Aniline dye manufacturers in this country are making a tremendous, and, they believe, an encouraging effort to supply the want of dyes, so greatly needed since the cessation of German exportation of that product. Some idea of the way in which the domestic industry has been called upon to meet the demand of the textile mills was given by one of the largest American concerns in the dye business, who said that his company has daily to reject orders for some thirty to eighty thousand pounds of dyes because of their inability to manufacture them fast enough. As an evidence of the satisfactory manner in which the American manufacturers have rallied to meet the situation, he asserted that his company was manufacturing four times as much dyestuffs this year as in any year previous. Although it has been less than a year since the dyestuff and chemical industries were thrown into confusion by the war, a readjustment has been partly accomplished, which has enabled mill operators to go ahead with the manufacture of textiles. From the way the American output has increased it would be safe to say that inside of the next eighteen months manufacturers here will be able to supply some $10,000,000 worth annually of dyestuffs to a home market which could use $30,000,000 worth. Now that the American output is expanding, our manufacturers feel confident that the trade lost by Germany will not be regained. This Aged Hen is a Real Coop Marvel. “Eusapia Palladino,” the oldest hen in the town of Killingly, Conn., and perhaps in the entire world, is to have a birthday party on the occasion of her twenty-seventh birthday, which will come in a few days. All the old hens in Killingly are looking forward to the event, and it is probable that a few young chickens will be asked, just to give the party a metropolitan flavor. Eusapia, though of Spanish origin, lays her eggs in English and began the work when but five months old. Her first egg, which her owner, Mr. James Blanchard still has, was laid in November, 1888, and since then she has laid an average of 144 a year. She has just laid another egg as this story is being written, and only the greatest haste can prevent her laying another before it is completed. She just lays around all day, as might be expected at her great age. Unlike the Madagascar Bingle Hen, which lays square eggs with a monogram, Eusapia lays but one egg at a time. Eusapia, it will be readily reckoned, was hatched from a black Spanish egg ten years before the Spanish-American War, when shells burst less frequently. She has seen a very active life, and greatly deplores the dissipation, irregular hours, and loss of sleep incident to the poultry shows which have become popular of late years. She does not smoke, has never on any occasion partaken of alcoholic liquors, and can now read without glasses if she cared to.