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Show Ilruln la Church. The last place from which one would expect to bear of a bear invading in-vading a church during the divine tervice would be the city of Ijondon, yet it was in the heart of that dly, and not In Kamtchatka or IlritMi Columbia, that such an invasion recently took place A service was In pngri- at a Nonconformist diajie in the English Eng-lish capital one Sunday morning net long ago. The good pastor had just announced his text, "lie not afraid," when a lady in the congn gation uttered a scream and started toward the pulpit, looking took toward the door as alio did so. The movement attracted the attention at-tention of the congregation toward tho back of the church, and there they saw a large bear taking a teat in an unoccupied pew, as if ho intended in-tended to participate in the worship. Notwithstanding the peaceable araeCtof the bear, thu women and dilldrcn continued to leave their pews and take refuge around the julpit, ai If they expected the minuter min-uter to defend tbem, and there was general relief, even among the men, when the proprietor of Uie bear, an Italian, entered tho church, bowed respectfully and ai- : ,and, attaching a !-- V u rju,j iu the bear's nose, led him out. It seems that the bear, one of tho European tort which win coppers for their owners by dancing, had been accidentally freed for a moment mo-ment In front of the church, and had seen the half-open door and entered. en-tered. It is possible that he had been attracted by the sound of the hymn thu congregation had sung, for many bears are known to be fond jf music. Youths' Cumpanion. |