People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — London's Daily Drinks. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

London's Daily Drinks.

Some interesting figures concerning the quantity of liquor consumed in London are given in Cassell’s Magazine. It appears that about 177,000,000 gallons of (British) beei*are drunk in London yearly, and 485.000 gallons daily. Taking 485,000 gallons as 78,000 cubic feet, a barrel 76 feet long by 36 feet in mean diameter, measured internally between the bung and the head, will hold this quantity. The quantity of wine consumed in a day is about 5,500 gallons, or 44,000 pints, which could be stored In a wine vault 52 feet square and 1 foot deep. Of spirits—home and foreign—about 16,000 gallons are drunk daily by Londoners. The tea consumed yearly in the metropolis amounts to 33,000,000 pounds, or about 90,000 pounds daily, against 112,000 pounds daily of coffee beans, and 8,800 pounds of cocoa.

VICE-PRESIDENT HOBART.