Mr. Blanchard has had several disputes lately with persons who, having dined at the Killingly Commercial Inn, questioned that Eusapia was the oldest chicken in the world.
Of late years Eusapia has been given to fits of depression, and the admittance of eggs as parcel-post mail left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown for days.
A thousand chicks have been hatched by Eusapia in her long and useful life. She has always shown a great interest in them, has personally supervised their early education, and has invariably responded, even in late years, to their slightest cluck.
Laborers Kill Two-hundred-pound Shark.
A shark, measuring seven and a half feet long and weighing about two hundred pounds, was killed in Weir Creek, an inlet of Long Island Sound, by David McGowan, a sewer inspector; A. L. Hartman and several Italian laborers, all armed with crowbars. The fight lasted more than a half an hour.
Child Plays With Rattler.
Having a monster rattlesnake as a temporary playmate without being struck by the deadly fangs of the reptile and killed was the unusual experience of the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hunt, of Scenic, S. D., Mr. Hunt being the depot agent of the Milwaukee Railway Company.
The mother discovered the little girl playing with the rattlesnake in the yard around the Hunt home. The snake appeared to like the companionship of the little girl and made no effort to coil and strike. The mother managed to drag the child from within reach of the snake without arousing the anger of the reptile. The little girl strongly objected to being separated from her strange playmate. After the girl had been removed to a place of safety, the reptile was killed.
A Municipal Bat Roost.
The only municipal bat roost in the world was recently erected at San Antonio, Texas, and is expected to have an important part in the city fight against malaria and other diseases. The bat has been discovered by Doctor C. A. Campbell, of San Antonio, to be one of the greatest enemies of the mosquito, which is largely responsible for the spread of malarial and similar germs. For this reason San Antonio is not only protecting the bat by law, but has entered into the proposition of its cultivation.