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Show j Klopenicnti. hi London. j A careful newspaper reader, resident ! in London, who has given much atten-l atten-l tion to elopement statistics, states that , on au average four elopements take ! place ill London every week. This rAmld j give a total for the year in round nnm-i nnm-i bers of 200 in a population of something like 5,000,000. Presuming that the Hum-I Hum-I ber of elopements all over the country is in the same proportion we have a total ; elopement list of about 1,500 ler year, j Now that a Gretna Green marriage is ' a thing of tho past elopements seem to be on the wane. It is stated that at j Gretna Green toll house alone 200 couples cou-ples were sometimes united in a year. : London Tit-Bits. i |