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Show GOOD FRIDAY IN PARIS. ffc When Meat is Difficult to Get In the jj; French Capital. HI The son of a French friend ot mine, 1 n boy nine years of nge, when nsked by his tutor how Good Friday (Holy i Friday the French call It) differed 5 from other days, distinguished him- A self by tho epigrammatic answer, "On jf Good Fllday there Is less butcher's jj meat In Paris and many moro Kn- l gllshmen." The hoy described the dll h lorenco evnetly from n Paris point of (J view. Today Is the ono day In all the ;:;.' on which the Paris butcher closes J his shop and takes a holiday, and j meat Is exttemely dlfllcult to get In A Paris, except In restaurants, whoro, J of course, n small supply has been a laid In for customers who aro not 1 Roman Catholics, or who do not prac- J tlce abstinence from munt, oven upon 1 this ono dny. In Pnrls, whero ex- .M tremes of opinion of all kinds hnvo U always met, tho freethinker appears Jt in his most self-assertive form to-day. U There aro a number of'troo-thlnklng jJ clubs In Pnrls, nil of which meet In H great solemnity this evening, to, "pro- M test against tho tcnots ot nil H churches," to cat sausages, ham, pork, jjH and every form of pig's flesh they can- jjH think of, nnd to drink nt Intervals jM toasts to "tho downfall of religion." HI These Good Friday festivals of Paris IgjJ freethinkers aro very' harmless. Paris 91 Correspondence of London Pall Mall . Gnzctk'. - |