Show EQUALS BEST BARON TOLD achievements of modern science mako make story more incredible than any of Munchausen a baron famous book of travels was waa published in 1786 1785 exactly a century couture and a quarter ago that I 1 bat Is not a very long time says the new york evening post hut suppose munchausen had professed to carry hla his travels into an undiscovered land where science and invention haddad had had a 4 start of a century or two as con com pared with europe and suppose that ho he had told of an invention by which i permanently impressed spona a alta by a brief exposure to light that t first it took bonus minutes or of ex e kosure to make the picture but that year by year methods wen we n 3 found fo the ot of toa plates until at last a fluture could bp be obtained 4 in an almost infinite infinitesimal minal fraction of f a second that a amusement of the people was to look at a swift succession of pictures of this kind portraying nying persons ova things in moon TOO on which produced pi deduced educed urn up n the eye the precise impression of tile the original hying scene but that somo some exhibitors ot of such scenes got into trouble because the actors actor in them thein had indulged in n ale language forgetful of tho the fact that the motion of their lips was perfectly reproduced produced le and that deaf mutes had bad been taught to read iad i ad the lips would not this story have been regarded as equaling in incredibility and surpassing in grotesqueness tesque ness almost alnio st adyth anything ing the baron actually put into his book |