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Show GBASSHOPPEE GLACTEB. Oas of the small glaciers is Montana la of especial interest on account of tho fact that in tha maaa of ice thare are imbedded two strata of grasshoppers, each about foot thick. There are literally ton of erase-hoppers erase-hoppers in the ice and the question naturally arfaea aa to where they come from. The moat ebTioue explanation ia that centuriee ago two enormous awarma in court of migration migra-tion were caught in a snowatorm, chilled and buried in the anow, where they have remained till now in a perfect state of preser-ration. preser-ration. In the aeconnta of the early Western West-ern explorer a few inatsneee are related of meeting largo awarma of locusts on the mountain tope in the Rockies. It is a rery fortunate circumstance that the great extension ex-tension of agriculture in the "West has broken brok-en op the breeding ground of these insect. Country Life in America- |