MUSIC OF THE TELEGRAPH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 75, 24 April 1909, Page 3

MUSIC OF THE TELEGRAPH.

Kvcrvoni' lias pui Ins i ; ar to aU • ] „ripli-i'.ol<. to !'«»' ttu ' w,ros ~" m' m ' " i most pcopU 1 have aoiiiiifl that tlit was entivi'lv res,H.T.«ble for the «mn.l., Ci ;t Hi manv rasp*. '•«' „;, te is l.«.rrt ul.ove not the_ , movement ol the air |»'i 1 '. , j rmiit l-reuch investigator te.ls us that th'.' sound in this ease is due to te ov nansion and contraction of the wm* from variations of temiieratiit e. A, thi. wires are not perfectly unifoim. tlu.\ . ruli against the ins^i a «lWit noise, which is amplified I>} the post actinj? as a soniuling-board. Another investigator is sure that tinsounds are due to electric waves lmt he fail* to explain how ordinaiy telegraph wires should 1* able to serve a* wave-detectors and in what way the j electric waves are transformed into, sound waves. The other theory seems ( more probable. Some curious stories are told ot tills telegraph-wire mnsie. 1" Siberia the bears think that it U the buzzing of bees, , and would tear down the poles to look !for bonev if the constructors did not pile wreat stones about them to prevent this.° fn France, on the south side of the forest qf Fontainebleau, the teletrranh pounds are regarded us presaging, rain. This is because the south wind in this region brings rain, ami the forest shuts off the north wind. In some districts the noise i* popularly supposed to be due to the passage of messages, but it is .hardly necessary to say that there is no evidence to support this view,