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Show Whistling and Weeping Trees. (Chicago Journal.) Among the curiosities of tree life is the sofar, or whistling tree of Nubia. When the winds blow over this tree It gives out flutelike sounds, playing away to the wilderness for hours at a time strange, weird melodies. It is the spirit of the dead singing among the branches, the natives say, but the scientific white man says that the sounds are due to a myriad of small holes which an insect Dores in the spines of the branches. The weeping tree of the Canary islands isl-ands is another arboreal freak. This tree in the driest weather will rain down showers from Its leaves, and the natives gather up the water from the pool formed at the foot of the trunk and And it pure and fresh. The tree exudes the water from innumerable pores at the ends of the leavfi 5 : |