Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-21
London Street Accidents.

The news OF a military engagement in which
1900 OF our troops had been wounded would
but the intelligence that, during the last year,
no less than 1861 persons have been Injured by
accidents in the London streets will be quietly
accepted as piece OF curious statistical infor-
nation. TO be run over by a cab or to be
knocked down by butchers cart affords no
title to the sympathy OF your fellOw-men. Such
casualties have become so completely a part Of
our daily life that they have lost any pictur-
esque element they might at one time have
possessed. When bicycles were first introduced
the novelty OF the danger did indeed serve for
While to give certain interest to street acct
dents. The world was wearied Of being 10
1ured by ordinary vehicles; but to be wounded
by bicycle was new experience, OF which
numbers OF persons fastened to take adyan-
ingenious machines were at first employee 1t
Is almost disappointing TO f1nd how small bag
the blcycle-riderS have made during the past
II months. They have only injured nine per-
sons all told; quite beggarly account con-
pared to what can be shown by the drivers OF
fight carts. The enterprlsng butcher boy, az
cording to the parliamentary paper, still de
fies all rivalry in this particular accomplish
ment. The cabman comes next In order OF
merit; but 1t Ia the driver OF the light cart that
has done the real execution, and his most sue
cessful hunting grounds have been the out!y-
ing suburbs OF London. The number of fatal
accidents amounts up to the respectable num-
Der OF l66. OF these the city claims only nine,
DeIWell, Hampstead, Paddington, and High
gate fellow in honorable COMPETITION. There
is no ooupt That In the city the driver Of the
nghL cart laDOrS under considerable diSadyaI-
tages. The thOroughfares are 80 crowded that
he has not the means of getting up the speed
necessary for successful adventure; and, apart
from this consideration, he suffers much from
the harassing interference OF policemen sta
toned at various point to regulate the traffic.
But In the suburbs he is more his own master
me roads are tolerably clear Of other vehicles.
and hence the unwary foot-passenger becomes
inspired with just sufficient confidence to make
him an easy victim to really spirited driver.
1.-THE Saturday Reu'e,o
MACAULAY ON AMERICAN NOTES. ut Is i'm.
possible for me TO review It, nor do / think thar
and will not cut it up. I cannot praise it,
though 1t contains few lively dialogues and
descriptions, for 1t seems to me to be, as a
Whole failure It Is written IKE the worst
easy and sprightly is vulgar and flippant, as In
the first two pages. What Is meant to be fine
is great deal too fine for me, as the descrip-
ton OF the Falls OF Niagara. reader who
wants an amusing account OF the United States
had better so to Mrs. Trollope, coarse and
mfallgnant as she is. reader who wants In
ana literature, had better 90 even to so poor p
creature as Buckingham. In Short pronounce
the book, In spite Of some CLEANS Of genius, az
once frivolous and dull. Therefore Will nor
praise 1t; neither will l attack it-first, because
have eaten salt with Dickens; second, because
he is good man and man Of real talent; third,
oVCaonO HC udtCo slavery DIS ueaTUllY as l do.
and fourth, because wish to see him enrolled
In our brue and yellow corps where he may do
excellent work as a skirmisher and s6arp.
shooter.-[Ffona a Letter to Maccey Napier.
FAT ACTRESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is
getting so tremendously stout that she will
soon have to give up playing youthful parts
altogether. am told that, owing to her size
she no longer wears any peticoatS, her dresses
being fitted over single undergarment OF fine
cambria. The dresses that she wears as Mad
anne de Prize" in Dumas comedy Of Mademoisclte
de Belle Isle. are unusually rich and elegant
The first Is OF pink satin, the front OF the skirs
being bordered with plating of the satin fully
half yard deep, second and much narrower
one being placed half way up the skirt. The
long pointed corsage is trimmed with lace ana
roses, and the full rounded train and pannier5
are ornamented with lace. The second dress is
Of white silk, brocaded with pale-colored roses
TIE front OF the dress Is in white satin, crossed
lattice-Wise, with garlandso OF pink roses; plumes
and pink roses In the powdered hair, ana
superb set OF diamonds, completed this COR
geous toilet. But alas. OF what avail are lace,
and roses or even diamonds, to an actress who,
at the age of twenty eight, weighs about tw,,
hundred pounds?-(Lucy Hooper's Last Parfs
Letter.