Show SOME FACTS ABOUT LONDON the british capital Is a big town beyond all question A child Is born every three minutes and a death Is registered every alre minutes the city contains over railway station nearly miles of railway line and eleven railway bridges span the thames dally 1 persons travel on the underground railways and 2 in 5 omnibuses 7 hansoms 14 cabs and 7 tram cars the total population Is between and four thousand postmen deliver 10 letters weekly walking a distance equal to the circumference of the globe sixty thousand letters are written a day consuming thirty gal ions of ink ten thousand allee of overhead telegraph wires almost shut out the smoky canopy which spreads above the london streets and the number of telegraph messages received in london last year was over ninety million gallons of water are consumed dally london correspond Corre spon dence st louis post dispatch |