Henry Sienkiewicz, the famous Polish rtovelist, is said to be one of the -most influential leaders of the present movemerit for home rule in Poland, and the Russian Government is expected any day to treat him as it treated Gorky. The microphotoscope, invented by a Berlin chemist, though no larger, than a cigar-case, permits of consulting the map of the whole district by night ''"as .well as by day. The map is photographed in minature on a plate of ground-glass, which is illumined by a small incandescent lamp supplied, when required, with current from a battery, while a lens can be adjusted to the observer's sight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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