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Show Strength of Fly. An Englishman has made many experiments ex-periments with various insects, such as caterpillars, fleas, butterflies and flies, which show bow extraordinarily strong these insects are. A bluebottle fly weighing 1-28 of an ounce was hitched by a thread to a tiny wagon and drew a total weight of a little over six ounces, or practic- ally 170 times its own weight A caterpillar harnessed in a similar manner man-ner pulled 25 times its own weight. A strong man with a like equip, ment of large size can at most mov but ten times his own weight |