The London and Norths Western Company maintain the astonishing amount of no less than 10,00.. miles of rail. The " • capital embarked in this vast aggregate amounts tonoless a sum than £100,000,000 ' while itsi average weekly receipts fall little, short of £200,000. The campany annually carry nearly* 50,000,000 passengers, and ".'; between 30,000,000 and 40,000,000 tons qf!;-^ merchandise and minerals, in the ??!9fSj' S veyanee of which their . trains . i l!^,^' 25,000,000 miles, while there is employed. -: an army of 40,000 men. i v . .;!>
You can excuse a man for taking a a; gloomy view of life when he names his child for a rich UQole and the uncle allows * ib, and then the day after baptism goe« into baukruptcy.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 13 July 1881, Page 2
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118Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 13 July 1881, Page 2
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