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...find a parallel for this cruelty, and at the same time the origin of our name "stool pigeon," in The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania, a book compiled some years ago by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, at present U. S. minister to Bulgaria...
...Stool Pigeon...
...thin, weary bird fluttered into the pigeon cote at Fort Monmouth, N. J. last week. The evening before it had been released with another bird from S. S. Leviathan, 100 mi. at sea. It had flown for nine hours to make the first long-distance pigeon flight over water. Its trainer, Thomas Ross, U. S. Army pigeon expert (TIME, Aug. 16), was so proud when he heard of its successful return that he christened it DO-X. The other pigeon was missing. DO-X lost six and one-half ounces on its journey-one-third of its normal weight. Pigeon...
Street names can be changed.-ED. Andree's Pigeon...
...generation is a long time to remember but I well recall going up in the air when the papers told of the shooting of Andree's carrier pigeon. The little messenger had flown 150 mi. toward home and came to rest on the mast of a ship whose captain shot him. At -the time I wrote a vitriolic article for a local paper condemning the brutality of men in general and of that captain in particular. As that ship proceeded on its way it met another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with...