A Calf's Costly Meal

Treasurer Morgan recently received a little wooden bos trom Texas containing a wad of what appeared to be fragmenta of United States bilis. Later in the day a letter from a gentleman of a small town noar Galvcsion arrived at the treasury department, which explained the contenta of the box, says the Brooklyn Eagle. The wad of green paper Is all that is left of $210 owned by the man which he rescued from the siomach of a yearling calf. It seems that the Texan recently sold a herd oE cattle, for which he receivcd $470 in Wils, as follows: One $100, one $50 and slxteen $20 bilis. He placed the money toi aa ordinary memorandum pocketbook, but the bilis were in such a posiUoe that the ends stuck beyond the edge of the book. He carelessly threw hls coat on the ground in e. cow lot, and a yearling coming along saw the green bilis and proceeded to devour them. The animal took in the entire bunch at one mouthful and was dis covered in the act of chewing the $470. The Txan, with the asslstance of liis brother, succeeded In recovering from. the mouth of the calf thirteen of the $20 Wils in a comparatively unlnjured. oondition. Thls money was afterwards passed off in payment for some cattle. The calf was shortly killed and from ita stomaöh was taken a mass oí chewed büls, stained and discolored. The fragmenta were boxed up and, sent to the rede-mption división of the. ti-easury department. Their ownera prepared a swora statement of the disappeiirance of hls money and forwarded it to Treasurer Morgan. The latter had the case examined and found tho facts to be as stated. Accordingly $210 in crlsp new bank notes was sent ta the cattle dealer to replace the money masticated by hls calf.