Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — Birds Shun This Tree. [ARTICLE]

Birds Shun This Tree.

A German authority has recently announced the discovery of a tree in the forests of Central India which has most curious characteristics. The leaves of the tree are of a highly sensitive nature, and so full of electricity that whoever touches one of them receives an electric shock. It has a very singular effect upon a magnetic needle, and will Influence It at a distance of even seventy feet The electrical strength of the tree varies according to the time of day. It being strongest at midday and weakest at midnight In wet weather its powers disappear altogether. Birds never approach the tree, nor have insects ever beat seen upon It