Show The French army is making a great specially of raising and training hornIng horn-ing pigeons Each border fortress has pigeonhouses for the adjacent fortresses for-tresses as well as for Paris or for some intermediate elation en route to Paris Each line of flight Is about Iwo hundred miles In that way Paris is connected with the fortresses on the northern border For the fortresses on the northeastern border Langres is the inlermedlalc station Ten Jnesot flight run to Paris five to Langres and the stations are arranged so as to keep Paris In communication with all Im pbrlanl places for at least six months They use Ihem too In ihe field In the reconnaissance work of the cavalry The officers pulrols pushed out well lo the front carry pigeons along for messenger messen-ger service thus avoiding the weakening weaken-ing of the patrol by sending back cavalry cav-alry messengers to make the reports Then the pigeon Is swifter and more direct than the cavalryman Each brigade bri-gade has thirty pigeons and the patrol I carries six Another application is for naval communication with ports and I coasl forlificallons The engineers are charged with the care of the pigeons in lime of peace The training begins when the pigeons are about four I months old and their flight progressively progres-sively increases In the first year from thirteen to two hundred miles In the following years they are Increased lo I three hundred milefj |