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Show puisned with trihing ilamnge, but tho house wns full of smoke, Suddenly a woman tottered to tho open window. In her arms sho held a bundle, tightly clasped to her bosom. It was in white wrappings. (Quickly the crowd of people in the yaril below saw the woman. Groat clouds of smoke whirled about her head in suffocating volumes, and the crowd call' d upon her to jump. She hesitated, but extended the bundle at arm's length, from, which at that moment mo-ment the! ) came a. faint cry. It was baby's voice. "Save my child !" implored the woman. Instantly a blanket was procured and strong men held its corners. "Drop it:" they shouted. With li er faco averted tho agonized nnd iuiiH'iilled mother let the baby fall. Down llie little one fluttered liken white winged, wounded bird, with the despair-hip; despair-hip; cry of "Mamma" upon its lips. Lightly it struck tho blanket, nnd a moment mo-ment later it was tikoti up safo and nound, but sobbing, by a motherly looking look-ing woman in tho throng. It required but a few minutes to raise a ladder and rescue tho self sacrificing mother from her perilous position and restore her dimpled darling to her arms. This touching rescue was loudly cheered by the sympathetic spectators, New York Herald. Suved a IJrtMy from J)e:,th. During a small tenement house fire on tho east sido there was a thrilling incident inci-dent that waa not chronicled at f he tune. It occurred at a rear window in tne second sec-ond bioiy. The tiumcij had i" . |