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Show Pigeon's Hard Journey. Wings bnttered and tall feathers partly gone, too plainly telling tho story of captivity from which It had escaped, a pigeon which was one of tho contestants In tho -100-mllo race from Memphis to Louisville reached Its loft in tho yard of tho homo ot Charles WIrth last Friday, nearly two weeks late. Tho bird flow Into Its loft as If glad to get back home, but It showed that It had not had a pleasant Journey from Memphis. It Is supposed that tho pigeon was trapped by some ono when It was blown out of Its course by the storm tho birds are known to havo encountered. encoun-tered. It Is easily supposed that tho bird, after being held In captivity for several days, was released, tho capturers thinking tho bird would stay. Louisville Courier-Journal. |