The Bessemer indicator., 1893-05-27
A FRENCH DUKES DISCOVERY.
De Morny's Device for choapeninx tho
Cost of Photographic rrInts.

De Morny's Device for Choaponinx tho
Cost Of Photographic rrlnts.
That distinguished amateur photog.
rapher, the due do Morny, has com.
municated to the French war Office a
process by which paper OF any kind
or thickness can receive photo
graphic print, snys the London Tele-
graph. Eighty copies can be printed
per minute at triiling expense. and
note paper, season tickets, etc, may
thus boar Photographic portraits Of
the owner. General Saussier, the
commandant Of the garris n in Paris
Is engaged, it is stated, In making
experiments with view to applying
the process to the ..livfets," or cir.
tificates of service and character do.
livered to soldiers, and ere long per.
haps the duo de Morny's system o.
cheap Photographic printing may be
adopted in the case OF the "livrets, y
which workmen and domestic serv.
ants in Franco are expected to pos.
sess.
OF tho usefulness OF cheap photo
graphic portraits on season tickets
and other documents which may lead
to personal Identification Of the real
proprietor there can scarcely be any
doubt. Still, it must not be forgotten
that the multiplication OF very cheap
Photographic portraits has long been
practiced in the United States. where
photographers for q very moderate
consideration will supply client
with 100 little efagies of himself
printed on a sheet Of paper gummed
ct the back, the sheet being divisable
by means OF perforations into squares
Of the exact size Of postage stamps,
so that the tiny portraits can then be
used at the possessor's own sweet
will He may stick one inside the
cover Of every book in his library or
affix them as seals to the envelopes
Of the letters which he dispatches to
his friends and acquaintances.
Travellers in Russia, in the East.
and in all countries where foreigners
are looked upon with suspicion would
also act wisely in causing themselves
to be Photographed on their pass
ports and their visiting cards. and
there are, indeed. hundreds OF trans
actions in social hfe which might be
considerably facilitated BY attaching
photographs, swiftly and cheaply OBJ
tanned, to articles in general use. il
when check was made payable to
bearer, little postage-stamp like
photograph OF the bearer himself
could be gummed on the face of tho
document, the appearance of tho
counterfeit presentment would be
sufficient to assure tho bank .
cashier that the check had not got
into wrong hands.
The duo de Morny's ingenious i'm.
provement in Photographic printing
is only further illustration of the
almost innumerable possibilities Of
photography itsolf, yet it is passing
strange and somewhat mournful to
admit that some of the easiest ex-
periments in photography were dis
tinotly associated with the production
or alteration OF corta'n colors under
given conditions, but that at tho
present time, Immense as have been
the developments in this. the most
scientific Of all arts, We seem to be
IS far as ever from the infinitely
yearned-for discovery OF any method
Of perfectly reproducing, by means
Of the lens, the camera. and the
sensitized plato, images In tho exact
OOlorN 0f uafure