Termites Destroy A Cable

The French Academy of Sciences was informeel last summer of the destructlon of an electric cable In Tonquin by the attacks of termltes. The cabl 'crossed a marshy tract and was encloeed in a tube of iead. The insect bored holes in the tube and completely destroyed the insulation of the cable It has been proposed to guard the cable against future attacks by encloslng it ia an envelope of cotton and jute impregnated wüh sulphate of copper, which,, it is belleved, would prove a fatal poi. í SPA to 1he Inserís.