Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1901 — Photographing Closed Pages. [ARTICLE]

Photographing Closed Pages.

Library rules ordinarily forbid the removal of valuable books and engravings from the premises, so that there is trouble In obtaining photographic oopies of pictures or plates, the Introduction of artificial light, or even of a camera being commonly prohibited. A method of getting over this difficulty, which has been tried recently with success, Is to coat a piece of cardboard with a phosphorescent substance, and, after sufficient exposure to the sun, place it at the back of the picture to be reproduced. Then (supposing that the picture' is in a book) a dry plate is put against the face of it, and the volume is closed. This can be managed vdr'y easily by manipulating the dry plate under a cloth that covers the book. The dry plate is allowed to remain from eighteen to sixty minutes, according to the nature and thickness of the paper. Then it is withdrawn, under the cloth as before, and put into a dark box for subsequent development. It is stated by the inventor of this process that, if films are used instead of dry plates, a large number of copies of different engravings in the same book may be made at the same time.—Saturday Evening Post. Couldn’t Wear Shoes. Sumpter, 111., June 10th.—Mrs. J. B. Tlanigan, of this place, had suffered with dropsy for fifteen years. She was so very bad that for the last three years she has not been able to wear her shoes. She had doctored all the time, but was gradually getting worse. Last winter Mr. Flanigan, who was very much discouraged, called for some medicine at Mr. J. J. Dale’s drug store In Carmi. Mr. Dale persuaded him to have his wife try Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and he bought six boxes. His wife used five out of the six, before she was entirely cured. She is now as sound and as well as ever she was, completely restored to health, and free from any symptom whatever of dropsy. To say that Mrs. Flanigan is pleased at her wonderful deliverance does not half express her feelings, and she and Mr. Flanigan are loud in their praises Of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and of Mr. Dale for recommending this wonderful remedy to them. The fact that Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured Mrs. Flanigan of such a severe case of dropsy, after the doctors bad given her up, has made them the most talked of remedy ever known in White county. Officers whq lose legs or arms in the service of the British army will hereafter be supplied with artifiicial limbs at the expense of the government.