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Show Millions of Crickets. For the past three years about the middle of August Dallas was visited by a flight of small hardshell beetles, which at uight would strew themselves over the sidewalks and occasionally crawl down the backs of possersby. This year there has been a change in the programme, pro-gramme, and instead of beetles there has come a visitation of crickets of the singing variety, which has been immortalized immor-talized by the poet who wrote "The Cricket on the Hearth." A single cricket hidden away behind a large firebrick occasionally touches a tender chord, but when the horny looking things cluster by millions, frying in the electric lights and crawling over the sidewalks, the idea of the poetio gives way to that of the hideous. The creatures seemed to dessand from the clouds, as if attracted by the electrio lights while migrating in the upper regions of the Atmosphere, The dip of their descent was toward the south, indicating that they came from the north. Dallas News. |