Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — The Photographic Art. [ARTICLE]

The Photographic Art.

One of the best photographers in Europe took a bank note for 5,000 francs on the Bank of France, and photographed one so much like it that the bank's judges, the photographer himself, and, in act, all who have seen the two, are unable to distinguish which from tother. The hank considers such success rather dangerous. But the greatest photographic achievement, is that ot an Italian savant, who, after six years’ trial, is said to have secured a surfac lor photographic pictures, perfectly free from irregularities, capable of distorting the most imperceptible lines of a photograph, and to have taken on this surface a photograph of the the moon, one which figures of naked animals are depicted, one species of which bears great resemblance to human beings. is now the “land of promise.” Judge Pettit has already granted about twen-ty-five divorce cases. It requires only twenty days residence. A gentleman living in Indiana, was recently astonished to learn that his wife, while then visiting a friend in Kansas, had obtained a divorce, and was passing herself off as a blooming “Miss” of sweet sixteen. “Cold feet is a sufficient ground for a divorce.”