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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2341, 4 October 1881, Page 4

Man Overboard. The following good story is told of Fechter, the actor:—Tho great effect in a pieoe in which he was playing was the crossing of a ship over the stage, the waves being due to the heads of a dozen small boys working about under the oanvas ocean. But one night, as the ship came gliding across the stage, with Fechter as fto captain standing in the prow, there in the midst of tbe watery waste stood a small boy. Tho eyes of the audience were upon him, and the illusions of the stage were about to give way, when Fechter shouted, "Man overboard!" and reaching ont over the waters as the ship sped on its way, he seized the urchin by the shoulder and lifted him over the bulwark into tbe vessel.

A British heroine, Mrs Smith, widow of the Bandmaster of tho Thirty-seventh Eegimerit, arrived on a transport ahip in London recently, with other invalids from tho South African war. At the battle of Brunkor's Spruit her husband was shot beside her, and she herself was wounded in the head, as well as her daughter, three years of age. Notwithstanding all this, she bravely throughout the fight visited tho wounded, and by tearing up her clothing, stopped the man's wounds. She has been recommended for tho Order of St. Catherine.