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Show BLACK AND WHITE. Headllners at tlic Empress This Wook. THE two acrobatic youne women, whose act is one of tbe head-lino head-lino attractions at tbe Empress tliis week, relate a novel cx-nerionco cx-nerionco in which tbev figured promi nently while playinjr Melbourne, Australia, Aus-tralia, about a year ago. "Wc were stoppine at a .small hotel, which was a sort of headquarters for members of our profession. Our rooms were on the second floor. One night wo were just irottinc ready to rotiro, when a bell bo.y rushed past our door screamintr Tirol' Tt seems that nn oil lamp had exploded ou our floor, setting fire to the carpet. A strong draft sent the flames running along tho hall carpet, car-pet, quickly filling tho hall with smoke. We ope'ned our door, and the smoke rolled into the room in a dense cloud. We closed the door and opened tho window. The smoke continued to pour into the room through tho cracks at the top and bottom of the door, and tho situation was rapidly becoming so alarming that we decided we could not wait for the ladders. "Bracing ourselves on the window edge, which was about eighteen feet above tho sidewalk, we both jumped, and in doing so executed a.,tu.rn in the air so common to acrobatic performers and ono that breaks the force of tho fall. We both alighted on our f.eet unharmed, but ii I over saw an astonished aston-ished lot of . firemen and spectators, it was that crowd, as most of them undoubtedly un-doubtedly ex-pected to see us land on our heads when they saw us make that eomer?aiilt in midair.J' |