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Show M'lCIIUL FIJ.ITEKSHT. IW TAlilSIAN SWUIJIEKS I.IVE1IV SAVIG KACJt OTIint. A new niethou cl rallrg tbt Ini was rrcintlv reottcd to it I'arli by a co!p!o of prcciou Kramp?, which slioulJ Lave sue 'ceded if Ingenuity of thij kim treretntillcd to auy rxwatd. Tin ibarjcft Jeremy Diddlcr would not eabamtd cf the trick hit upon b; :l)ee Parisian gaminy. About li .'clock In the morning, he pasfeii long the Qunl du Marche aux Fleurp, uotlivd a 3'cung mau with very meUr.rlioly and ruiil-il ruiil-il Juuk .aiiuiii near oue t. ib LrIdgr-9 alcne. Sudden); e ci?t bis eyes upward as If to tak Iat view of the fkles, multerei ppareutly as If in prayer for i looienl, and then plunzed head Dg into tho river. While a) topped araljzcdat this attempt oung man came up, and, will reat simplicity, rsked what was th latter. The Individual who wa lounderlcg In tho turbid current o tie Seine, and who had just liscn ( he surface, was pointed out to him Iicn, at once stripping of hi-douse hi-douse aud ejaculating that h-rould h-rould save the unfortunate or per h lu the attemj-t, he plunged it dter him. The bystanders watched with realhlrfs anxiety as the heroii outli dived, came up to the s irfao id again went under in his en envois to save tho wretch who at emptcd his own destruction, and inally, when hope was nearly lost he crowd was n Joiced to see tb '"''- brought af bore with life fctlli in him. ciuce by was a house or statioi here half-drowneJ persons art rettorcd, and where thoeo who rea ao tliem receive the municipal reran! re-ran! of 25 francs. Thither the rescued res-cued and the rescuer were borne by the crowd which had assembled, the 'alter overwhelmed wilii the ad miration and praise his gallantry ailed forth on all sides; but, for ornately, just an tbe reward was ibout to be given him, aud while a -uuscription for aa additional Rim was being raised, a policeman -teppod up who knew them Loth. Hie.r were brothers, say London id-tiili, and were two of the best -rwimmers in Paris, and mode it a business going about saving each other's lives for a living. |