arriving at the cabin about 11 A. M., my companion arriving about the same time. After a hurried meal we went out to look for injured cattle and to make a count. We found two dead ones near the pound, which had evidently lost their lives by running against trees. It was several days before we were able to locate all the stragglers. MISCELLANY HOMING PIGEON. Sleep little pigeon and fold your wings, Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes. Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging, Swinging the nest where her little one lies. In through the window a moonbeam comes, Little gold moonbeam with misty wings, All silently creeping it asks is he sleeping, Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings? But sleep little pigeon and fold your wings, Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes. Am I not singing? See I am swinging, Swinging the nest where my darling lies. --Eugene Field. One day a carrier pigeon tapped at the window of Mrs. Nansen's home at Christiania. Instantly the window was opened, and the wife of the great Arctic explorer in another moment covered the little messenger with kisses and caresses. The carrier pigeon had been away from the cottage thirty long months, but had not forgotten the way home. It brought a note from Nansen, stating that all was going well with his expedition in the polar regions. Nansen had fastened a message to the bird and turned it loose. The frail courier darted out into the Arctic air, flew like an arrow over perhaps a thousand miles of frozen waste, and then over another thousand miles of ocean and plain and forest, to enter the window of its waiting mistress and deliver the message which she had been awaiting so anxiously. We boast of human sagacity and endurance, but this loving carrier pigeon, after an absence of thirty months, accomplished a feat so wonderful that we can only give ourselves up to wonder and admiration. Utilization of the homing instinct of the domesticated varieties of the Blue Rock pigeon, the _columba livia_, by employing the birds as messengers for physicians living at some distance from their patients, is comparatively new and is the latest evidence of the value of these birds. A few doctors have made the experiment, and it only remains to prove the facility with which the pigeons can be employed in order to determine whether they are likely to come into general use for this purpose. The importance of establishing pigeon service for busy, overworked country doctors is strongly urged in favor of the plan, and it is agreed that there is no other such efficient or speedy means of carrying messages.