LIFE IN LONDON.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2211, 28 March 1881, Page 3

LIFE IN LONDON.

The London correspondent of the Melbeurne “ Argus ” says: In the most fashionable neighborhood water is now supplied in pails ; whereas milk is not. What is rather curious, the beat milk purveyors, such as the Aylesbury Dairy Company, of necessity now treat their customers the woret ; for all their cows living bona fide in the country, and the railways being blocked by snow, they are out off from their supplies ; whereas the smaller milkmen, whoso cows ive in the suburbs, or even occupy ground floors in town, are in no way inconvenienced. Another end even greater necessary threatens t> become scarce —our coals. The wise virgins who filled their coal collars before the snow came, contemplate the alarms of the foolish ones, their neighbors, with no little complacency, and “ regret ” when the next door sends in with its compliments and “would they bo so obliging,” &3., that they have only “just sufficient fuel for their own U‘o.” To judge by the number of coal-carts —almost the only heavy traffic, except the snow carte, that goes on in the etreete*—iin> would sny that there is a good deal of this domfS'io imprudence. Everybody's orders cannot be attended to itnmi diately, even at an advance of 20 per cent, a ton. The rise in oral will as ueual continue, no doubt, long after there is a necessity for it; for once the railway lines are free, the coal which is dug u-iderground, where frost does not seal it up, should bo free als '. What one really needs to bo afraid of i* u general scurvy, such us pievails in tho Arctic regions, through a prolonged absence of vegciuoKs. A turnip-top s gelling !o be a luxury, and carrots for soup are told by tho slice.