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Show If Men's Muscles Were Like June Bug'. A gentleman residing on the west side noticed a very large June bug flying around his piazza and proceeded to capture cap-ture it. He placed the captive under a heavy glass tumbler which rested on a newspaper, expecting to examine the insect in-sect a little later in the evening when he had leisure. -.- On returning to the table where he had placed the bug, some half hour later, he found that it had moved the tumbler nearly a foot by placing its head against the side of the glass and pushing it along. In ordento be certain that the glass had been moved by the captive, he carefully marked its position on the newspaper with a pencil, and at the expiration of another quarter of an hour found it had been moved nearly five inches. As the tumbler weighed at least fifty times as much as the bug, the ease with which it was moved around on the paper was a Bource of considerable astonishment The June bug was less than an inch in length, and was restored to liberty in view of the exhibition it had given of its strength. : The story is vouched for by several witnesses, who were called in to see the insect as it was pushing the glass along. Rochester Union. |