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Show CRICKETS ARE ALL VIOLINISTS, Carry Their M js M Instruments Constantly Con-stantly v.i.h Them.-Violinist Them.-Violinist of the t v.ds a poet chrls-tended chrls-tended the grasshopper, whoso musical musi-cal apparatus demonstrates tho scientific scien-tific fitness of Its name. Both crickets crick-ets and grasshoppers use a rudimentary rudiment-ary violin. Tho crickets havo a fiddle, the abdomen being partially endowed endow-ed with small brldgollke edges or ridges, against which tho wings are rubbed in order to produco tho strident stri-dent chirp. All such insects aro tenors; ten-ors; deep hf-t voices are unknown, although it is vho male, not tho fo-malo, fo-malo, Insect that is tho musician. Some Insects, like tho locust, havo verltablo violin bones, covered with fine ridges and attached to tho wings by two buttonllko growths. Others havo cavities covered over with a fine membrane, which serves the purpose of a resonator; In almost all Insects of this type there Is a parchmentllko part of the abdomen which acts as a kind of sounding hoard. |
