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Show GIVE MEANING TO WHISTLE j Canary Island Natives Said to Hold 1 Conversations With Each Other by Musical Sounds. j Australia, it is said, can boast of whistling spiders, whistling snakes i and whistling moths. But has any- ; body ever heard of "whistling" lan- 1 guage? It is recorded that In the Canary islands the natives are expert whls- ; tiers and hold conversations With each other through this medium. Travel- j ers who have been to these Islands j tell" how they have learned the strange j language, and also of how long and I complicated conversations have been ! held by whistling with a neighbor a ; mile away. The New Guinea whistling snake is j very dangerous and many deaths have i been reported. It rushes to an Intruder In-truder with a whistling noise and the i bite causes almost instantaneous j death. i The United States has "whistling" I caves and "squeaking"" sands'. A j whistling well in Kansas has been j known to give notice of coming storms, the rushing wind over it cans- j ing a loud shrill warning of approaching approach-ing squalls. Singing sands are well I known in the United States, but in j south Colorado "s-queaking" ones are found. The cause remains a mystery, but the sand only "squeaks" in dry I weather. Plants, caves arid trees are recorded j among the "whistlers" of the earth and it is interesting to find that in ,j Nubia and the Sudan there grows a j specie of acacia which the natives call the "whistling" tree. Its- "whistle" is ; not that of an ordinary blowing of the i wind through its branches, but it arises from the air playing on some holes of a bladderlike formation, being be-ing the work of insects. j |