Show speed of carrier pi pigeons gecias the ordinary speed anade aiby aaby homing pigeons does nol lot exceed thirty wile miles s an hour slid sn nl it a ILIJ I known pennsylvania railroad allicia oll acial I 1 instances are arc recorded however of their doubling 0 anti anil even trip tripling lin that rate of speed pit pigeons cons were used is as bearers of flis pate lles as ion long ngo ago as the beime of jerusalem on 0 d were pressed into the service during the saige of paris fly by tire gerin a army the art of Irain Mig them Is ii supposed to he be carried to tile the stat greatest perfection in turkey young you birds birdi are arc tak taken ell halt half a mile away aitay and then set loose the disla is ii increased from day to day until they are arc able to cover one thousand thou sund miles mile s or return from the ilia moitt inot remote parts of the kingdom the belgians take their birth birds to the south of 0 france to Units marseilles cilles or bayonne onne and they aliey make tile distance from aiom Ants antwerp crp brussels or ghent five hundred miles lit ili ten tell hours in ili this country high 0 rates of sp speed ced have been attained but I 1 cannot give you yon the exact time lime made we ive used to send our birds bird out on oil tile die pennsylvania railroad to pittsburg awl and as far west as columbus the they returned but the results ivere not satisfactory the mountains mounta ius which illicit have to bo be crossed ire are infested with will hawks and heir tops are soniC sometimes enveloped cm enN eloped in clouds of mist couf confuse use the bird anti and lend them thein out of their wa way y the best results ire are now flow b being diug obtained by tal taking ting tile the blaids south they follow tile c coast right up tip it nith i ill mountains on one hand and the like ocean on the other as guides and they make very 0 good time slights plights ali D lits are arc oft often en mado made from C charlotte harlot tc NL C to new I 1 ew york a dist distance of miles and I 1 have heard of several front fron points in ili south carolina miles from new york the object being to lo get them to wake make one thousand miles philadelphia times |