THE GREATNESS OF LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2742, 8 February 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE GREATNESS OF LONDON.

Every four minutes murks a birth. In the next two honrs afler you rend this thirty babies havo boen born, and twenty deaths have taken place. Think of it I The evening paper that records the births and deaths of the preceeding four-and-twenty hours must give 300 separate itoms. Verily its joys and Borrows are a multitude. London has 7000 miles of streets, and if you walked them at tho rate of twenty miles a day you would have to walk almost a year, and more than a year by nearly fifty days, if you should rest on Sundays. And if you were a thirsty sort of a traveller, and couldn't pass a public house, don't be alarmed—the 7000 miles have 75 miles of public houses ; so you need not think of thirst. In a year London folks swallow down 500,000 oxen, 2,080,000 sheep, 200,000 calves, 300,030 nwine, 8.000,000 head of fowK 509,000,000 pounds of fish, 500,000,000 oyster, 200,000,000 lobsters—is that enough to figure on ! If not there are soma million tous of canned provisions, no end of fruit and vegetables, and 50,000,000 bushels of wheat. But how they wash all the food down you might feel glad to know. It takes 200,000,000 quarts of beer. But moro than this, they drink 10,000,000 quarts of rum and 50,000,000 quarts of wine—the wine, the rum, the beer, 2G0,000,000 quarts.— London Telegraph.