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Show GIVE MEANING TO WHISTLE Canary Island Natives Said to Hold Conversations With Each Other by Musical Sounds. Australia, It Is said, can boast of whistling spiders, whistling snakes and whistling moths. But has anybody any-body ever heard of "whittling" language? lan-guage? It Is recorded that Id the Canary Islands the natives are expert whistlers whis-tlers and hold conversations with each other through this medium. Travelers Travel-ers who have been to these islands tell how they have learned the strange language, and also of how long and complicated conversations have been held by whistling with a neighbor a mile away. The New Guinea whistling snake I very dangerous and many deaths have been reported. It rushes to an intruder in-truder with a whistling noise and the bite causes almost Instantaneous death. The United States has "whistling" caves and "squeaking"" sands-. A whistling well In Kansas has been known to give notice of coming storms, the rushing wind over It causing caus-ing a loud shrill warning nf approaching approach-ing squalls. Singing sands are well known in the United States, but In south Colorado "squeaking" ones are found. The cause remains a mystery, but the sand only "squeaks" in dry weather. Plants, caves and trees are recorded among the "whistlers" of the earth and It is Interesting to find that in Nubia nnd the Sudan there prows a sptxne of acacia which the natives call the "whistling" tree. Its "whist'e" is not that of an ordinary blowing of the wind through its branches, but It arises from the air playing on some boles of a hladderlike formation, being be-ing the work of insects. |