It is not only amusing, but gratifying, to learn that
one of those adventurers who run great risks for no useful end has succeeded in making his rashness simply ridiculous. Mr. George Pinkert, who made a second and fruitless attempt to cross the Channel on Monday on a tricycle made for water- travelling, and who was very near perishing in the attempt, though the sea was very smooth, was picked up by a fishing- smack, after travelling nine miles, in a state of great exhaustion from sea-siolmess, after five hours and a half of ineffectual effort. No one ever did give anything like ade- quate sympathy to the sea-sick, and Mr. Pinkert's tragi- comedy will probably prevent others from following his foolish example, more from fear of an equally ludicrous denouement than from fear of the tragic fate which Mr. Pinkert only just escaped. It is impossible to be excited to admiration or emulation by the fate of a man who managed to escape death, but did not escape the ignominious fate of a ghastly attack of retching.
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