David Kinney, of Middle Village, who has suffered greatly from chicken thieves during the past few years, has just had a burglar-proof chicken coop built on his premises. The walls of the new coop are filled in with Portland cement, the sheet-iron doors are secured with two old-fashioned German locks, and there is a secret alarm wire running from the coop to his house. Besides all this, Mr. Kinney has secreted one or two bear traps near the coop and has provided himself with three revolvers and two doubled-barreled shotguns, and he says there are men enough around his premises to use them in case of need.