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Show The decision of the Centennial manager at Philadelphia to close the exhibition on Sunday ia causing much excitement and indignation. This decision will compel poor people to go only in the evenings, when they must go repeatedly to see what they might look at leisurely on the Sabbath, and greatly increase the expense of going in, or oblige them to loso a day to get a sight of the great show. Some of of the Philadelphia papers exhibit the popular feeling very strongly, con-1 tending that lar mora barm will bo done to public morals by the exclusion of the people from the exhibition than if it were open, and that many who1 would spend their Sundays in viowingj the works of industry and art, may he i driven to more questionable places! and practiced. |