Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — WONDERFUL NEST IS FOUND [ARTICLE]

WONDERFUL NEST IS FOUND

Abode.of Stork Built on Top of Cathedral of Colmar Weighs ThreeQuarters of a Ton. Berlin.—An Investigation of a stork’s nest built on the top of the Cathedral of Colmar in Upper Alsace, bi ought wonders to light. The nest was about thirty years old, measured six feet across, and was five feet in height. It weighed three-quarters of a ton. and was so solid that pickaxes had to be used tn destroying it. But it contents were more marvelous still. It was made of wood and clay; and its sides concealed among other things 17 stockings, five fur caps, the sleeve of a silk gown, three old shoes, a large piece of leather and four buttons that bad belonged to a railway porter's uniform. Two dozen large sacks were filled with the treasures that the industrious storks had hoarded for themselves.