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Show BOWING TO TH C ALT A 9 Tbo ancient practioa of bowing to the altar in English cathedrals, and, by some old fashioned people, in remote country churches, ia still maintained at Oxford. Tbe story i-t told there that when the present Marquis of Bath, who has an enormous enor-mous idea of bin own importance, and is credited with the remark tbat it would take two generations to efi-tce tbe tarnish done to his escutcheon by tbe alliance of bis father with the commercial house of Baring, 'flrnt came up to college and observed tbe dean and canons of Christ church making an obeisance in tbe direction where he waa standing, be deemed it nothing more than a very proper attention to bis exalted aelf, and atlably returned tbe bow. A clergyman who recalls this anecdote in a. London periodical adds that some forty years ago be officiated among simple-minded folks in a remote pariah, and made a similar blunder, only with tbia diflerenoe, tbat he remonstrated with an aged parishioner who gave birn in ft very decided manner to underaUnd that the revtrence waa to the Almighty, and not to a man. Tii-j lite Priuce CLnaort fell n.ti a similar error, and met a like rebuff. |