Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . KOUXD A DRINKING CHURCH OK ENGLAND FUNERAL PROCESSION (HIGHGATE CEMETERY). BIRYING LONDON. By T. W. WILKINSON. T HE Angel of Death seems to continuoush hovering over London. While he ma} not visit a secludedvillage once in a }-ear, he spreads hiswings over some one of the myriad housesin the might)- city every six minutes, andbears away an immortal soul. Ten timeshourl) does a mortal spark return to itsAlaker, leaving its earthl} tabernacle todescend to the dust from which it
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . KOUXD A DRINKING CHURCH OK ENGLAND FUNERAL PROCESSION (HIGHGATE CEMETERY). BIRYING LONDON. By T. W. WILKINSON. T HE Angel of Death seems to continuoush hovering over London. While he ma} not visit a secludedvillage once in a }-ear, he spreads hiswings over some one of the myriad housesin the might)- city every six minutes, andbears away an immortal soul. Ten timeshourl) does a mortal spark return to itsAlaker, leaving its earthl} tabernacle todescend to the dust from which it it is in consequence of the frequency ofthis natural separation—due, of course, to thesize of the Metropolis, and not to an excep-tionally high rate of mortality—that death isa great, ever-present fact in the worlds in nearly all business thoroughfaresis the industrial side of lifes dissolution. Inthe shopping streets of the West-End arewindows filled with mourning, the show-cases of the principal firms which can, onoccasion, put ladies in black in twent\-fourhours. \\reath-makers, ranging from thema
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