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Show Carrier Pigeons In Anolent Timet. Pigeons, as commonplace as they appear, ap-pear, aro characters of antiquity. Dove is the Anglo-Saxon name; pigeon, pig-eon, tho Norman name. During the fifth Egyptian dynasty, 3,000 years beforo Christ, it was the fashion to domcstlcato pigeons and to train them as carriers and messengers. The promptness with which Caesar was informed of tho rebellion in Gaul, and thereby enablod to cross tho Alps beforo those uprising could possess the entire provlnco, was duo to tho use of carrier pigeons. In tho Crusades, these birds wero skillful and faithful messengers. mes-sengers. Tho price of a handsome pair of pigeons In ancient Rome was not a trifle, for Alius, a Roman knight, once sold a pair of pigeons for 40 donnrll about $75. At that time, too, they were by far the swiftest conveyers of nows, and wero much tn demand at the celebration cele-bration of the Olympic game. |