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Show THE RAGE FOR R18K3. Long Record cf Lives Lost in Daring Exercises. A list made up by us at random ;rom newspaper acccunts, and without with-out any thought of completeness, of 'be number of persons who have lost their lives through their passion for risk, the love of hazard, during the past few months, makes a total of several sev-eral hundred. This includes some forty five persons who have lost their lives in automobiles, seventeen who have "missed" their footing in balloon exhibitions, nine who have been ushered ush-ered out of existence by means of (lie bicycle and its allied contrivances, two who have climbed steeples for the last time, three bridge jumpers, seventeen sev-enteen Alpir.e climbers, five long-distance swimmers, seven who have been blotted out of existence in efforts to break athletic records, and scores of others who have gone to a better, and it may be hoped, a safer land by various vari-ous other agencies or methods designed de-signed ostensibly to promote the joys of this present life. If to this list we should add the 300 other, mountain climbers who, it is said, have lost their lives in the Alps during the past (en years, the total sacrifice of human life to the rage for risk would indeed assume formidable proportions. Leslie's Les-lie's Weekly. |