A PERFECT LIGHT
The light of fireflies is one of the few things in this world which merit the tcraT “perfect.” A gas flame is only o per cent, efficient, developing 97 per cent, of useless, invisible heat or chemical rays; the blazing glare of the electric arc is only 10 per cent, of what it ought to be, and most astonishing of all is the_ fact that sunshine gives off only 35 per cent, of visible light rays. Unlike Stevenson’s ‘Lantern Bearers,’ tho glow, deepcloaked within the body of a, firefly, is wholly lacking in heat; it is 100 per cent, pure flame. —William Beobo, in tho ‘ Cornhill Magazine.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19127, 19 December 1925, Page 22
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110A PERFECT LIGHT Evening Star, Issue 19127, 19 December 1925, Page 22
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