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568 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [SEPTEMBER 7, 1883. A grandson of Daguerre is still living, M. Behon- illustrating daily papers, before taking it to the magazines, Daguerre, a litterateur on the scientific press. where of course much finer work is desirable. A trial por- trait was printed in the Liverpool Echo last month, and now Thanks to the good offices of our Special Correspondent at the Bradford Telegraph is making experiment with the the Milwaukee Convention, we are enabled to place before process. Mr. Levy Lawson has also given his consent for a our readers the more interesting portion of the proceedings, trial in the Daily Telegraph printing office, where the The newly-elected President of the American Association is machines throw oft many thousands of copies in an hour. Mr. J. H. Kent, a widely-known portraitist of Rochester, New York. Our Spanish contemporary, the Boletin Fotograjico, being published in Havannah, ought to know something about Yet two other awards at the Brussels Exhibition, viz., developing gelatine plates in a hot climate, and this is a bronze medal to Mlle. Marg. Relvas, of Gollega, what it prescribes. Get two dishes, one a little larger than Portugal, and a similar distinction to Mr. William the other, so that they can fit into one another with half-an- Gillard, of Gloucester. inch between. The inner dish is to receive the developer, while the outer one is lined with felt, or thick flannel, or Says the Standard:—“ There were many attempts to other bad conductor of heat. When all is ready for deve- get a portrait of Marwood, but he always refused. An lopment, some crystals of nitrate of ammonium are spread enterprising photographer offered him £50 one day for a upon the felt, and the spaces between the two dishes are sitting, but he declined, his explanation being that one of also filled with crystals; water is then added, and a the things he enjoyed more than anything else was to go lowering of the temperature at once succeeds as the crystals to a town by an earlier train than he was expected, and dissolve. This is a capital way of cooling photographic mix in the crowd that was awaiting his arrival.” solutions, says our contemporary, when ice cannot ba obtained in the tropics. Nitrate of ammonium, we may Passing by the works of the Jablochkoff Electric Light add, costs but a shilling per pound. Company, we have observed an unusually brilliant electric light outside, and men inside working by gaslight. As the A propos of the subject of photography and tricycling, Company hold that electric lighting is cheaper and more referred to in another column, we may mention that Mr. convenient than gas, it is strange that they should put John Browning, F.R.A.S., the Chairman of the London themselves to the inconvenience of using the least desir- Tricycle Club, advocates the use of small wheels rather able illuminant than large ones. There is not so much fatigue in driving small wheels, and you can get up hill better. An astute gentleman, who is managing director of one of the largest photographic companies, started off to buy A strange attempt at suicide in a Berlin studio is a steam-engine His friends had spoken well of it, its narrated in the Archio , A young and popular actress of prime cost and working expense being less than the old one of the Berlin theatres was sitting in the chair, patterns, while the fewness of its parts seemed to indicate ready for a portrait to be taken, when an impressionable a minimum of outlay for repairs. He arrived at the assistant, overcome by the charms of the model before him, factory with a signed cheque in his pocket, but being suddenly threw down the dark slide and folded the lovely attracted by a " no admission ” notice on the door, he being in his arms, amid a rhapsody of glowing utterances, looked in, and saw that the driving engine of the works Naturally enough there was a scene; the lady was one of the old type. A characteristic smile illumined shrieked for help, and the love-struck youth was dragged his features, and he asked the foreman, who arrived at from the studio to the dark room. Unfortunately, a this instant if he could give him any information about a tragic end well nigh supervened; the impetuous lover former employe named Samuel Perkins. The foreman did seized a vessel containing bichloride of mercury solution, not reco ec t e name. and had almost succeeded in swallowing the poison when the glass was wrenched from his grasp. He is now " with Photography in connection with advertising is not un- his friends,” as they say in the police reports. known, but Messrs. Pears—of soap celebrity—have of late made a big stride in the art of combining the two. A It is passing strange to find our hard-headed American million impressions of the Prince of Wales in filigraine, and cousins seriously discussing the feasibility of banding half a million of Mrs. Langtry, have been utilised as hand- together against low prices. The idea formed the very first bills, with the heading “ Hold this sheet up to the light.” subject for discussion at the Milwaukee Convention, The filigraine portraits were produced by Messrs. Brown, several members visiting their displeasure in a marked Baines, and Bell, and are probably the cheapest photo- manner upon those who dared to sell photographs at cheaper graphic impressions that have ever been obtained. rates than themselves ; and hard words fell thick and fast for some time. Surely the matter, however deplorable it may Touching the photo-mechanical printing process of this be, is not to be improved by any system of “ protection firm — Luxotype — we hear that an endeavour is very indeed, we are accustomed to look to a great country like the wisely being made to enlist it first of all as a means of United States for broad views rather than narrow ones.