Show photographs ON SKIN wl ich er ap pile I 1 to tl e cuticle A scientific discovery is bound to be picturesque and interesting and must attract universal attention A rou manian chemist named D discovered a means of combining the substances which are used in ing paper for photographic purposes so that they can be applied to the hu man cuticle without injuring it and the skin thus be made a sensitive plate for the printing of photography Dinke resco s remark ibis discovery is a combination of photography and the etching process and that to some ex tent the image Is bitten into the cuticle at any rate the impression Is permanent the image Is clear and distinct and the skin is not made a negative but really a sort of sens sized paper the impression does not wear away with the change of the sues and the renewal of the surface of the skin because the substances or changes which have been produced by the process of photography are re dewed according to the modifications produced by the biting prows just as those of a tattooed outline are and whatever the mechanical means employed the res its aie remarkable by this means every human being becomes a sort of photograph album the likenesses of his friends land views assoc abed with his child hood or with significant events in his life portraits of the great men and heroes whom he admires and many other things may be reproduced beau and permanently on his face on the big steamer oceanic there Is no seat at table marked IMO 13 nor any cabin bearing that number T ahls is a concesa on to superstition in polls news |