Sunbury American And Shamokin Journal

Jumps.-About 12 o'clock last night, a few minutes before the Brooklyn ferry boat started from the New York side of the river, a young couple, recently married, came on board, and the young lady and her husband walked to the further bow of the boat, and the former took her station so close to the edge of it, that her husband repeatedly warned her of her dangerous position, and the slightest movement of the boat would throw her into the water.

The young lady, however, persisted in remaining there, gazing "at the smooth, smooth sea," until at last she lost her balance, and fell head over heels into the river.

So gently, however, did she descend into the arms of Father Neptune, that her head remained above water, and from fright or presence of mind, she lay quietly on her back, without uttering the slightest sound, or making the smallest motion with her hands, and floated on as gently, and seemingly as buoyant, as a log of wood or piece of cork.

As some time had to elapse before the boat's time for starting, all of the officers were not on board, and several minutes passed before the boat could be unchained, and proceed in search of the floating lady--which it at last did, and with a very gentle movement soon came up with her, and a ladder being let down from the boat, a man descended on it and caught the lady's dress with a boat hook, while another man, who had also descended, caught hold of her by the leg--an impropriety which the young lady, even under such circumstances, resented, by shrieking so loud, and making such desperate plunges, that her despairing husband had the consolation to know that she was still "alive and kicking."

She was immediately lifted on board, in a state of extreme fright and exhaustion, and was carried over to Brooklyn, and went home in a cab.--Journal of Commerce.