Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Another New Thing for the Army. [ARTICLE]

Another New Thing for the Army.

Piytllinenta with cyclists and carxtarjtaHms for transmitting message* ar* DBixig made by the gymnastic society of Ho me in the interest of the ItaltMi army. The rider carries a smai: ;age attached to his machine, in which are (WVeral well-trained pigeons. Whea important observations have been taken and Jotted down they are placed in en- ■ elonpee and affixed to the birds, which art liberated. In every instance thus .'ar the birds have flown promptly and n a Otraight line back to headquarters jver distances of from ten to twenty miles. It is thought that this combination of bioycle and pigeon service can -4 venr profitably in military obervations, and tffir??aiian army offle■/ (reposes to continue the experiments