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ACCIDENTS, together with concerts, balls, births, marriages, adventures, and discoveries, are to the world at large neither more nor less than a newspaper item-a food for daily gossip which stands rather higher in interest than natural death, and rather lower than wilful murder. The column of accidents will scarcely be scanned with as much attention as the column of exchange; and though the habitual newspaper-reader may feel somewhat ill-used if nothing more exciting has occurred than the drowning of a couple of vil lage-boys out bathing, his interest in the accident column is not likely to take any shape but this. How wonderfully, how selfishly callous we are towards the misfortunes of all except that handful of fellow-creatures with whose features, and voices, and manners, neckties and coats, we happen to be familiar! How little we are touched by the destruction of un VOL. CXXXVI.-NO. DCCCXXVII. known men! Oh strange want of imagination! amazing poverty of fancy! Who loses a night's sleep because some peasant lad has been killed by lightning? Whose арpetite suffers because of the list of charred corpses that were dragged from the ruins of a theatre? Whose spirit is dejected because a workman has fallen from his scaffolding and been picked up dead? Workmen falling from scaffoldings is a thing which happens every day, and, according to the average number of houses being built, must continue to happen. If we take the trouble to say, "Poor man!" this certainly is the greatest length to which our good-nature goes. We never stop to follow up the thought, nor picture to ourselves the dead man brought home, his orphans' faces, and his widow's tears. "How fortunate that I did not pass down that street this afternoon!" we perhaps re S |