Some Nutmeg Albinos

Hartford special: Some curious albinos have been reported lately in the Nutmeg state. At Wallingford a small boy had noted for several days an oddlooking bird, as white as milk, skimming about the shady streets in company with a flock of swaüows. Now the lad, who is an expert svone thrower, wanted that beautiful white bird, both because it was an oddity and because it was difficult to wing with a pebble. The other night he skilfully dropped the scudding bird with a missile. The snowy little fellow proved to be a genuine chimney swallow, perfect In every way, and the purest albino specimen ever taken in the state, perhaps. In North Stonington a farmer killed an English sparrow that was entirely and uniformly white, except that lts bilí and slender legs and toes were of a clear, transparent pink. Norris E. Hamiltoa of Danbury has albino cucumbers. Last spring he bought some seed from a Philadelphia house and planted it in four hills. The seed eprouted very quickly and the vines it produced were unusually thrifty, vigorous, and healthy looking. Presently they were thickly set with tender cucumber8, and Mr. HamïïTon was surprised to find that each one was aa white as milk. They are good, though, of good size, as crisp and well flavored as the best fruit of the kind in the world. When the cucumbers are flrst set they are cream colored, but the oolor changes in a few days to a chalky hue, and when they are fit for the table they are as white, nearly, as snow. Thy are at no time green in color.