TWO IN A SINK HOLE. A KENTUCKY PRINTER NARRATES A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Willi Pollowlnf the Call ef HI raltfcfnl Dot He M With a Mishap tm a Dark olt With a rierce Wild Heart Th E.rape aod Reeoffiltlon. Pretty ninch everybody In the crowd bad told story of tbe Ron or dog or flihpulo eacpt printer who looked about as much lilt a hnnter or fisher loan m he did like an angel. "Iff your torn now, Muggins," laid the reporter. "I never hunted anything but board ing hoaxes over in Brooklyn," he snld, With a wan and dodging kind of air, ai if people threw thing! at him whenever be tried to tell a itory. "fiat before yon came hero 1t whnt we wnnt to know abont," pat in ev eral, "and you've either got to toll a tory or pay for the drinks every time anybody else tell one." He moved abont nneuiily and punned hit choir bnck from the tabic, drawing It close up again immediately and filial ly renting hi hand clasped on the board in front of him. "Well, gent," be enid with the wan and dodging look still in hii eye, "let me think a minute. Before I came here I lived in Chicago, whore I wai hunted instead of hunting. Before that I wai in New Orleani, where I only hnnted a Job. Before that I wa in St. Paul, where I was hunting a warm place all the time. Before that I lived in Boston, where it was too frigid to hnnt, and be fore that, quite a long time before that, I lived in old Kentucky, and, gents, I did hunt there. Nothing but a coon, mebbc, or a fox or a possum or as little as a squirrel or only a dove in the dusty road, but it was finer than anything on earth. "I was only a boy, and perhaps that had something todowitb it, but I didn't know any different then, like I do now, and it was just the finest on earth and no mistake." And bis wan face lighted up as if he were looking through the open gates of paradise. "I recolleot I bad a dog that was considerable of a hunting dog, but he was an nnrcstless kind of n oass, and when be treed any thing he wonld do a lot of barking at first, but if somebody didn't come mighty quick he would give it up and go moseying along after the neit thing in sight One night I was out with him after coons, and about 9 o'clock I heard him bark like he was over in a clump of woods abont a half mile away. I knew I was going to have to get to him pretty quick if I found bim there at all, and I started across a field toward the woods ns fast as I could go. It was stubble field with sink holes like yon find all over Kentucky in the limestone parts, and the place was dark, though the moon was just beginning to show above the woods. I was thinking more about what the dog had than anything else, and as I wont banging through tbe field, all at once I seemed to drop off of the earth and fall into a cellar, and then I knew I had tumbled into a sink bole. They are never very deep or dangerous, and I wasn't afraid of being fatally hurt, but it took the sand out of me right quick, and I went down through the weeds and stuff, not knowing just what bad happened. Of course I hadn't much time to think, and when I hit bottom I bad etill less, for instead of lighting on the ground or stones or thicket, I lit on something alive. It was a wild animal of some kind, I didn't know what, and I was scared till my hair began to feel funny on my head. "When I wont down, I went hard, and I kind of knocked the wind out of the varmint at first, hut in a second it began to yowl and snap and sr arl and to twist under me and try to get out and to raise the dickens generally. In the meantime I was yelling end squawking and trying to scare the blamed thing, because I thought it was a wildcat, and I knew a boy of my size didn't have any show with a wildcat if the varmint ever took a notion to fight, and I knew pretty well that a wildcat wns about as sure to take a notion to fight as any thing on earth. I don't know exactly what I did in that hole or how I did it, but I remember it seemed about a month of Sundays that I was all ousted up in there with some kind of a wild animal, ;and finally tbe thing got from under me ;nd scooted as fast as it could for the etop of tbe sink hole. I followed after it ;Sts quick as I could, for I became braver .when I saw it run, and wben Z got up .-on the level tbe moon had come out, and I could sea the varmint fairly skin ning it out for the tall timber. I jelled at it with all my might, tbongh I didn't ma .after it very fast, and began to call my slog. On the second call the varmint topped, and I began to get ready to skin out myself, when I got a better look, and, by the great horn spoon, gents, it Was my dog. I called him then, and he wma back to me, and I oould see for myself chat he had holed something ( down there in the sink, and his barking had been smothered and sounded away off to me, and of course when I dropped in on him unexpectedly like that he didn't know anything about it, and nei . cher did I, sad there we was. Ia any event, gentlemen, " oonoluded the for mer Corncrnofcer, "that dog come trot ting back to me, and when we met face to face in tbe moonlight he sorter look ed at mo, and I sorter looked at him, and I don't know wbioh one of ns felt most like apologising. I do know, though, we both knocked off for that oc casion, and on the way borne we took torn abont sneaking along behind each ether, ne and the dog. "New York Sun. FarUlaa Pagan. Paris Is threatened with a renaissance - ef paganism. Several well known litte ' rateura, poets and artists have banded themselves into a society for the adora tion of heathen deities. This romantic fevlval has already caught the Parisian fancy, and converts are announced v- HEROI8M IN MINES. Instance Where Brave Mea Have Risked Their Uvea to Sava Other. Never was there a mining disaster of any magnitude without several in stances of individual gallantry in sav ing boys alone, says a writer in Chums. As a colliery manager said the other day, "There may be a score of oases of that kind after a single accident and nobody be any the wiser. " "A boy told me onoe," he proceeded, "that after an explosion one of the men Who was with bim brought him along a considerable distanoe in the working. At last they met the afterdamp. The , lad was so terrified, so anxious to get i out, that be wanted to rush through : and make bis way to the shaft If he had gone on, he certainly would have dropped, but the man would not lot bim. He stopped him by force, and j though the lad bit and fought like a I little demon he stuck to him and held I him near to the ground, so that they oould breathe. How do you think he calmed the boy at lastf Sang comio songs to him. Well, they had to keep where they were for about five hours, and then, when the air had got better, the man started off and brought the yonngster out safely, though onoe he was nearly suffocated by tbe afterdamp. Now, there's a oase that nobody would hare heard of probably If the lad hadn't happened to have told me about it " As an lnstsnoe of heroism in this di rection that is known, however, I re call a story I heard near tbe batik of the Hyde pit aftsrtbe explosion in 1869. Ton know that the slightest delay in flying for the shaft may mead death. In the neighborhood of Bolton some few years ago one man out of a party of colliers stopped behind for a minute or so to look for his son, a boy of 14, who was working olose by. The two met, but, alas, they perished there to gether and ware found olaapsd in each other's arms. And paternal devotion as thus manifested has oost many a brave fellow his life. Well, on the occasion referred to a man named Haalam brought from the workings, or mat as be was Marrying along to tbe pit month, a youth about i 16, and throughout tbe terrible journey he stuck to the lad with the most heroio determination. Twice the boy stumbled and fell, but the noble collier dragged him to bis feet and urged him to push on with all speed. Other mishaps befell them, yet both, I rejoloe to say, gained the surface alive and comparatively well ' I Something About Partridge. Among the habits of the partridge one is that when a covey Is roosting on the ground, with their tails buuobed to gether in a circle, tbe bunch is sur mounted by a line of watchful heads, like sentinels on duty. Another is that j they run the instant tbe ground is touohed after a "flush," tbe dogs often trailing them in rabbit hunting fashion. Their aeuse of smell is evidently very acute, for during the nesting season, if the eggs, wbinh number from 10 to 20, are disturbed in any way or a hand even Inserted in the nest, it will be immedi ately deserted and a new one built. A short time previous to the netting tbe males are often involved in desperate combats for the choice of mates, who stand by and quietly watoh the encoun ter, aoeming not to care which one be comes the victor. The incubation is performed entirely by the female, tbe malo, when not feeding, often being perched on some slight elevation, en couraging her by his mellow toned call of "bobwhite." Two and sometimes three broods of young are reared during a season, tbe nesting beginning as early as May 1. Later in the full the broods of young occasionally join forces, but whether from a want of oonipauy or for protection is not known. When feeding, the birds are some times scattered several yards apart, but at the first sign of danger an alarm Is given, and they immediately "bnuoh," with their beads placed olose together, as if in consultation. The first shot into a oovey will often cause them to break and fly in all directions, and if not dis turbed again for several minutes "scat ter calls" will be heard an every side. These are mado tooollootthe remaining birds, who again bunch. Many of the market gunners seem to have no qualms of conscience and very often kill with out hesitation an entire oovey, when al least one or two pairs of birds should be left for breeders. Baltimore Sun. Queetloa ef Adipose. A criminal lawyer of long experlenoe at the bar was heard to say the other day: "I have made juries in murder oases an especial study. There are a large number of men, largor than most peo ple suppose, who have samples about finding death as a punishment for a murderer. I need to make it my busi ness to study jurymen's faoes and see if I oould read by the lines whether or not they had temples abont tbe death sen tence. I gave this up, though, as being beyond my power of com prehension. Later continued study of the jury box led me to a dlsoovery. That was that in nine cases out of ten a jury composed mostly of tall, lean men would, when the evidence was sufficient, never bave the slightest hesitation about fixing ex treme sentenoe. On tbe other hand, a jury where short, fat men predominated in number would occupy twice as much time in finding its verdiot, and when brought in it would generally be a term of imprisonment for tie murderer. " Louisville Commercial. Tot garaeho. The following cure may be tried in oases of severe earache when ordinary remedies have failed t Get a small quan tity of dried arnioa flowers and put them into two small bags. Put half a pint of whisky into a small sauoepan on the stove, and wben it is heated dip one of the bags into it and apply to the ear of tbe sufferer. As soon as one bag begins to oool and the steam stops com ing from it change it for tbe other bas remtalae SaVrtde. Statistical tables yield ourlous in formation to the oareful student. For Instance, they show that over one-third of the women who kill themselves are not yet SO yoars of age. They show that women take poison, where men shoot themselves, and they show that the poor, alok and the infirm are not by any kind of reckoning in the majority. A physician who makes a study of at tempted suicide said this: "(Jet a girl past SB, and she'll go through poverty, siokness and dosertion and misery enough to kill ten men. The more people suffer the more they cling to life. I've seen it in hospitals. It is not the patients with the inourable diseases or the hopeless cripples who beg to die, but the young, strong, vital woman, who bates pain and doesn't want to suffer It, even for the chance of getting well. It is a strange thing, this getting of a girl past 86, bnt not uncommon. Any physician with a large family practice will tell yon of a doeen oases in his own circle of knowledge. Sometimes it it called pyromonia, some times kleptomania, sometimes catalep sy, sometimes hystoria, somotimes foign Ing and sometimes tantrums it's all the same thing nothing else to da" Another physician told of a girl who committed suicide and who left a note stating that her reason was that she was tired of doing the same things over and over every day. The monotony of life bad become unbearable) to her. Philadelphia Times. Dropping Ball Through the Karth. "O. H. " of East St Louis asks the following curious question, "If it were possible to bore a hole a foot or more in diameter entirely through the earth, and to fien start a 100 pound ball to falling through this 8,000 miles of bole, at what point would it stop?" In an swer to this we will say that weight, In the sense to which our correspondent alludes, is the measnre of attraction of gravitation, or, in other words, it is the measure of force with whioh a body is attracted to the earth. This attractive force decreases both ways from the earth's surface. Therefore If a ball ,hould be started on the tour outlined in your query its weight would decrease to a certain extent with every yard of its flight (or fall), until finally, upon reaohing the center of the earth it would have no weight whatever. This curious state of affairs would be brought about by the gradual lessening by tbe force of attraction, or gravitation, until the center of the globe would have been reached, at whioh point the ball would be held in snspension, as though fixed by numerous magnetio points. In other words, at the center of the earth the phenomenon of weight Is entirely want ing. St Louis Bepublio. ' Making Allowance. "Confound the boy," heexolaimed as he opened one of the letters the post man bad brought and spilled half his ooffee. "What is the matter, dear? Look out! Ton will spoil the tablecloth," remark ed the wife of his bosom. "Tablecloth be hanged. It's that boy Tom. " "What has he been doing? I am sure he's getting along finely. He writes me that he is on the eleven." "That's all very well, but here I bave a bill from bis tailor, and I only paid one last week." "But look at the nioe set he is in. " "Yes, but why the mischief doesn't he economize? Doesn't the young rascal know the value of money?" "But ' Tom is so young, dear. Ton ought to make allowances for him. " "Allowauoesl For heaven's sakel I have been making allowances enough for bim, and I'll stop his allowance this month," he cried as tie left tbe break fast room to go to the offloe. Chloago Times-Herald. No, IS la Rome. An observing tourist wbo visits Rome and walks through the streets is doubt less surprised that there are very few bouses bearing the ominous number 18, nearly all the houses that should bear those figures being marked 13b or 14a. Nor la the superstition re garding the fateful 18 absent from sol eutiflo and phlegmatio Germany, for the other day a merchant in Berlin ap plied to the magistrate of tbe distriot to have tbe number of his shop obanged from No. 18 to No. 18b. Tbe magis trate, however, refused to grant the pe tition. In Frankfort, on tbe other hand, the owners of buildings bearing No. 18 are allowed to change the figures upon a simple application to the proper au thorities. New York Tribune. Seed Fa Paragraph. A well known Dublin journalist tells tbe following aneodotei One night as a messenger from the office of an evening paper was passing along the quays on the banks of the Liffey he beard tbe sound of some on Struggling in tbe water. "Are yon drowning?" he shouted. "I am," replied a feeble voice from the water. "What a pity I" said the lad consol ingly. "You are just too lata forth last edition tonight, but oheer up you'll have a nioe little paragraph all to your self in the morning." London Tit Bits. Da Manrler Portrait. George Du Maurier's last portrait of himself pictured a man faintly resem bling tbe author of "Trilby" and pro vided with the wings of an angel and the tail and hoofs of something else. Over it he wrote: "Some seem to think he's got wings like an angel; some, that he's got a oloven foot and a forked tail. He is quite an ordinary little man, 1 aware you." In heraldry nine different varieties of tbe crown are recognized as insignia of rank tbe orientul, the triumphal or imperial, the diadem, tbe obsidional crown, the olvio, the crown vallery, the mural crown, the naval and the crown h. w. Mcdonald, FIRE, LITE and ACCIDENT insurance. I have a large lino of Companies and am prepared to handle large or small lines of Insuranco. Prompt Attention given to any business Intrusted to my care. Office In Nolan Block, Reynolds- vlllo, Pa. Illti- IPitffc L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse-stioer and General Blacksmith. tlnrne-KhocInu done In the nentest manner and by the latest. Improved methods. Over l'X different, klwln of hIhm! made for correc tion of faulty action and diseased feet. Only the best make nf fihoes nnd mills used. Ko palrlnjt of all kinds carefully and promptly done. 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