Captured By A Penniless Girl

Some years ago Miss Anna Longstreth was a beautiful, penniless girl, and worked in the Philadelphia Mint. One day, a party of sight-seers camo through and stopped to mop their brows, for it was July, in the adjusting-room. This department of tho place is, in the warm months, simply a "Black Hole of Calcutta" on a sma.ll scale, and the poor wonien and girls; who toil there sometimes till late at night, fall down and faint, and are dl'OSged out to revive by the dozen. Jn the party that stopped near Miss Ix}ng8treth were Lord Bement, who owned, and still owns, extensive landed inteiests in the West, and his companion, Captain Jasper Richardson, H. N., agallant young blade with an income of seventy-fivo thöusand dollars a year. The young Englisbmen were seeing the country, and had intended to "do" it trom Niágara to the Yosemite. Bnt captain Richardson feil so desperately in love with Miss LOQEStreth, so cora;as;sionated her condition in the terrible heat of the room from which, durin; most of the working hours, all air and draught were necessariiy excluded, that he concluded to marry her out of hand if she would have hini. And his frlend, Lord Ticment, did his beist to help hipa. They succeeded in persuading Miss Longstreth's párente, who had been rich and then were very poor, of the gennineneflS of Captain Kichardson's afTection, and the wedding took place. Her life in London has not thrown Mrs. Richardson much with other. fair Americana. She has become one of her husband's family, and met with much favor at court. She is described ! as a perfect beauty, brunette, tall, voluptuous, with apieat coil of black hair on her neck, and her bosom as o Den as court rules prescribe even in