We regret to learn that on Christmas Eve Nubar Pasha,
the Egyptian Premier, met with what was a rather severe acci- dent for a man of his age and physical constitution. While walking in his farm at Simubra "a cow which was playing with a calf [i.e., doing what the Americans call "cavorting "] frightened him, and he ran away under the impression that the animal intended to attack him." While running he slipped and broke his right leg above the ankle. According to one of the telegrams the patient's temperature has risen, but Madame Nubar, who is nursing her husband, is said not to be alarmed. We trust that the Pasha will make a rapid re- covery, but when a man is Nuba.r's age, and not in robust health, an accident so severe as the fracture of a bone cannot help being serious. The inimical influence exercised by cows on grand old statesmen is a subject which deserves spo.cial study. Mr. Gladstone, it will be remembered, though he held his ground more suo, was overthrown by the Ha.warden heifer. It would seem indeed to be equally useless to fly or to face a cow bent on injuring a Premier. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the other victim of the political cow, may fairly feel that fate has marked him down for the place of First Lord of the Treasury.
