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Show ANIMALS USE THE WIRES Good Trapeze for Monkeys Near Victoria Vic-toria Wyanzn. Tho world 19 now oo much covered with telegraph tele-graph and telophono wires that civilized human hu-man being Fcarcely notlco them. They run along most of tho highways In England, and tho oft-announced coming of an underground oyotem seems to havo no Influonco In tho direction di-rection of reducing tho number. Thero 13 good evidence, however. Bays tho London Globe, for supposing tho animal world ha by no means grown ho nccustomed to tho wires which swing abovo their heads. Cows, for exaniplo, havo been soon standing at tho corner of fields listening In awestruck fashion to tho Aeolian strains which Gmllo their enrs na a high wind blowa ocros3 tho Iron and copper Btranda. Blrdn llko tho topmost wlro for a imtcIi. It offers them apparently a finer vlow than tho boughs of trees, which aro understood generally as being nature's dovlci for tho purpose CurlouHly enough a bird will not slnb frcm tho wire; whether It Is silenced by tho Aeolian rivalry, or whether, on the other "land. It haa come lo seo tho utilitarianism utilitarian-ism of tho Btructuro nnd to fool that song Is Incongruous, cannot bo explained with our present Knowledge. Bees hato tho wires and thoro aro wcll-au-thontlcatcd cases of a swarm of bees altering their flight to avoid adjacency to the? lines. Rooks show tho greatest partiality for them, a partiality which they hold with tho sparrows, and In eomo of tho older lines, whero tho wlrea aro closor togcthor 'than la now- though to bo wife, nests arc built, and the lnoulntlon of tho lines damaged accordingly. It has been calculated- by . ono of thoso statistical persons who had tlmo for tho entorprlso that thero Is a bird swinging ono tho lines each mile of tho dlRtnnce, which when summed up gives us a total of eomo COO birds amusing thcmsolvcs In this fashion between London and Edinburgh. In distant countries thero nro amusing ln-ptancen ln-ptancen of the u;o to which wild animals put tho telegraph wires. A roport has Juat reached England giving tho details of the Ideas of monkay3 in rJjpcct to telegraphy. Thosa animals ani-mals aro convinced apparently that tho wires aro put up merely for tho purposo of giving thorn a long trapozo for their performance Near Victoria Nyunza there la a lino of throo wires, along which they may bo Hoen hundreds of monkeys enjoying themselves to their hearts' contont. Tho authorities havo tried, by shooting them In considerable numbors, to remove thl3 disposition, dis-position, hut tho monkeys still run tho risk, and travelers report that thoy often eoo thom In dozens swinging by tho tails and chuckling In tholr own chattering fashion with delight This dooa not servo to lmprovo tho telegraphic service, for In tho depths of tho forost tho monkeys' trlclca often twist tho wires, and currents pass trom ono to anothor. giving a iomcwhat confusing result at tho ends. . Oddly enough, It Is stated by oxporta that .ho earlier -Ideas of tho monkeys as to tho pleasures of stealing tho wlro havo passed away. Nowadays It rarely happens that wlro Is stolen. Tho Idea has sproad that oomo kind persons, recognizing tho neoda of tho monkey tribe, havo put tho wires up in such 3tcuro way merely that tho monkeys may havo perfect per-fect ewlnglng, and tho monkoys aro perfectly loyal to tho Idea and rofuso to steal tho wlro apparently for this reason. Tho curiosity of tho clraffo la another disturbing dis-turbing clement Cows here at home staro up nt tho lines when music Is being emitted; horses rub thcmsolvcs against tho polos, but theso two do but Httlo damage. Tho giraffe, however, -has tho odvantago of being ablo to stratch his lone neck and to reach tho wlro3 themaolves. Ho has a wonderful rogard for tho potterj" Insulator. Ho reaches up and Bolzes theso not very succulent daintlos nnd pulls thom down, drawing tho Btrands with them. Tho arms of wood on which tho insulators insu-lators are placed also alluro tho giraffe, and when ho gets fairly nettled at tho boso of a polo ho finds rich omusomont for a couple of days dragging down tho arms and pecking at tho Insulators. Tho Influence which this has upon tho transmission of messages can bo imagined. im-agined. It la as Injurious 03 tho Influenco of tho hippopotamus, which creeps slyly up to tho poles, looks cautiously around to fco If any cno Is watching his porformanco, and thon, by a long pull and a otrong pull, drags over polo, wires, Insulators and all. Tho comfort la that occasionally tho hippopotamus gets entangled en-tangled In his own devices. Ho Is not a very dexterous animal, oven nt tho beat of tlmon; but when he's wrapped round -with some twon-ty twon-ty feet of wire and In eomo casea with twenty feet of threo wires ho finds progression somewhat some-what roturded In tlmo, no doubt, ho will lforn that It Is as well to leuvo tho wires untouched, but It socnis ao If It will tnko somo years yet beforo tho lesson has gono home. |