Crinoline Catastrophes.
--Two young crinolined ladies were passing along a street in Newcastle the other day, when the dress of one of them caught a ladder on which was a painter busy at work, and pulled it away. Down came the painter and his pots; the ladder broke several windows in falling, and the pots fell upon the ladies, who were painted from top to toe. The unlucky artisan was not much injured — Another servant has been sacrificed to the crinoline mania. Jane Turner, aged 18, cook in a gentleman's establishment in the metropolis, although repeatedly warned by her employer, persisted in being a la mode, even in the kitchen, and her expanded dress coming in contact with the kitchen fire, ignited, and she was burned to death.--English Paper.
