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Show A Little Heroine. Jeanne Victoire Snooke, 10 years of age, the daughter of C. Snooke, of Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, England, was on April 26, 1800, with her brother James, aged 4 years, on the landing stage of the old sallyport at Portsmouth a place which is a favorite favor-ite resort of children. Suddenly Jeanne was startled by the fact that her brother had fallen into the water, which was then twelve feet deep. Without a moment's thought about self, Jeanne sprang into the sea to the rescue. . The struggle was great, and both of the little ones sank and rose to the surface continually, but the brave elder child never quitted her hold of her brother. The tide was running run-ning strong and carried them away from the stage, and both must have been drowned had not H. Craven, of the chamberlain's office, Portsmouth, who was coming out of the harbor in a boat, gone to their rescue and got the half drowned, struggling children out of the water. For this act of bravery Miss Snooke was, on the 20th of May following, follow-ing, awarded the honorary first class certificate cer-tificate of the Royal Humane society. Philadelphia Times. |