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Show Puny Creatures That ! Have Held Up Trains A train was traveling on the More-los More-los railway of Mexico when the driver driv-er suddenly saw a red light ahead. I and pulled up in a hurry. F.efore i he could find out what the trouble ! was. another train came up behind I and ran into his. killing three pas-j pas-j ' senders. The red light was just an ordinary signal lantern, on which had settled a swarm of cochineal Insects. In-sects. The light, shining through their tiny bodies, caused the signal to appear a vivid crimson. Lions have held up railway traffic In East Africa, and elephants have done the same in Burma, but you can hardly imagine a hedgehog as capable of such an act. Yet near Sandbach. in Cheshire, a hedgehog held up all traffic for near! an hour. The unfortunate little boast crept between be-tween the points and the side rail, and was trapiHM when 'be points wore moved, thus prever.'ing them from closing properly. Still more anumng was the exploit ex-ploit of a beetle, which. t'V crawling into the signaling apparatus at llounslow, upset the contact and caused all signals to be sot at danger. dan-ger. It was a quarter of an hour before the source of the trouble was discovered. London Answers. |
