Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-13 | Page 6 | amusements in Great Britain

Amusements In Great Britain. In London the places of amusement number about 550 or 600, including 450 music halls. Tho capital invested in London places of amusement Is little short of $20,000,000, without reckoning places like the Crystal palace, Albert hall, etc. Direct employment is given to about 150,000 people, besides indirect employment to a host of tradesmen and workpeople. The London theatres, music mu-sic halls and concert halls have accommodation accom-modation for about half a million of sight seers. The capital invested in similar places of amusement in Great Britain it over $30,000,000. Thi3 gives direct employment em-ployment to about 350,000 people and provides accommodation for nearly 1,250,000 spectators. Chatter, Hardly Courteous. During the epidemic of influenza in one of our cities a gentleman who was suffering acutely from it went down town one morning, and on the way met at least a dozen sympathetic friends. At the twelfth encounter his patience was exhausted. "Have you the prevalent cold?" Inquired In-quired his twelfth assailant, a burly, good natured man. "Yes," said the invalid, captiously! " have. Have you the prevalent sympathy?" sympa-thy?" The retort was hardly courteous, and the man himself felt ashamed of it afterward, after-ward, but at the moment it seemed to do him good, Youth's Companion.