Bird Rings Burglar Alarm.
A mischievous bird known as a flicker, belonging to the woodpecker family, has taken a fancy to sounding a burglar alarm over the First National Bank at Wrightsville, Pa. The first time or two the bird indulged in this prank it[Pg 58] caused a stir in the neighborhood. It is thought that in the first place an insect on the surface of the gong was pecked by the bird, and in this way the bird became acquainted with the musical qualities of the bell. The beating of the bird’s bill on the bell produces a sound exactly like that produced by the electric tapper of the gong.