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Show Carrier Pigeon Remembers Its Home. I havo known of pigeons Impoited from Dolglum and kept prisoners for years which, when llberatod, struck out for home, only to be drowned In tbo Atlantic or picked up by tumo ship at tea. Thla provet that no distance dis-tance appalls tbom. During tho Franco-Pruttltn war tho French caught a homing pigeon which wat bolng tont to transmit Information Informa-tion out of tho besieged city of Paris. The bird wat made a prisoner of war and kept In confinement for ten years. When given Its liberty It at onco to-turned to-turned to Its old homo, ahowlng that ten yean wat not sufficient to drive from Its mind tbo memory of home. Country Life In America. |