Show A Carrier Piscon Fate Tlie pathetic adventures of a carrier car-rier pigeon lately employed by the empress to bear a Utter I to her daughter the Archduchess Marie Valerie may b noted by writers of fiction in quest of new incidents The bird was one of those whU are tine for service at the cieual c Polo and when the empress recently recent-ly sailed from lola to Corfu the took this pigeon on board her yacht having arranged to let i fly with a letter for her daughter at a certain dUtancu l from the coast It LlnC Crm to ct 1 w supposed that the pigeon would return turn t lola and orders were given to forward the contents of the letter which I carried immediately by telegraph to tie young archduchess archduch-ess Unfortunately n feasant with a gun saw the bird and ehot IL He gn did not notice the letter which was no doubt bUwn on with tho shot and so while he bore home the empress winged messenger for Hipper Hip-per the letter I remained on the ground I was accidentally found a few days afterward and now royal newspapers are proposing that t prevent a recurrence of such ml I baf pigeons should no more b shot at all Ithus I wonder that nobody no-body ha suggested that carrier pigeons on state servIce should b put Into a showy uniform like those pt which the Austrian civil I whllh tl crl servants ser-vants are short going t aitoubh their fellow subjects Exchange |