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Show Carrier Swallow. The popular name of "swifts" is likely to be more than ever appropriate if the following announcement is verified: "The training of swallows for military ' purposes is being proceeded with actively active-ly at Roubaix, under the observation of Capt. Degouy, who has been detached for this duty by the minister of war. The birds will be swifter than the carrier car-rier pigeon; at the same rime it will be more difficult for the enemy's bnlleta to hit them. All the swallows which are at present in training are young, and so far they have given fair proofs of their capability for carrier service. One, after having been taken to Paris, was set at liberty, and reached its nest at Roubaix in an hour and thirty minutes, the distance dis-tance being about 2-50 kilometer, or 155 miles, " Leisure Hour. The screen. At last that convenient and comfortable comfort-able article of furniture, the screen, is left to the cabinet makers. So great is the number of the monstrous creations of amateur hands that they have finally been relegated to obscure corners of lumber rooms where they will not offend the eye. In the place of these home made screens, or those like them, which dealers used to sell, have come the irresistible screens of today. And there are people with such an overweening regard for the light, airy, convenient thinga that they put them in their kitchens and halla as well as in all the other rooms. ew York Telegram. - i |