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Mighty London

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
November
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Den thousand new bornees are antrually added tothe 700,000 dweliïngs wiiich shelter Landon's population ol 5,000,000. Sixty milrs i; ahöpe open cvcry Smid.iy in lnuilnii, and l'icri' are 1,400 places of worablp cund 12,000 public bornee. Iite BtatLsticM show that out of London's 5,000,000 iuIialHianls more tiban 300,000 families caru li'ss that :: ■hJTHmgw o. day . Tlieire ure 99 dttfereot baaldng cwnpanife 'in l-oaidon. Tho bank of England turfta out abCHit CJ+,000,000 wxH-tih of inote a -week. Ixmdon'e ha.s over 700 acreage of locks. Thoee at Tilbury are large nongii to acco.mmoil.iic the whole ahippllng ol London. Ten inilUüii lel bers are deliTered eaoh week in Loados by avwr 4,000 postïncii, win) walk a (üstancc equa.1 to twtoe tin' (rciimicri'ncc of Ihe gobe. London's 60,000 Kt reets, ii jiut end to emd, ■vml(l reacfa trom I.hikIoii to St. TcterslHirjr, yet somt' 80 miles of new streets are laid out yearly. A Imi-Mi talies place iu londoto evcvv tbree mimitM and a leatli every fivo minutas. Eecent-ly tilia lnvtlis rei:stiTr(l 1 ;■ t 11" iimiib ■! of (l.'atlis. Ixnidon's urea, is laxger tlian New York, J'aris and Berlín pul tpgetliet, an airea wtücb miiy be representad by a clrcle o4 1 iiirty-six miles ia lia.iii' monefbary value ol tliis migbty Babyloo is wortii i' -- times as ranch .-is j'.-u-N. Muere n !■;■ li.ty people wlth I A 00,000 B yi'ai' casiji. It ha been calculated tbal the aniiikiI tnocraae oí i'ir i.nini.ni Jews is ly L5,000,000, whk-h meanB ihat tJne Ji'us are - L-2 times rlctaer than (i'iltili'S ;vt'. Nearly 1,000 cblldreai are lxrn yearly in I.oikíoh workhouees. Two ' yetura ago linir wre more than 12,ooo ablebodled paupers in tJioso charita.b!c imatituttans.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier