Costly Material For A Nest

A $10 bil!, which had mysteriously disappeared, was recovered by Assistant Coin Teller Phil Turpln of the subtreasury in a peculiar manner, says the Cinciunati Enquirer. He has a beautiful larm out on Cliff creek, near the Little Miami river. In that seciion birda fairly abound. One evening about the middla of May Mr. Turpin was getting ready to attend a soiree at his next neighbor's in Newtown, about two miles distant. The weather, it wlll be remembered, at that time was unusually warm, and he left the Windows of his room open. Mr. Turpin had taken his nioney, among which was a $10 bilí, and laid it on a center table, intending to put it in a pocket of his other trousers. The room is at the corner of the house, and has Windows on both sides. He stationed himselt at one of the Windows and commenced to 3have. The birds were singing outside and flying about the house and through the open Windows, joyful, no doubt, at the advent of spring, while othcrs were busy in treea building nests. It was loxury to shave amid such surroundings, and when Mr. Turpin finished he looked sleeker than ever. After washing he preparec1. "■ don his Sunday-góto-meeting clothes. After he arranged liis necktie to g'ive the best effect he went to the center table and began picking up his money, but was not a little surprised to lind a $10 bilí missing. He thought that the wind mi;ht have blown it on the floor and he began ooking there for it. After a long time pent in vain, he gave up the search here. He went out into the yard and began hunting in among the flowers and grass for it, thinking that it might have been blown through the open window, but he had to go to that soiree minus a $10 note. Day before yesterday the severe wind storm blew a robin's nest out of a tree near the front porch. Xlr. Turpin picked the nest up and was .ibout to cast it away when he noticeil what appeared to be a piece of paper of peculiar color. He examined it and found it to be currency of some denomination, but it was not until he had carefully torn the nest apart that he discovered it to be a $10 btll. It was ipparently the one he had lost a couple if weeks ago, a bird having flown into the room and snatched up the money. The bill was in pretty bad conditon and ie redeemed it at the treasury yesteri'.ay.