Singular Subsidence Of Earth

The owner of a piece of lnd in ene of tho suburbs oí Llego was the otlior day rneasurmg out a part of it, on whieh ho intended to build n house. All at once lie feit tho ground moving under his fect. On looking down, ho found that ho was fiinking, and thnt the earfch on ■which he stood was giving way. So ño hurried away - not a moment too soon uk it happcned, for, on turuing round, to his horror he discovercd that the vory spot on whioh ho had been ■working hul disappoarod, a surf ace of abouteight or nine square yards haviug fallen in, leaviug n fearlul ohasm of 300 yards deop. This eingulcj accident, whioh might liavo cost hitn his life, is due to the practice in former times of olosing the mouths of abaudoned coal pi stwilh planks, and covemig tho plnnks with a layerof earth, which in process of time beotfmè part of the field, and in this cne had for a number of years been under cultivation, tho very eiistenoe of the coal pit haring Heen foot.ten for génerations. 8omo yoars ago, iu the name nèighbothooa, .1 farmer, while engaged in plüwing, all at onco missed a large waluut trco which only a few minutos bcjfore liad boon bef oro his eyes. Th e tree had oompltítely disnppeared, having fallen into one of the abandoncd ehafts, the covering of which, composed of planks of wood with earth over them, had through ago bocome decayod, and had suddonly collapsed. -