then the light flash. In this way one can look, without leaving his bed,
into each room of the house.

Having given a few illustrations of this marvelous invention, the reader
can readily see the variety of uses which it will serve.

Their latest discovery in light is a decided improvement over our
electric light. I know of no sensible name to give it, but the name that
comes nearest to describing it, according to our terms, would be
Phosphorous Light. It gives a mild but yet positive radiance, and
closely resembles diffused sunlight.


THE AGES OF PLOID.

One of the strangest theories of the whole universe I found on this
cultured world of Ploid. They divide time into three general periods of
ages:

1. Age of Fire.

2. Temperate Age.

3. Age of Ice.

The people teach that there was a race of human beings who inhabited
their world when it was yet in a molten state and that, as their earth
cooled off, the race became extinct.

This age, they claim, was followed by the Temperate Age, or the age in