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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 5

A machine just put on the market is slated to produce a picture-postcard portrait, properly developed, fixed, washed, and dried in four minutes. It is operated by a piectj of money inserted in a slot by the "sitter," and performs its complicated functions without any help from anybody. It, is the invention of an linglish engineer in France. At the timo of the great strike last llarch, there were 162,000 members of the South Wales Miners' Federation; since then the membership has declined by something like GO,OOO. F<£ turned day into night in London on Saturday morning, February 15, and early afternoon. There was not much ;fog on the surface of the ground, but overhead was a dense black pall of vapour through which light could not penetrate. Lamps were lit in all tlio shops and streets. Rain, which fell 'through tlio fog, became nearly black, and was. practically mud ero it reached the ground; however, it gradually cleared the fog enough to bring back. daylight.