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Show Are Small But Strong i Everyone In a r.eneral way knnwa ; of the aitlonlrhlng niuncular power ' employed by lno.la and of real loura de force which tht.- e::c-.ile either In the purault of prey or In -fending Ihemrelvoa aKulnat their J- Bilea. Al tho Rama lime one rarely baa a proclno Idea of the airenmb of theae Inaocta becauie thure are few atandarda of comparison, although Bulbing la timplor than lo make a correct cor-rect valuation of their atreniith. The wing atrength of Inaerta la known bvcauie o( lha work of foil I'lateau and De Lucy, who iho wed that thene little ereaiurei could not ralto a weight taiieh heavier than tbetnaclvra, un mutter what the aur-face aur-face of their wlnit. During the course of these experlnienta a very Intorost-lug Intorost-lug fact was dlseoverud natnoly, that Iho alto of Iho wing tlei-ioasos aa the weight ntnl hI.-o ut the animal In-creon-s. a 'luci which eiilnlnu the 1 iliiw. beiivy IMfht of tlm beetle ami tho awlil. Iii-M niiivenieiit of iho gnnt. The iiimi in entirely illfTerenl, how. ever, whctit the creature, moves on a aolld aurlaio vvheie aU fe-t may tue taln polnta of aupport. In thla caae we cau approtliuntely calculate the force eiun Ised. Take, for eiample, a fly by the w:iik, leaving the lega froe bo lhat the.- may m-lae and raise a match. If a in n wished to perform relatively equal lulior he would have to raise a beam 2 "a feet long by HH Inchea square. The earwig barneaaod to a aniall chariot ilmus without diffi culty matehea, whli li for a large per-choron per-choron hoi so w on .1 mean dragging 330 bcatua aa lnnu mill thick aa blrn-aelf, blrn-aelf, Tho man v. 'm leupa the 100 me-tare me-tare of tho Klffol t.iwer la merely repeating re-peating the action of the flea, which can leap 2011 tlmea lta own height, finally the Il.-rcul-a la obliged to rnlae eighty Inrno locomottvea to equal tho rotative trctii;th of an oyster, oys-ter, which lu i li -i vir tin valves oxer-clei oxer-clei a force oi iirteeti kllograma Thus It la a in. h irnr,' simple thing lo ealculnte t -,-ep;th of Insecta than to e iu.il It u . our iiunleru ath-letei ath-letei l.n.e jet n b toiul to travel li.Turo they e;ia .. tie'.o with aul- Itllll OcenpxtU'; v lituhlo puifltliina In Iho living w rV.' tiMIe (Iplnluu. |