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A Sunday In London

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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London pays :ül possible respect to the Sabbath. ' It is the oharacteristio of English in contradistinction to the Frencb people that Sunday is kept gftcred to holy dutiea. In i'nris the shops are o]icn on Sunday, and the operas and theaters give tneir grándest periormances, the ehief electiona are bi ld, and the rcat horse races take place in the Bots de Baulogne. Paris devotes Sunday to just those thinga which England and America would think least appropriate to the day bnt London koeps Sunday as closely as Philadelphia, alrnost all the population g-oinr to oburoh ortaking innooenii recreation in the afternoon in the parks er Buburbs, Consequeatly tba Ijondon SuiK'.ay, wil h the store-i all closed, tho streets alraost deserted, except by 1 church goers, and all the church bells I ringing;, has a close reseuiblaiicu to an ' American Sabbath,

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus