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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, and pulled up in a hurry. Before he could find out what the trouble was, nnother train came up behind ami ran into his, killing throo pns-sengers. pns-sengers. 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 t lie signal to appear a vivid crimson. Lions have held up railway trafllc ln East Africa, nnd elephants have done the same In Burma, but you can hardly imagine a hedgehog as capable of such an net. Yet near Sandhnch, in Cheshire, a hedgehog held up all trafllc for nearly an hour. The unfortunate lillle hensl crept be tween the points and the side rail, and was trapped when ihe points wore moved, thus preventing them from closing properly. Still more amazing was the exploit ex-ploit of a beetle, which, by crawlins; into the signaling apparatus at riounslow, upset the contact nnd caused all signals to be set nt danger. dan-ger. It was a quarter of an hour before the source of the trouble was discovered. London AnswerH. |