happen mo-
mentarily to be. In this way the eye
may grasp the perspectives Of two.
three or four streets successfully, al
most simultaneously, without as much
rs changing the position Of ones body,
in fact, by simply turning ones neck.
These streets are composed as follows:
A row Of houses to the right Is par
nlleled at a distance Of fifteen. twenty,
thirty. forty or ffty feet by a second
row Of houses to the left, or vice versa,
the fronts Of each row of houses facing
the fronts Of the opposite row of houses.
unless 1t be the backs which face each
other, when 1t Is n 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 cab and drive back to your hotel
1t Is stated that London drinks ev-
cry year 45.OOO.OOO gallons of malt
liquor, 5000 900 gallons OF wine and H..
10000 gallons of spirits.
One million eggs are brought into
London daily from Italy alone.-Chi-
cagO Times-Herald.
DOg-SOidiers.
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