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Show An Electric Tree. There Is a peculiar treo In the forests for-ests of central India which has most curious characteristics. The leaves of the tree are of a highly sensitive na-tuie, na-tuie, and so full of electricity that whoever touches ono of them receives an electric shock. It has a very singular sin-gular effect upon a magnetic needle, and will Influence It at a distance of oven sevonty feet. Tho electrical strength of tho tree varies according to tho time of day, It being strongest at midday and weakest at midnight Iu wot weather Its power disappears altogether. Birds never approach tho tree, nor have Insects ever been seen upon It. |