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Show Wonders of Insect World The champion aeronaut Is the king grasshopper, which has the ability to Jump 100 times Its length, and can sail for 1,000 miles before the wind. : The erSclret is a powerful singer. Its shrill note sometimes being heard a mile away. The males alone are musical, mu-sical, and the females listen to their melodious wooings with ears which are on their forelegs. Being so musical, It would hardly be expected that they would be. such fighters among them- .selves as they are, or cannibals, 'eating members of their own species when there' Is not enough other food at hand. Our Dumb Animals'. " i |