Show old world news LONDON dec indications Indica lions are constantly being afforded of the remarkable growth ofal e british metropolis I 1 ho latest la lire turn prepare tl by the clerk to the met m board the gross and rateable values of lie various parishes and unions 0 london prior to the return is to the value of house and property was about fifteen million gross aej fourteen millions rateable value but this years return shona an increase of hilly eight millions grow and thirty ono millions rateable this is a truly astonishing accretion and although of course it in not the case that london lias increased in size to this degree yet the additions to it must leave been very large to account for alie change in the lime of james the first it was imagined that alie growth of ane capital could be stayed by legislative enactment and all builders of new houses were threatened feitli fine and imprisonment aven in the days of our grandfathers an idea prevailed eliat london was growing BO large clial any increase ought to be stopped nowadays we know that even if any plan to this end could be devised it would not be right to pat it in operation the growth is perfectly natural and as far as it has yet gone is a sign of health rather alian of disease how cosmopolitan is growing is shown by the fact that an association has just been formed composed of the foreign journalists who work in this metropolis there are many more of these gentlemen than would be imagined by any who hae not attempted to realize tho importance which is attached the whole world through to what is passing in the english capital an idea p this may be gathered from the fact that the president of the new association represents a paris journal while of ils three committee doeu ono is from leipsic another from rotterdam an J a third from florence and in order blat every nationality shall have a fair chance 0 byias represented freeli president will be chosen every year and i possible will represent a different people the foreign journalists in london desire to have their status more definitely recognized than at present they complain for instance that the facilities afforded in paris to correspondents of the newspapers of other nations are far beyond any given in london and hey believe that by organized effort they will be able to improve a state of things which to them appears intolerable the philosophy of clothed on which professor threw some light in his dayis still it would seem only in ltd infancy the latest novelty is tho formation amone the young city clerks in london of a scheme founded OB alie principal for outward adornment at the expense the system of alie new association ur syndicate is aa follows each member pays a small entrance fee and annual sub crip tion ader which negotiations are into with a fashionable tailor and various suits of ordered on the credit of the association groups of three or more members of anco the same height and build alien meet and had for drat second or third choice the highest bidder has the right to wear the new suit for three months after which be passes it on to the next highest bidder who wears it for six months finally passing it on to the lowest bidder who struts in the syndicate garments for eighteen months these are finally disposed of by contract at five shillings per suit the subscription and the bids are estimated to leave a surplus after paying the tailor to bo divided among alie thrifty young maskiers mas liers at the end of the year much attention has been aroused in I 1 this country b the order just issued by the emperor of germany that those employed at bis court shall not wear moustaches mou staches learned dissertations have been published to elbow that the custom thug forbidden is in england itself of comparatively recent growth and gliatas recently as thirty years since every wearer of a moustache was thought to be either a military officer or billiard billia rj sharper or an importation from a foreign land it was intact not considered respectable to be ahns adorned adur ned and although that opinion has largely died out are still sumo quarters in which i t continues to as Is evidenced from the circumstance that D one cf alie most famous banks in london or indeed in the country the clerks are strictly forbidden to apoi t either moustache or bard als rule partakes somewhat of the nature ot that sumptuary legislation in matters of raiment was somewhat forefathers and tho curious thing about confined to such old countries aa england and germany alven la america and in alie decidedly advanced city ot there ia a hotel where the waiters in obedience to their employers command have to aboor clean ellaven eli aven human nature is evidently the bamo athe elioe world over and regulations which might be thought to bo peculiarly in favor with old spring up ia new ones with curious facility the follow ing ig rather an odd tale but it is going alie round in aaris it in related that fl coniton Coni tod V who had once upon a time aide de to WB attended in his 1 years by an old lady who ia called georgette la alio ot july last there audi lenly appeared upon the acene a distant tr r live of the old man the to hare much busier with poi Bona and day iu lie of auguar abe count in aliu of doun in lia armchair needle an hour actor ft as hurt by a wards ho experienced a speedily epe edily developed into and a few daya latar lie alie relative inherited atje ol 01 the ilece and uie ant took up her abode with a friend but ahe baa just her klo mastera relative on hie around that the was aad it in re potted the individual a wanted |