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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT In calm weather a. carrier pigeon can fly at the rate of 1,200 yards a minute; "with help of a moderate wind it will attain a speed of 1,540 yards, and before a strong wind 2.000 yards. . The strongest animals exist entirely on vegetable food. It is the ferocity of the lion rather than his strength that makes him formidable. The animals with most speed and endurance the horse, the reindeer, the antelope and others are also vegetarian. Robert Edwards of Belvidere, 111., landed the record pike bf the season at Delavan Lake a short time ago. Hid fish weighed twenty-one pounds and put up a stiff fight. Mr. Edwards was unable to land the monster until he had fiied two shots into it. Robert J. Caldwell of New York, it is said, is about to establish near Sarauac Lake in the Adiron-dacks the greatest :ganie preserve in the world. Several thousand acrepioE cut-over forest land is being fenced, in whicIT will be established great herds Of elk and deer. J. J. Duffy, mayor of Pass-a-Grille, Fla., recently caught a tarpon weighing 1554 pounds at Edgemont. The fish was six" feet nine inches in length and required forty minutes to land. It is the mayors sixth tanion this season. Mayor Duffy is looking forward to becoming the president of t lie St. Petersburg Tarpon Club, which office goes to the angler landing the heaviest tarpon on rod and reel during the St. Petersburg season.
