“Reading on the Slides.

Showing how misfortunes never come singly, and setting forth the inadvisability of reading your newspaper in the busy streets. The unfortunate hero of this story was reading his 'Times' on his way to business, and so came in contact with one end of a plank which a careless workman was carrying. This made a 'strike' in the timber trade. Vociferating loudly after the stupid fellow, he runs backwards way into a sweep's broom. Then he trips over a dog, and falls at the foot of a ladder, and the descending workman steps full upon him. He rises, gazes ruefully on his demolished silk hat, and is run into by a mortar cart and deposited on the pavement, whence the stern arm of the law drags him in sorry plight. A very amusing set.”