Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1889 — [?]eries of Loudon Life. [ARTICLE]

[?]eri es of Loudon Life.

Coleridge long ago recognized the existence of no fewer than sixty distinctly different stenches at Cologne, and it was perhaps the multiplicity of malodorous emanations in tiro city of the Dom that incited the original Jean Mario Farina to devise the delicious perfume which bears liis name. London, however, ia a city which far surpasses Cologne, if no! in the number, at least in the intensity and the noxiousness to health of its evil smells. We have the smoke always with ns, to begin with, which, as London continues to grow, and sea-coal is burnt i open flre-plac-,, mo t stupidly constricted, must noc-- -uvijy increase in volume and in pouonons attributes every vear. Wo have still, to judge from its color, a river which it; terribly polluted, and in which, below bridge, few fish can live; and where there ia pollution of water unpleasant odors must necessarily follow. The main drainage is, no doubt, a magnificent engineering work, but our house drainage is still lamentably imperfect, and out dust bins are so many liot-beds of disease, the perils of which are aggravated by the tardiness of dust contractors, the extortions of dustmen, and the apparently incorrigible laziness of servants. Our greatness as a commercial and manufacturing metropolis demands that we should carry on within our borders snch industries as the boiling and burning of bones, the making of glue, size, white lead, leather, varnish, tallow and chemical manures; and it would he interesting to ascertain how many millions of feet of carburetted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas there are liberated every year from the furnace of our gas-works and the 1 “fermenting squares” of our breweries. There is not a railway station in London that is not a focus of more or less pestilent smell. There is not a mews behind an aristocratic square or street that is not a hot-house of mar Waitin' London Times.