3.  The foreman of an industrial work shop can see from his home the men under his charge.

4.  The superintendent of any large works can, at his will, peer into any apartment he wishes from his head office.  The advantages of this arrangement can be easily seen.

5.  A minister can see from his study the nature of his audience before he leaves home.

6.  Farmers can watch their cattle and their fruits without leaving the house or barn, according to where the connections are made.

7.  Persons can be in bed at night, and if they imagine they hear a robber in any room they can first turn on the photograph current and 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 which they are now living.

It is also claimed that, when their earth cools and the frigid blasts freeze out the world, there will gradually commence the Age of Ice, or the age in which human species will exist by reason of the earth’s stiff coldness.

I had no way of learning the truth or falsity of this theory.

THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY.

These Ploidites have distanced us in the study of the nervous system, including the intricate problems of the cerebrum and cerebellum.  They have ascertained, by long ages of observation and experimenting, the exact effect of every kind of impulse on the brain matter.  The experts are able to tell, at a post-mortem examination, what kinds of thinking were most prevalent during the subject’s life, just as easily as we can judge the great or little use of the arm by an examination of its muscles.

But more wonderful, a thousand fold, is their ability to follow the course of thought in a living cerebrum after the brain has been made visible by a light more potent than the X ray.  After this exposure the operator, with his wizard magnifying lens, watches the tiny tremulous brain cells in their infinitesimal quivering, as they carry messages from the soul to the world of sense and being.