TOPICS OF THE DAY.
LONDONERS pay dearly for their fogs, and the gas companies reap a corresponding benefit. On November 16, a day of dense and continuous fog, the quantity of gas burned amounted to nearly 150,000,000 cubic feet, at a cost to consumers of about $100,000. Of this fully $35,000 was chargeable directly to the fog. The consumption for that day beat the record.
MONTREAL’S fire losses during the elapsed ten months of this year aggregate $1,696,449. For the whole year 1886 they were $1,147,218; 1885, $692,649; 1884, $71,393 ; 1883, $951,292; 1882, $518,319. In other words, during the past two years the loss has increased from an average of $57,720 monthly to one of $169,645, nearly three times as great.
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