Show grasshoppers in a glacier one of the small glaciers in mon tana is of special interest on account of the fact that in the mass ot ice there are imbedded two strata of grasshoppers each about a foot thick bays country life in america there are literally tons of grasshoppers in the ice and the question naturally arises as to where they came from the most obvious explanation Is that centuries ago two enormous swarms in course of migration were caught in a snowstorm chilled and burled in the snow where they have remained lema ined till now in a perfect state of preservation in the accounts of the early western explorers a few in stances are related of meeting largo swarms ot locusts on the mountain tops of the it Is a ver fortunate circumstance that the great extension of agriculture in the west has broken up the breed ing grounds of these insects |