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THE theatrical profession is becoming a fatal one in these later days. Some four weeks ago one of Buffalo Bill's company was stabbed in the abdomen in an indian fight on the stage at Cincinnati, and died soon afterwards. Four weeks ago John T. Meintyre was so badly wounded in the thigh by the discharge of a cannon on the stage of the old Bowery Theater, New York, that he died from the effects of it, and was buried last week. Last week the boy gymnast, Leo, was prematurely thrown from a trap at the Grand Central Theater, Philadelphia, and seriously injured. The boy's part consists in being shot up into the air to a suspended trapeze by the pneumatic process, and at the same time a lot of powder is exploded, giving the effect of his being shot from a mortar. The men stood reading with a piece of canvas, used as a safegaurd, and the boy stood in the mortar, when, by some unforseen accident, the signal was given too soon, and the boy was tossed several feet in the air, falling on the wooden mortar and breaking one of his legs above his knee.