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Show BEAST AND WIRE. New Diversions of the Animal Kingdom King-dom in East Africa. Tho animal kingdom In British East Africa leioks upon the 100 miles of telegraph tele-graph wire strung through that region as an innovation to be utilized. The wires arousv curiosity and stimulate -x 1 1 e 1 1 1 1 1 i i a 1 1 i n . number of genera and no end of species are trying to find the adapt. itlon of the t, legiaph to their e iJU- . ciiiui su iiie louillie OI the telegraph business is more or less e-rowdi-d with Incidents mentioned In tho latest oflicial report. This speaks of monkeys u incorrigible. Many of them have been r.hot ar.d thousands frightened, but they cannot get over the Idea that the wires are merely a new facility for their athletic performances In midair. They have ceased to pay much attention to the locomotive, and even the shrieks of the whistle are not permitted to Interfere much with the-fun the-fun of swinging on the wire. Three wires are strung on the same line ,,f poles for 584 miles between the Indian ocean and Victoria Nyanza. giving an opportunity for more complicated performances. per-formances. The Klkuyu forest Is mentioned men-tioned as a place where monkeys in their evolutions, sometimes succeed In twisting the wires together. The gentle giraffe Is also n source of annoyance He sometimes applies enough muscular energy to the bracket on which tho wire Is fastened to twist t around, stretching the wire and causing caus-ing It to foul with other wires The hippopotamus Is also a nuisance because be-cause he rubs up against the poles and sometimes knocks them over. These creatures, however, do not steal the wire. Thievery was th great -evil with which tht telegraph builders build-ers had to contend, and the evil has only recently been suppressed When tho copper wire was stretched northeast north-east from Victoria Nyanza through the-Neoga the-Neoga country, the natives cut out considerable con-siderable lengths of It; and at one time about forty miles of wire were carried away and never recoveted. Passlns caravans found nlao that they could help themselves along the way by cutting cut-ting the wire and using it In the barter bar-ter trade. The temptation was great and not always resisted, for wire would buy anything the natives had to soil A great deal of energy was expended in stamping out wire stealing and It now '''n.s to be a thing ..f ti,,- past wty""'?e, mcis' are receiving and sending telegrams In British v Africa and ygandS Wires connect th eacoast With Albert Nyanza. where Bmtn Pasha was so long cut off from the world by the Mahdlsts. Telephone '""V " nst.mtly .,e,ng nt "be. K,0n,A,0mbai,ft' on th,i coast, and Nairobi Nai-robi 32S miles inland, an 1 ,h, , , business last year amounted to 4S I7B9 messages. New York Sun. |