A Fireman's Fall

An incident that bappened in a large ! cotton flre in the lower part of New York some years ago bad its coraic side and was the means of the firemen discovering the main body of the fire, which for some time they had been en; deavoring in vain to lócate. ïhe smoke was pouring out of nearly evirypartof the building, and altbough several entranoes had been made it had been impossible to find the seat of the fire. The chief in charge ordered some ! Windows on the third floor to be "opened np, " and a ladder was accordingly raised and a fireman ascended. With the aid of a hook he pried open the iron shutters, and, lamp in hand, Btepped in - and disappeared. His companion upon the ladder, wonderingwhy be had so suddeuly vanished froin sight, peered in, and fonnd that he had stepped into the elevator shaft that wasdirectly under this wiudow and liad fallen through to the basement. Hastily descending, he alarmed the others, and, forcing an entrauce, they made tbeir way to the cellar. Here tbey found their comrade in a sitting position npon a bale of cotton, partly stunned and dazed from tbe shock of the fall, bnt otherwise uninjured. In bis hand be still held the wire handle of bis lamp - all tbat remained of it - while in front of biin, farther in the basement, blazing rnerrily, was the fire they bad been en deavoring to find. His fall had led hiin directly to it. Ou afterward examiuiup; the hatchway, or shaft, tbrough which he had fallen, they found tbat it bad bars running diagonally across at eacb floor, and in some marvelous way he had escaped each one n his downward flight.- CharlesT. Hill in St. Nicholaa, Prnyn - The peasantry in nrcpe have a much easier time thanfornierly, do they not? Returned Traveler - As a rule, yes. Scotland is the one exception. There the poor things have to live up to their novelista. - Brooklyn Life. Parisian restaurant keepers mix a little houey with their butter. This gives it an agreeable taste and flavor and makes the inferior butter more palatable. The pearl fisheries in the gnlf of Manaar are the most important in India. According to Friar Jordanus, 8,000 boatswere engaged in this gulf in liJSO.