Show wonderful strength of pleas I 1 leas lean are s d of 0 wonderful strength and have been known to per torin form some herculean feats douffet the great of the seventeenth century tells of 0 a light fingered mechanic who made it a miniature golden chariot with movable and a har ness of golden chains with vi tie lie hitched I 1 a alt to the tiny vehicle tills this weight of got goli I 1 chains chaing and char tot lot the account q titi la ia po the die it 1 it dragged romi forill fiet fi et on oft a ni irble uble li ap not the least ta fa zhenli hell 1 had done his hill ninsi bl bi wing lulng I 1 tells of a lond in n watchman watchmaker watch maKr r v ho sn an ivory anat couth h ot of four chelik rued fitted will lit coar coachman hman etc i to which a flen ank 0 harnessed harne shed to the great amun ment mentoe of all who saw naw ita ti wonder onder ful aul performances I 1 rhe che saine man after wards ward made a carriage with A ith six horses coachman four persons persona inside two to too foo men behind and a pos ellon in ito ro t 0 one of the horses all of ii a i drawn by a bingle flea I 1 burelli I mm lions a trained flea which dragged a 01 il ver cannon 44 times its is weight the rhe cannon was wag mounted on wheels abut but the only harness harnes the flea hall had on was a tina aln gold chain fastened arcoui d his hl neck with a fine silk thread this thin cannon was a real piece of ordinance according to the closing sentence of the old ac count which says that the little insect exhibited no fear whatever when the canon was charged with gunpowder and dir discharged charged 11 rene denels it not at all clear in his account of the wonderful feats feat of strength he once saw exhibited by a trio of trained fleas owned by a I 1 lindoo fakir about all we can learn from his amount account of the exhibition Is that he saw the three fleas dragging an omnibus and a pair of them drawing a chariot while the third one brought up the rear with a tiny mounted cannon of brass modern are not at all slow low in taking interesting experiments which are calculated to illustrate the wonderful vond erful characteristics of the insect family some borne late experiments along this line prove that a flea can carry a weight times greater than that of his own boda I 1 lie he can move over a space of 04 feet while a man Is getting ready to lift lit his foot or about st 81 4 feet w while hile a man makes one step at that rite a man of I 1 so 0 o in order to be able to compare dav favorably faor ably with the flea in point of both strength and motion should be able to take a common loc e under his hl arm and stride across the country from st louis to niagara ralls falls and re turn in less leas than an hour and a half and that too without depositing his burdens on the ground for a moments rest |