Foes Of The Telegraph

Ir you kick or pound on a telegraph pole or place juur cnr uguiner nlle OH a willdv day, what will the noise remiml jdu oír A hive of beesí Preciecly. So it does the bears in Xorway. Bearsare passiouately fond of honey, and when in one of the wind districts Bruin hears the hummiiig of the wires he follows the sound to the post where it is loudest, and begins to tearaway the stones heaped round Üie poles in rocky soil to steady them, in order to fiet at the hive which he imajrincs to be there. In his dimppolntmeat and disgust he usually lcavcs MTBge inurks of liis claws In the wood. Nor is he the only vidim of the wires. In tlie electric exliibition at Paris they show the top ui' a tliiik pine telegraph pole througb which a woodpecker has drilled a bote -i vrral Incbei In diameter. The blrd bad appaiently perched on the pole and taken humniing of the wires tor the buzzing of ;i nest of Inarcti tn tlie woud, nuil had Kt bimtelf iiiant'iilly - or biidfnlly --tu dlg tbein out. t Wulves will nut stay in Norway where a telegntph line has been built li was formcrly the cuatotn tu piotcct Eintfi by plauting poles round thein slrung with cords lomethlnglike rmbbi tañare, and gradually the wolvet csme to respect the precaations so that a line stretched acron HM neck of a peniusula would protect the whole district. The wolves take the telegraph pules tur ¦ MW and imprOTed snare, and promptly leave the country where the line is built. On our treeU'ss plains the búrlalo liails the telcgiaph pule M an ingenioii contrivance for bil own benefit. I.ike all eattle he delights in Bcratching hlmself, and he through the perfonnauoe so energetically that he knoclu down the post. An carly buildci of telegraph unes undertouk to protcit tin1 posU by insertiu-f brad-awls into the wood, but the thick-skinned buffalo found the bri(l-;iwl an.lmproveinent, as affording hiui a mw sensation, and Kratched qowb inore pol than ever. In Sumatra the elephants are systematicallv oppoMd tu (tlêgrapfa lines, and at lea-i twenty times ¦ _car make rsiids on them. la May, 1876, the elephants tore down the poles for u distante of several furlonjis, and hid the wires and insnlatur in the cañe jungles, and for three nlghts in luccfulnn they repcateil the performani -e as regularly as the repairen rebullí the line dnring tiie day. The moukeyt and apes are iibuut as formid.ililc eneniics, as they Use the wire for twlng aiul trapees, and eary off the glass InauUton ai valuable prize-, then when the repairer gOM to corree the mischief, he may be pouneed opon by a tiger or be driven up the poll tiy a mail buffalo. In Japan the special enemies ol the teleirapli are the tplden, which grow to an ImmenM sie and avail themselves of tue mint as excellent IVaineworks of their ebs. su tliick are the cords the Japanese iplden spin that often, epecially when tliev aic euveied with dew, they serve to connect the wires with each other or the eronnd, mhI io to stop thvin from wurk[ng. In the sea the w res are not any safer, as a small worm lias developed itself sinee cables eame into fashion which bures its way thrmixli iron wire and rutt:i percha. Iets Io tlie water and so destroys n line wurth mllliom of dollars. When n giwrt storm êOOMI on in the enter ol the ucean, and the cable breaks while it is being laid, or threatem to break, no one is alarmed. They lasten the cable tu a buoy and come back fterward and piek it up; or if it is at the lM)ttom of the sea, they drop a dredge, with u mile or so of rope, and fish out the precioqi tbred, as large as one of your flngers, almost as easily as you could llsh a penny from the bottom of a tub of water with the tongs. Bilt the littlo worm 8 more formidable tlian rlophant oi