Show A NOVEL RACE THE london telegraph gives particulars of a race that was run recently between an express tra train I 1 n and a carrier pigeon the race took place between the continental mail express train and a carrier pigeon conveying an urgent document for the french police the ral carriages and engine of the express train were as might be ex peeked of the best possible construction for power and speed the pigeon pi geoia which was known as a belgian voyager was tossed through the railway carriage window by a french official cla I 1 as the train left the admiralty pier the wind being west and the atmosphere hazy the train had bad made more than a mile before the poor bird decided which direction to take it circled u up an in theair the air rising all the time in wider rings awe able the train which made no stop was speeding along at the rate of sixty miles an hour and the railway officials were ready to lay any odds on their train but tile the race was not to the strong for a telegram announced the arrival of the bird twenty minutes before the train was heard of |