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A LUCKY BABY.
The story of a baby a.-i'eep in a cradle on the
roof of a church, baby and cradle having been
placed there without hands, looks like a piece
of extravagant, fiction, but there is an old
church in London that baa such a story con
nected with it, and, moreover, the story is be
lieved to be Hue. The, church is the Church i
of All Hallows-, Barking. It happened that in the
last month of the reign of Charles I. a certnin
ship chandler was foolish enough to bury him
self over a bairel i f gunpowder, with a lighted I
candle in his hand. He paid the price of his ;
fully. A spark fell into the gunpowder, and
the place was blown up. The trouble was that
ihe man who did it.;- u:i-~chi;-f was nut the only
one to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked, and j
the number of people who were killed was not
known. In one hou-.c among the fifty a mother
had put her baby into its cradle to sleep before
the explosion occurred. What became of the
mother, no one evei knew, but what, became of
the baby tvas very widely known. The next
morning there w found upon the leads of the
church a young child in a cr.idlc, baby and
uradlc being entirely uninjured by the explo
sion that had lifted bulb to such a giddy height.
It «as never learned who the child was, but
she was adopted by a gentleman of the parish,
and grew to womanhood. She must surely all
hur life have had a peculiar interest in that
church.
THE TNVA.smn o? ENGLAND.-The "Echo
dp ram" points '.ml that: it would be possible
to transport by mil the submarine vessels of
vho Goubot typo, and also torpedo boats 40
jimtres long, in this way the French flotilla
of submarine vessels and torpedo boats in thi:
?.! e'.lilerrancan c.oiild bo conveyed to and froi i
I la- Atlantic, notwithstanding the prt'senco of
a Uriti.-h squadron at Gibraltar. Thu "Fcho
tic Paris" tiroes the construction of a hun
dred snbmaiin'1 vessels, wihch would be suf
ficient, it considers, to keep the (.'liannel
tpc:i. am? t-i permit of the landing of (tops
nr. the Kn^iidi coast. The "Figaro" favors
a fclioiiu- for the oii.'ti uct'on of ;V tunnel to
..?in and Africa, and passing beneath
I !il"Miltai. and a.-ks I Hut. F'rauee shall male
.vjiri M utations on the subject i:> Aloiocco
d'!|.lcinatic "haimels. "if a tumie!
vcrc Hi,id". hel ween f-pain and AIor-H-co," the
journal :ulds, " it avouIiI lend to the build
( inj,' of a railway from Morocco to the Soudan
India,''
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