Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — The Growth of London. [ARTICLE]

The Growth of London.

An important return has been issued by the Metropolitan Board of Works, showing the ’ number of inhabited houses, population and ratable annual value of tiie parishes and districts comprised within the metropolitan area in the year 1856 and 1857, or as near those dates as can be accurately stated.” According to this return it appears that the total ratable annual value has more than doubled itself within the twenty years. In 1856 the amount was Al 1,283,663, and in 1876 it was £23,114,313. The total number of inhabited houses has increased from 300,086 in 1851 to 419,642 in 1871, but in this column a decrease to shown in respect of the City of London. The number of inhabited houses In the City of London in 1851 was 14,488, but in 1871 there was only 9,235. In 1861 the population of the metropolis was 2,362, 460. and in 1871 it had increased to 3,2«6£W. —Little Johnny, who is on a visit to his grandmother in the country, writes his first letter to hie mother at home: Potater-bugs is plenty, an I enjoy ’em very much ’cause they makes gran’father swear, an every time he biles over he spilis his false teeth, an he always forgets ware he spills’em, an he hires is to roust ’em out. So yer see hunfrln’a good here. He pays us in pigs an fore the seeln’s over I think ile have enuf to start a swine shop. Tell Bam Jenkins, ’cause it’ll make liim hoppin’ mad to know ime havin such a binanzer.