The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-11-02
MIGHTY LONDON.

MIGHTY LONDON.
The cow population Of London IN 49,
600. z
There are over 1900 artists In Lon
don..
Loadoa has nearly $4,000 maid SER
wants.
A London fog costs $4,000 for extra
gas burned.
Only one person in four in London
earns IS week.
Ten millions Of cells are annually con-
sumed In London.
About $500 dress suits are hired out
in London each night.
Twelve thousand people are employed
at the London theatres.
On an average rain calls In London
On 1Sa days Of each year.
Ten days Of London fog cast $4,000
people on beds OF sickness.
London pays nearly third Of the
whole income tax Of England.
One million eggs are brought into
London daily from Italy alone.
About 100000 articles are pledged
with London pawnbrokers weekly.
London has q larger area than New
York, Paris and Berlin all put together.
More thaa 1000, 600 ready made cigar
cites are smoked In London each day.
On an average every London police
man arrests but seven people . year.
It 10 estimated that In London fully
5000. 900 people never enter a place of
worship.
Over 100000 pawn tickets for sums
under 10 shiNiAga are issued weekly In
London.
In London 81 streets are named after
the Queen, beGldAs which there are 167
Queen streets.
In winter as many as 10000 per day
Of dead larks frequently ind their way
into the London maketA
A thousand piano organs are played
not include common hand organA
There are $4,000 paupers in London.
There are more than 1000 pledged
abstainsrs among the London cabmen.
It is stated that London drinks every
year 100000 gallons Of malt liquor.
10000 gallons Of wine and 1850. 900
gallons Of spirits.
The London jam trade provides en-
ploymsnt for 10000 people and $1,000
trade.
London contains 40. 900 working SIN
gle women, whose Individual earnings
do not average more than Is cents
day.
A single firm In st. Paul's church.
yard once received an order for 1,000,-
900 ladies' nantes from a retail custo-
mer.
In the year 1894 some $4,000 pewter
beer pots were stolen from North Lon
don public houses. They are used to
make counterfeit money.
London consumes 4,o0o,00o pints of
periwinklss each year. There are 200
periwinkles to the pint. Total, 100000
600 psriwinkles. What becomes of the
shells?
A London confectionsr says that he
is often called upon to furnish wedding
cakes Weighing 1000 pounds each and
puddin9s OF a size sufficient for 500
hearty appetites. ..
It il estimated that the great smoke
cloud which sometimes hangs over Lon
don weighs 900 tons. nifty tons Of which
is solid carbon and $50 tons of which
is hydro-sarbon. It il calculated that
the smoke Of the year ia worth 1o,000.-
600.
London streets are very long and
each one is crossed by an unlimited
number OF other streets running at
right angles to it or cutting 1t diason-
ally or otherwise. From this 1t results
that there are an unconscionab1e 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 momen-
tarily to be. In this way the eye may
grasp the prospectives Of two, three
or four streets, successfully, almost
simultaneously, without as much as
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 - par
alleled at a distance Of fifteen, twenty,
thirty, forty or fifty feet by 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 it be the backs which
face each other, when it is q news. A
long and comparatively narrow space
Is thus left between the rows Of houses,
the centre being a roadway for vehicles,
and the edges being for the safe pas
sage Of pedestrians. This is the street.
When you get tired Of walking on it
you can call q cab and drive back to
your hotel.