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Show Wires, Beasts and Bird. "A strango thing Is tho effect of electrical energy on birds and wild bet ts, says n telegraph lineman. "W wdpeckers uro continually tapping tel graph poles. In tho country you wtl find everywhere poles lionoy-coi lionoy-coi ibed by the sturdy bills of wood-pec wood-pec leers. Tho birds mlstuko tho hum-mil hum-mil g sound Inside the poles for tho hu! imlng of Insects, and It Is to got at theso supposed Insects that thoy ma ;o their perforations. Bears, on tbd other hand, think tho humming cot los from beo , nnd they overturn the stones at tho pole's baso in their one eavor to get at the honey. Wolves rre afraid of the sound. A wolf won't go near a tolegraph polo ttndor nny clr umstances.' - Philadelphia Union. |