A Line From London

Tlw following is froun a private letter to the editor, wrttten ior pub'ir.ticv:i liy I)-. O. r. Darling, ex-mayor of Aan Arbor, now fcraveUng abro ad : Speakiiag of the landlord of Burr's Hotel, the Dr. says : "He seemed very kind and promised to teil me all about Ivondon. I plied him about two hoyare the iirst moraiing with questions upon the subject a.nd he has not Bliown up since. He pnobably fears I wiü iearn too much about the tow.a and say soine injurious thlngB about it when I return to America. "T!he peo-pie here Cío not seem so toucJiy about their towu as Ami Arboa- peoplo do. "I was on tJie 'Strand' ior some ■time this aftermoon. . You migbtt Bay I was Btranded, foir go which way I woiuld, I was save to get lost. I aisked a policemain lnov I sbould get home and he advfeed me to take an ommïbus, some of whieh would go Tery near the hooise. I tried to ■stop a few of tliem and converse with tllie tlrivei-, bat it seemed to be their lmy day, and after yellöig sometliing aliout Ijondon Bridge ar Clielsea, Dellii ov some other place off iny beat, lnn-iied along, just as the song ■"London Bridge' says they do. "It was growtog late,' and sometJïimg" must be done. So I took a chance mount on ome wbich. landed me a:t thO Baaik. Tliis was aot what you mdgfcfc Oall great progresa, so I puit lt down unxler tlie liead of experienceT You see I was trying to tafee care of two l&dies and see tliem iiomie "as well as look after myself ■ I gtood o the corner and saw several hmin'dred 'usees pass, trying to find on tiiat was going my %vay. Finally I eaw 'Halborn' o.n the sidO and I dhased ftt again with pretty fair sucoess. "To-moTTOW we expect to take a trip up tiie Thaïnes to soine o! the jiaiks and spend the day tliere. "We leaTO Mo,nlay nigh ft Berlin. You ,seo we (ptey only tn ie lavgest cities, atrwl nolfc in all of them."