Show Animals and the Telegraph M Neilsen director of the Norwegian Nor-wegian telegraph lines has just published a curious note upon the impressions that are produced upon animals by the vibrations of telegraphic tele-graphic wires The posts in the neighborhood of the Norwegian pinewood even those which have been freshly impregnated with sulphate sul-phate of copper are frequently found to have been perforated by woodpeckers which it seems mistake mis-take the humming of the wires for the buzzing of insects The holes are generally made near the insulators insula-tors and a post bhown at the Paris Electrical xhibnoi had a hole clear through it i large v Hough to insert in-sert the whole arm i i ars imagine the humming to be tl at of beesand not finding any sign of a colony above paw at the heap of stones at the base of the poles andwhen hey can find nothing vent their sprte in a vigorous blow on the ground to kill the bees that persist in staying hid The scatterin of the heaps of stone around the posts which is not rare could not be explained I ill some one perceived the marks of the bears claws where these desperate despe-rate blows had I een given Wolves are belit ved to hav been frightened gay lt 1 the mis While a vote was pppdii e on a grant to a tele rrpluc i e rn ILer of the Stor hing emJ eUIlat while his constituents con-stituents tad no direct interest in the iliitj they would support I = n the grant because the wfres would drive away the wolves It is said thathowever hungry a wolf may be he will never go iato a spot that is I inclosed by ropes stretched on posts It is a remarkable fact that since the first telegraphic line was estab lished twenty years ago wolves have never appeared in its neighborhood neigh-borhood Popular Science Monthly |