Connecticut western news., 1889-09-04
ABOUT THE FUNNY HEN.
ONE SOLEMN EDDY RAISES
 BIG FLOCK OF SNAKES.
Another Fights skunk.--An Accom-
 modating Hen.


 Recently little English lad named Sorby, who lives in Fetterman, took basket and went to the neighborhood of wallace Run for berries. On the road home, while crossing a field, he found a number of round, white balls about as large as walnuts. These he put in his basket and carried home. As soon as his father saw them he pronounced them turtle eggs, and as they had at that time hen that was anxious to sit, and, ill fact, had been sitting around on brickbats, Jumps of coal and other things of like nature, he concluded he would try an experi ment just for curiosity. So the sup posed turtle eggs were placed under the hen carefully, and she was left alone in her glory.
 About week after that, one bright morning, the family were startled by the greatest commotion in the chicken yard. Upon running to learn the cause, what was their borrow to see the place literally alive with black snakes, that were darting in and out beneath the old sitting hen, and wig gling around at great rate. The sup posed turtle eggs were those of black snake, and the hen had matched them out. The snakes were on an average about six inches long, and as lively as crickets. They would protrude their ugly heads from beneath the old hens wings and dart their little red tongues out at any one who would approach them.
 The Sorby family looked on in as- tonishment until one of the snakes wrapped itself round it's foster mothers neck and began to choke her to death. Then they procured sticks and went to work killing off the horrid brood. After killing twenty-eight the remain der-about half dozen that had taken refuge under the old hen-were al- lowed to live and it is said that she takes as much care of them as if they were little chicks. Wherever she goes they follow and seem to know her chuck. She scratches diligently for them all day, but no one has yet seen them eat. At night they crawl under her wings and sleep soundly. It is a queer family.-New Brighton Pa. ) News.
 SITTING HEN AND SKUNK.
 A correspondent of the Phillips Monograph tells of recent encounter which took place between skunk and hen. The contest was brief, but the hen came out into the yard, at its close, in an expeditions manner that was very noticeable. Both her eyes were closed; she tried to scream fire and murder, but she could not get a gasp of breath with which to scream She stood on one foot and scratched her head with the other, while hel countenance showed the most surprise ever seen on hens face. Next she bolted for the road and lay down tc rest herself in the dust, and lastly ral into some alders, where she remained q over night. This hen has never ut tered single "cluck" or been to hel nest since the event came off; but any one can readily tell when she is around Her desire to raise family has passed away.
 AN ACCOMMODATING EDDY. Mrs. J. B. c. Varnedo of Vienns was in her kitchen cooking dinner $ few days ago, when one of her oll hens came into the room where she was and after making few monkey motions, such as would convince an, one that she was crazy, the old hel laid an egg that was fully as large as { goose egg. Mrs. Varnedo decided tha as she was frying eggs for dinner sht could cook this one. Upon breaking the egg common white and yellow run out into the pan and there wa. still another egg there. This was broken and found to be just like any other egg. After these two eggs ha6 been placed in the pan Mrs. Varnedo could see no difference between then and the others that she was cooking Macon Telegraph.
 CURIOUS HEN PRODUCT.
 One of the brighest Georgia weekly papers on our exchange list reports { genuine curiosity ill the way of hel this week. The egg is sent to the edi ! tor by MT. J. c. Lifsey, residing a Lifsey store. The latest production of the hen is of an egg exactly like { mans head, except that the eyes art missing. The nose, mouth, face out lines, chin and even ears are shown and one or two strokes with lea( pencil gives it an appearance remarka ply like sculptor's production of Z human face.-Barnesville Gazette.
 MUST HAVE BEEN A KENTUCKY HEN.
 MT. Jackson Lariscy brought to tn Sylvania Telephone small egg, abou one inch in length and half an inch il diameter, somewhat of bottle shape being rounded off at one end and hay ing small end running out like bot | @1o o1, o@