Eureka Reporter | 1903-10-02 | Page 7 | Most Brilliant of Fireflies

most brilliant of fireflies fireflies of the light giving insects the cu cuyo of the tropics is the most bril biant thirty eight of them yield one candle power photographs haye have been printed by two minute exposure of bromide plates to their illumination people in cuba confine them in paper lanterns for goine about the cour tr at night and tor for indoor li gating sometimes they attach one of the in sects to each foot for traveling in the dark to serve as a guide to the pith also 1 they use them as ornaments for the dress and hair