Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-06-03
GAY II
''nespise not the Bav of small Things
Fefsecute not the Dcd-siug--Hursuc not
the Flcs--Nan4u ish not lac SIx~tcr.
~ little nonsense now and then
Is %iriiSiIcsi by Ill" Misr~I niSn.

ctHtlc itdticF. 90 hot tGf Il mo-
ment think that anything was made
in vain. You can look around you
and see fleas. beetles, mosquitoes,
ants and many other living things
which seem to have no useful mission
in life, but when we think that Ma
ture had any time to fool away in ex-
periments we are sadly mistaken.
She knew what she was about when
she gave a bcd-bug four rows Of teeth
and q 2:4O gait, and she had her
eyes wide open when she made double
joints in the hind legs of a flea. The
insect we are about to notice in par
ticu'ar is one just about to make HIM
self numerous in this country, where
he is called the ~grasshopper. In
some localities where they have no
colonies, no disappointed politicians,
no dollar stores or street sprinklers,
he is termed a locust, but he is the
same bird under all names. These
insects date back to the time when
the first rail fence on earth was
built, and they were only two weeks
eating up the last silver of it. They
are like these chaps who want to Dor
row five dollars for 4 day Or two
scattered all over the world. They
knock their heads against the Pyra-
mids of Egypt, and go in swimming
Oh the coast Of California. They
make Il MONDAY lunch from the In
dams wigwam, and they eat supper
in the palaces Of kings.
Few great me- seem to have given
much attention to the study Of the
grasshoppcr, although there is lots of
him To study. He hasn't got rs many
legs rs he might have, but he is not
The grasslopper to sneak oil and
pout over that. You will see that
the number he has are unusually Ion.
and stoutly iojnted, and SO spread
out that when he comes down on
anything there are no slips and sprains
in store for him. II mar had the
comparative length of limb given to
the gr,sshoppcr, he could see a wo-
man with Il red sash-ri0bOn on, seven
miles ont Promenade street. If his
limbs had the comparative strength
of Il grtssh"pprl' he could kick i'll a
hundred saloon doors in an evening.
md not feel Il bit weary. Ihes, hind
les are hinged, for Jumping. Nature
meant that every @rasShCiIcr should
Jump a full ten feet, and where any
OF them comt down short, it Is be
cause of Il lazy disposition.
Observe lis eyes. They are so
set that lac can see in all directions
at once. While chewing away on
the handle OF a barn shovel he can
look for late corn with his left eye,
and squirt for the farmers dog with
IL, r;rh. wh,n van ;,aa;n, ,hat
you can get the skulk on 4 grass
ava Loai. IA, II
could see As we'll aS this insect, his
w;t, un,It ,.,.r IL. ohl.. ~ s,r,r;s,
him ,L;lo woll,i,a !, tho ,.,l, .;,h
o,o,Lo. l.a,
/, oa1;,;no :, h;s l,,a lo.,s ,ho
rros.ho,nnr In. ui,.,,s ,n1 !. ,bor.-
,,s ,ah,.a - t.a.l, ~ ,hi,,s
r. .t
;l., ,h,,, ill.,. hi,, dou.o
8 ,o .auo.n:n o..l on. ur.l. IF On
,i.,r would J.. oL.nrl Whom tired
49,. ~. .,n,Il,
c.lo Ill ho,,n.. o;,. .irro,
a..
.u,.., 1ra,a o,,oa,n :, .,
,r,
w.v. soma ono ON hanI "a .-,imats
,ha,o, n,,ohor of ,i,,,1 of th,.,
"
~iiiSc't9. II - S'hSiatS tht l"9t'
mastcr or some onc else good III liz
, ures. and the number is always givcl
900. ,..ot.o hil;or. If ,h.,a Lo,,o,
, =" u" Two 'h''e o''' "''l arc So"''
lame or bltnt old insects not Wortl