Grasshopper

an insect allied to the locust, cricket, and katydid. The dusty jumpers commonly called grasshoppers are locusts. The common grasshoppers of the meadows may be known from locusts by a green, transparent body and a pair of long, slender, delicate feelers which extend forward, or backward in some species beyond the tip of the abdomen. In general, the life of the grasshopper is like that of his shorthorned relative, the locust, to the article on which the reader is directed. We add an extract relative to the grasshopper, from each of two rival sonnets, the first by Keats, the second by Leigh Hunt:

See Locust

Gravity, Specific, the weight of a given substance as compared with that of an equal bulk of some other substance taken as a standard. The standard for solids and liquids is water; for gases, air or hydrogen. Thus, when we say the specific gravity of alcohol is .81 and silver 10.4, we mean that a cubic inch, for instance, of alcohol, weighs .81 as much as a cubic inch of water; and that a cubic inch of silver weighs 10.4 as much as a cubic inch of water. The comparative weights of a number of common substances are given in the following

TABLE OF SPECIFIC GRAVITIES.