Morris tribune., 1881-08-11
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

No Doubt Of His Recovery-The Ball Located
t. the Satisfaction of the Surgeons.
An interview with DR.. Hamilton is even
stronger in its statement than in his dispatch
to his wife on Saturday. He says emphaticslly
of the president: s'There is no reasonable
doubt of his recovery" evil you permit me
to ask one question? Do you think the presi-
dent will be able to resume his duties?" 'He
will undoubtedly be able to resume certain
class of official duties within a week or two"
On Monday, Professor Bell, arranged bis
electrical instrument in the presidents CHAM
Der and placed the telepho to his ear. The
arrangement of coils is seven inches long by five
inches wide and was placed upon the black and
blue spot where the ball had appeared for some
time to be located, and the ticking of the in
strumeht was heard. In no other place could
the ticking of the instrument be ascertained
The attending physicians were completely sat
lsti d that the precise location Of the ball had
been ascertained.
&C Yes, we found the ball, said DR.. Bliss, in
reply to a question. cit lies five inches below
Of the median line, 1T is embedded, should
think, about one and cne-half inches below the
surface Uf the interior wall of the abdomen
Of course we can only estimate the depth at
which the ball lies below the surface. should
think the president has lost about forty five
GRAFTON, together with what we can feel by
pressing the flesh about the spot where tue
bullet lies, should think it's depth to be
about one ard one-half inches.
About foal davs after tho shoot
ing we observed the black and blue spot over
the ball, as we supposed, but of course we
could not be sure of it until to-day, when
! pressed the flesh around the spot, the president
said that he felt something hard aud was sure
it was the ball"
do you intend to attempt to remove it?"
sNot unless it is absolutely necessary. Ii
the ball becomes encysted it will never be re-
moved. On the other hand, if after the presi-
dent recovers aud begins to walk we should
F, find the ball was gravitatiDg downward where
| it might do injury, it will be cut out"
| THE NEW INVENTION.
| Prof Bells new induction balance consists of
| two fiat coils about two inches in diameter and
| one-half inch in thickness of insulated copper.
| battery, condenser, and interrupter or cir
| cult breaker and telephone ends of primary OF
| inducting coil, which are connected with the
poles of the battery, aud in the same circuit arc
| condenser and email interrupter, whose vi
brating tone opens and closes the circuit with
great rapidity. The ends Of the secondary coil,
| in which the current is to be induced, are car
| ried to the binding posts of a Bell telephone.
When connections have thus been made, the
secondary coil is laid on the primary coil, and
their respective circumferences exactly COIN
eide. The circuit breaker is then set in mo-
ton and the rapidly of the interrupted circuit
| through the primary coil induces another cur
rent of higher intensity in the secondary coil,
and as it does so a low musical tone is heard in
the telephone with which the secondary coil is
connected. So long as the current mentioned
and the ciroumferences of the two coils are
Aept in exact coincidence, the musical tone in
the telephone does not change its pitch or in
tensity. If, however, the experimenter slides
the upper coil along an inch or so lower, so
that their circumferences no longer
correspond, the intensity Of the musical
tone is diminished just in proper
ton us the centers of the fiat coils are sep
arated by greater or less distance, the intensity
| Of musical tone is lessened or increased By
delicate manipulation it is possible to adjust
the centers of the overlapping coils at such a
/ distance, one from the other, that perfect
balance is brought about, and when this is the
/ case the telephone makes M sound whatever
As soon as the balanced coils begin to feel dis
turl a1ce caused by their approach to the en-
bedded bullet, the telephone announces the
| fact by continuous musical noise, and grows
louder until the overlapping parts of the coils
are directly above the disturbing metal, when
! the sound reaches its maximum.