Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — OUR ODD CORNER. [ARTICLE]

OUR ODD CORNER.

It makes a cheap swell proud to be called a dude. Makes more money than he can spend—the man who coins eagles in the Mint You’d have to squeeze a man’s throat pretty hard to make cider out of his Adam’s apple. A mam who lives in a flat has discovered that “janitor” and “emperor" both end in “or" because both are the tides-of “ortocrate.” Another New Thing for the Army. Experiments with cyclists and car-rier-pigeons for transmitting messages are being made by the gymnastic society of Borne in the interest of the Italian army. The rider carries a small cage attached to his machine, in which are several well-trained pigeons. When Important observations have been taken and jotted down they are placed in envelopes and affixed to the birds, which are liberated. In every instance thus tar the birds have flown promptly and in a straight line back to headquarters over distances of from ten to twenty miles. It is thoughtrthat thia combination of bicycle and pigeon service can be very profitably used in military oblervations, and the Italian army office imposes to continue the experiments.