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LAND VALUES IN LONDON.
ASTRONOMY THEN AND NOW:
nat
the late Jay Gould's getting the batter of the entams through a olerical error with reistion to diamonds. Tuo section of the Act inquestion rond:
on the 24th AgasĔ. This titate shall come into foros two months after
be laid." the said 24th August. A report allt What was meant was:
on the 24th Angust this statuto shall gems into fores. To mouths after the sail 24th August's report shall be laid". The story has it that the ready. witted Jag rushed through a lot of diamonds anty-free, and so netted a million pounds.
Every great man or woman bas his or her weakness. non Victoria's took the form of innumerable under Rearing of words; Palmerston's was tho bestowal of capital letter upon every other words. Me. Birroll, ato mildly denounces those at confund will" and shall" himself trips over "who "and “ whom,' Mr. Chamberlain always loscribe things asi bolay different to," and reads that such and such engagements will prevent me making," and so on. Now this latter orror, Yo fuiss genitive, was one which Gladstond never forgaso, Sir Elward Hamilton tells us that he once "received gaste a homily" from Gladstone apon the latter's deeling in
letter, written by
by Sir Edward by his instractions, the misuse of the gositive. The curious par: is that Sir Edward, in a page near to that on which this incident is narrated, speaks of Gladstone's methods of Preparing sperolies as being different "to". That
But Mr. which is now in voguss. filados was not infalitis.
THE PACKET TEA TRADE.
WHERE CHINA AND JAPAN EXCEL
Das of the written productions of Gladstone which basic Edward's coram lation in his "Gleanings of Past Years." Nur in that thers occurs a remarkable blunder. The herco light that heats upon a throne," wrote Hadstone, is sometimes like the heat of that furunco in which only Daniel could walk unscathed, too fiores for those whose place it is to stand in its vicinity." Evory schoolboy nows that not Daniel, but Shuleach, Meshach and Alnego were the horces of the fresaco. Still, if he tripped in fets, the 0.0.M. nover In these days astronomers, ramarks a horr
a master of style, speaks of different to The recent sale of a plot of had trouting journal, are able to computs un cips with forget either grammar or grato. Lexi Rosebery, Piccadilly and St. James-strost at a price which wonderful exactress, even without knon-stians and Mr. Brodrick ankes Lord Kitchener works out to £31 per square foot, a Londonas was applied by the Chinoso Emperor Haurious'y differ "with" Lord Curzon, Lord contemporary romarks, gain emphasises the Ti, who directo his athematical tribunal that Esher wes ridiculed by one of the reviews for enortuous increase during recent years in the whether the instant of the occurrence of any the language of his War Offee report, which valus of L ndon's hud. It has she struck a Celestial phenomenon was errously assigned, was declars to abound in rap titions, to he nore of
rivalry in New York, where certain or the phenomenon its li at foressen or prono porpore, and to be in ganerat impression, experts in land vulno bave poitolous that real distel, either negligence shall be punish d
Not long after curls, wo are told, quite childlike. Not even the carsful Duke of Devonshire has invariably escape 1 diaster. ostato in their dy in much mou expensive, with death.
User his signature there stands this instrac- quoting the rate of 118 persquare foot obtained the twc Imperial astronomers, Ho and Hi.
to provide for the passing une last for a plot of land situated at the suffered death on the ground that an eclipse tion: in Juue
up the First and Sorond Cataracts of as msny corner of Wall-street and the Broadway. But had occurred which they had not for gen while London's experts in real estate are quite Hoang-Ti's edict is said to have been published of the Nils steamers as it may be possible anil
of land values in about the year 2000 B.C., but to Chinese cini Fady to admit that the story
of Parliament and of the Court Cirenlar" is New York has a strong romantic side, they deny to have attained to some knowledge of astronomy expedient. After this, the langage of Acts
lacid and in uproachable: that any city in the world can produce figures prior to that date. It is surely ecossary to of the value of land to equal those of London.say that while the Chinese had some knowledge "To my own knowlodge," si thommager of one of astronomy before progress is known to of the largest firms of estate agents in London. have been made with the sciones in Europe, thero have been pleta sold in London at a at the same time all, the claims of the rate of more than 118 per square foot. Bat Celestial Empire in this respect aro
It must be confessed that the packet toa our day. they have generally been disposed of by private admitted by the astronomers of treaty, and the utmost the public have learned Passing over the Chinese annals as of uncertain trao of India is not at all what it might be, says Intan Plating & Gardening. One has only of the transfors le been that a satisfactory value we find recorded on Assyrian tablets &
as filled and sold by the majority of deilors in price was obtuiuod. It is also pointed out by total eclipse of the sun which was observed at to examine the tin canistors and lead pickets stater egents that if skycrapers were the rule Nineveh, and counting back by mouse of modern
hohind the times. Even those colossal blenders, here, as in New Yorks, the price of laud, tables astronomers have been able to fix the date this country to realise that they are very muck ospecially in the uesghbourhood of the Bank,as June 763 BC. Then there was the much- would inereuse by about fifty per cout. Where discussed sclipse which was observed by Thales, Brooke, Bond, and Lipton, have yet to leara buildings of thirty storeys and more are erected uus of the wise men of Greece, on May 2, 18ow to put up their teas in the most attactive people can well afford to pay mon for the land BC. The story is well known of how a battle forms Indued, the British es a rale has much to learn from his forsign contemporaries in the than when the buildings are of the usual beloon the Medes and the Lydians was inter- London business type of tive or six slocoys. rupted by a total eclip of the sun, which made matter of putting up things in an attractivo Competent authorities aro of the opinion, such a powerfal impression am the minds of the form; for, after all, 1 is the eye that has first to be pleased. Whoa the Americaa buyer of combatants that they ceased lighting all in- however, that Loader's land values barn zow roached their mit. Erery year now sees more augurated a lasting pace. That there was waci | our pare green teas first saw them, he was not an eclipse is undoubted, but Herodotus states! LasoBrady in inferior to the Chinese pro- impressed by their appearance. He and more of the large manufactories which have been occupying valuable land no wally in thst Thales bail foretold the eclipse and fixed London
removed to the provinces or to the year in which it would take place, and that do slid not atop to consider whether
the tea self was puror and of better quality is the point upon which controversy has been convenient points on the fringe of the metropolis. It is, indeed predicted that at a focussed, it being object d that Thales canid he judged it by appearance, style, and make," time in the near future Loudon proper will be not have predicted the calipso without having and was not pleased; its "cap qualities" were entirely a city of offices. As to the present at his command certain facts which were not ignored. SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES value of land in London, it is, and always has entertained until long after his death. On the examine the handred and one things that are bona, atits maxitaom routil the Bank of England other had the contrary evidenc: that put up in must attractive looking packages by where a frockold site has sold at the rate of Thalos did predict in eclipse in that particular foreign (especially Gorms) firms to realise the immense importance attached to the outward If you zaffer from any disease da te na impure
forms" by buying public. Bat it is not yon maid test the valun- f Cmtae's Biond Mixtura, Yet there are no exceptionally high buildings ment, as it was boli rad to . brought to hit only the Enropean foreigner who has distanced. date of the Blood: FROM WHATEVER CAUSE ARISTse, £3,250,000 pr acre, or £75 per square foot. year is almost everstelming, and the achieve Ja ter time we find in that
the British teu dealer in the manner of putting thus work farmed Blood Purdier and Festorer Tywhere in that vicinity. Liigh land values great fame.
are not confined to the catre of the City. In invaluable record, the Saxon Chronicle, rofer- mdicine laer Jü years' rapat tion, wil is to-day move. popular than ever, the reason of this being doublod- y becate this wonderl remedy de stat Bond-street land has seld at the rate of £31 once to purtal anti total eclipses of the sau ap packet toas; even the Cainese and Japs are Professor to do-13 CORES SKIN A BLOOD DECARsr square foot, or more than £1,5000 per occurring in England from the year AD. 5 for hood of him in this respect. In London
the outward form, and have "tumbled to ere, and at. Charing Cross plots fronting to
the leading geneers have radial the valno of Tref lgar-square hava capital hue of £800,000
the idea; but in India! Well Lore anything to £1,000,000 par sere. In the Strand plots of
is considered good enough to pack tea in, and land havo sold at prices ranging from £1 to £29
yet the tea sold retail is not quits as good or as cheap as it can be hal in the London Grocers per square foot, or from £510000 to £970,000 Rentals are a sure intox to the valna
hops. Tam Times of Ceylon states that all per acro
this is going to be' changed, as far as Caylon is
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of laud, and in the Strand a firm of outfitters
of
to 1191, and the datos thereis given have been conliined from the tthlet
COMMAS AND COLONS.
THEIR GREAT IMPORTANCE.
intro00 Latholicni Libyrinth of wards, which sent 1
There is a Russian text-book for soldiers
pay a rent of 180 a year; whilora Cheapside Cosmas au colons, it gooms says a home, bentmaker pays £1,200 a year for a gonad-floor | paper, are the items inlinical to rapid progress shop and basement.
in the taking of the Peace Treily. If the The normons increase in the value of authorities engaged followed English procedent, London's laud daring the last thirty years they would ignore punctation Engleh law provides some almost starling gures. During cannot trust tolf where cominus and enlous that period the rentul value of the laul basar cane rnel, hat turns ont its logal instra increased by £10,000,00%, and the capital value meats anpuntuated. The mai-placing of a stop 17 £250,000 000. The present valas of the has many a time hrought disaster, as in the ense whole of the land in London is about of the telegram rul as Don't enus too late,' £418,00,000. Thirty years ago it was about which shoald really have bou. Don't conne; 1168,000,000. The increase in value is there too late." The telegraph department discour fore at the rate of 150 per dont In the ages panetusti a; it charges d. for each comma sarie period the ratus have increased in the and d, for que ation marks. The mm in th
street would be rather surprised if he saw the same proportion, that is, from £4,000,000 10 £10,000,000 par zxum. A striking feature of ordinary press telegram as it reaces the hand his great increase in the valin of land is that of the sabeditor, lacking articles, definite it is common to the whole metrop litau are and indefinite, counterious, quoʻation marks, Districts where one might look last for punctuation. The writer remembers one poor greatly increased values hare en tremen tou
man who gob au anulactoned Glaristona sut- Mac" filling four sheets of "Aimayit that advances. At Woolwich, for instance, s
sab-edi or raving from the office. plot of land increased in value by
a plot directly the free ferry was fa Fitzjohus-svence, Hampsterd,
which could was sold wo or three years ago for £9,60 which may well. crve as warning for the treaty. Sobody in authority at St. an acte, the agricultural value
designers. Petersbarg heard a drill sergant instructing not possibly be more than £50 por acre. It has
bis man from this tome of maxims. The been estimated that the Eyre, Portman, and Portland estates produce between thera an military service requires little prayer to Gd annual income of £1,200. But within and a stictattention to the order of a an purior." comparatively roast times the income was So one amusing mandate run. An axamination nothing near that figure. In 1888, when the of the book de manifest the intention of the Portman lenges foll in, one holder of a leasehold author: "The military service regnirea little building in Baker-stroot had her ground rent prager to G 4 and a strict attention to the orders inoreased from £10 10s. to 8 per annum of a superior." The sease cuald hardly have figures which indicate the rise in the value of besa more confused than by transposition of the the estate as a whole.
colur. Even the anxions sobular was little Wherever public parks have been opened, or more ut sex when set to point out the arrows as aller improvements affected, the value of land to (1) statement of fact; (2) syntax of the has increased. One of the earliest examples of sentences: "The ben has the fog." "Whe "The Len din't a plat thus enhanced in value was the site on core it "The answer was:
the Ewbankmant
School Board done it; God done it.” pccupied by
American Government officials know by this Ofices. In 1865 it changed hands for £8,250. Five years later, after the Embankment had time the monetary significance of the comme. Ouce this little iter east them £400,000. In boon built, the site sold for £26,420.
Estate agents prophesy that the City of drafting the Trif Bill, Congress decided that Westminster will see in future years just such
Now, & clerk, perversely enormous increases in land values as the City wong the articles to be admitted should he all
foreign fruit-plants, of London has seen in the past. Already Weet-
improve upon that gious, thought to
hyphen: le substituted a comma, minster has a ratesble value of £3,574.0.1, as compared with the City of London's rateable making the section to read, All foreign froit, value of £5,000,944.
The ro In the suburbs of Londen land values live plants, eta" Nobody fatected the improve.
neat, and the Bill became law, shown similar remarkable increases during
was that oranges, lemons, bananas, recent years. Land at Wimbledon has risen in
grapes, and every other species of foreign valos from £600 to £2,00 por acro during the trait had to enter duty free. It was against past fifteen years; while a liford, in half that period, the pains per sere has increased from £800 to £1,200. Au estate of seven and a half acres, bought in 186 for 23,500 was sold oven latar for £9,600, or a price of £1,280 per
the
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A with the latter. year elapsed before the error could be rectified, and in that time the ... estomas lost four hundred thousand pounds through the substitution of the comma for the hyphen. There is a similar story as to
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