Bored by Ants.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 2

Bored by Ants.

Tin: mo 4 (headed inject imader is thf Vr'hito nut. In Africa then* houses aio dome-slnped mounds often eighteen feeL hi^ii. The-.e insji>/'j erect pyramids 1,000 times higher than themselves The ants on theii ti f .i\el-> .so eoncal their approach that their presence is not .suspected until the dema^e i- done. They usually tunnel into any object which they attack, often 1 educing it to a mere r-hell. In this way they ha\e bcou know ti to ascend within the leg of a table, devour the contents of a box upon it, and descend tlnon^h a tunnel bored in another le;r, ail in one nijjli (-,. An officer, of the Enc?lirh a i% my, while calling upon some ladies in Ceylon, was .startled by a rumbling so-incl. The ladies staited with alfiright, and the next instant they stood with only the hky above them ; the roof had fallen in and lay all about, \otv\ ing them miraculously unharmed. The ants had made their way up tluough the beams, hollowing them out until a irieat pa>-t of the framework of the hou.se wis ready to full at the flifhte.st sltock.~ w yt. Nicholas."