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Show Cbarch Nicknames. There aro a great many churches y in this city that are known better by tlieii' alanR names than by any other. First and foremost is "The Little Church Around the Corner," Ihit ia novcr called by any other name. Before it received tha', name, however, it was called tho "Church , of tho Holy Cucumber," from tlte way in which it covers tho erounJ.. . The present namo lias beeotno i ; so popular that few know it by any ' other, and I conld not now tell you what its real namo is. When the excitement about this church was at its height, I used to see a drayman's dray-man's cart about town with "The Little Church Around the Corner" painted in big letters on tlio dashboard. dash-board. Tlio Kev. Dr. Bellows' church, which is built oi alternate layers of marblo and brick, is known hs the "Holy Zebra," or the "Beef-Bleak." "Beef-Bleak." There is a church further up town of the Dolly-Varden style oi architecture, that goes by the name of the "Holy Oilcloth," St. Albans Al-bans is called the "Holy Candlestick," Iroin its very biyh-churcb biyh-churcb tendencies, and there is another known as the "Great Tea Warehouse ot Prayer." An Episcopal Episco-pal church on Fifth avenue, in the ' neighborhood of Murray Hill, whose rector and curato have each the unenviable un-enviable reputation of being dirts, is known as tho " Church of tho Huiy Jilts." Thero are other churches with slang names, but these are among the beat known. JV. Y. Ltti-jr. |