The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-18
a FRENCH DUKES DISCOVERY
De Morny's Device for Cheaponln2 tho
Cost of Photographic Prints. q

De Morny's Device for Cheaponln2 the
Cost of Photographic Prints.
That distinguishes amateur photog-
rapher, the due de Morny, has ON
municated to the French war Off &C
process by which paper of any kind
or thickness can receive a photo
graphic print, says the London Tele-S
graph. Eighty copies can be printed
per minute at trihing expense, and
note paper, season tickets, etc, NAV
thus bear 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 ''livrets," or cir
tiicates of service and character de-
livered to soldiers, and ere long per-
haps the due de Morny's system Of
cheap Photographic printing may be
adopted in the case of the .,livrets,''
which workmen and domestic serv-
ants in France are expected to pos
sess. / s2.>-s. Ell
! OF the usefulness of cheap pilot O.
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 very moderate
consideration will supply client
with 100 little efdgies of himself
printed on a sheet of paper gummed
at 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 acquaintance.
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 life which might be
considerably facilitated by attaching
photographs, swiftly and cheaply OBJ
tanned, to articles in general use. If
when a check was made payable to
bearer, a little postage-stamp like
photograph of the bearer himself
could be gummed on the face of the
document, the appearance of the
counterfeit presentment would be
sufficient to assure the banks
cashier. that the check had not got
into wrong hands.
The due de Morny's ingenious i'm
provement in Photographic printing
is only further illustration OF the
almost innumerable possibilities of
photography itself, yet it is passing
strange and somewhat mournful to
admit that some of the easiest ex-
periments in photography were dis
tinctly associated with the production
or alteration OF certain colors under
; given conditions, but that at the
present time, immense as have beer
the developments in this, the most
scientific of all arts, we seem to be
as far as ever from the Infinitely
yearnedfor discovery of any method
of perfectly reproducing, by means
of the lens, the camera. and the
sensitized plate, images in the exact
; colors Of nature. ~
She Called Him Down.
The boarding house joker has a
last met with a setback: He has
been crushed by the landlady, and i
came about in this way: "
He. was the only man at thu
table full of lovely girls, and like
all only men he was spoiled. 81
: when the belle of the table re
! marked that she was very fond o
pepper, and then sifted half the con
r tents of the pepper-box over he
r food, he sprang an old gag on her
S cit won't hurt you. This peppe
: is half pease. g.. -.s-
"What is that you say?" asked tn
S landlady from the next table, .sspea
y a little louder, won't you?' r.
J., He reiterated his remark. -.
a THAT isn't true" retorted tn
- landlady holly; IL do not use adul
g terated goods on my table. ~
t ''My dear madam" said the blan,
o joker, 'there are always lot of p
y in pepper. T. @ss
There was an impressive pause
j. then the landlady said in a crushin
# tone:
It "Oh, yes. just as you always fu1
n nish part of the dessert. y ~ 81
} Il don't understand. ~ " e
IL 1.-The chestnuts.' Detroit Ere
Press. -
~ Her Coolne s. ~ ~ H..
Mr.. Dasch-And now. you hay
,, your divorce and are free. But
IS hope you will always consider N
W your friend, and will not hesitate I
,. call on me for favor.
n Mrs. Dasch.-There is one thing
wish you would do for me.
ia Mr.. Dasch-Name it.