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A RIVAL OF THE " STEAM HEN."-The great " steam hen," which was recently destroyed by fire at Wehawken, near New-York, was regarded as one of the wonders of this wonderful age Pos- sibly the Gothamites were not aware that for midsble rival to their new mode of incubation ex- isted hereabouts. MT. James Wallace, of this town. states that some time in the early part O: August last, he cooped up all his hens, in conse- quence of their depredations upon his garden and fields. About the 10th of September, some five weeks afterwards, he was surprised to find new ly-hatched chicken upon his barn floor; and hear ing the chirpings of others upon the mow, he commenced search. On the south side of the barn, at some distance below the top of the now, between the hay and the barn boards, he found a nest with several little peppers, some of which had evidently but just emerged from the shell- As it was known that no hen had been upon the premises for several weeks, the conclusion is un. avoidable, that incubation was produced by the warmth of the sun upon the side of the barn where the nest was located.