Show SWIFTER THAN THE PIGEON swallow easily Out distances companions in flight between com and antwerp A citizen of antwerp has put to a test the celerity and homing instinct of the swallow as compared with pigeons a london correspondent of the new york sun says ile he caught a swallow lit in its nest under tinder ills his roof at antwerp made a red mark on its feathers and sent the bird with a consignment sign ment of canier pigeons by train to Compi in northern I 1 ganve a distance of miles the birds were released there simultaneously at the next morning the swallow without the slightest hesitation mado for the north and dis feared like a flash the pigeons circled laboriously around before deciding which direction they should take the swallow reached its nest in antwerp in 67 minutes while the pigeons tool took four loins and seven minutes to cover the distance in other words the messenger of spring flew at the rate of nearly 13 32 miles an hour while the speed of the pigeons only slightly exceeded 9 35 51 J miles an hour |