The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-06-10
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A.French inventor has discovered a
new way of making roads free from
dust. At cost of two cents per square
yard he covered q macadamized road
with q coat of tar, and found 1t, after
four mouths, in excellent condition, al.
though heavy wagons as well as car
riages had used it.
DR.. Figueria, of Brooklyn, N. T., has
successfully performed on a hosp:ta!
patient an operation which has hitherto
proved fatal in all similar cases. The
patient was suffering from paralysis of
the right side and tumor Of the brain,
due to q fall. To remove the rapidly
charging growth twelve square inches
Of the. skull was lifted and the tumor
and an eighth of the brain removed.
The next day the paralysis began to
disappear and the mans sight to re.
turn.
The Steljes typewriting telegraph, as
used by the London police. is an appa-
ratus for sending message simulta-
neously and in typewriter characters
to several places at once. The battery
is a powerful magnet, and the parts are
actuated by springs. The operator at
one end touches the keys representing
the letters and figures, at the same
time turning handle, and the message
is received and printed automatically
by all the recording instruments on the
circuit.
In the Medical Journal Is an interest
ing account Of a queer accident. The
patient was brought to the hospital in a
state of asphyxia, which had come on
without warning, the lad being perfect
ly we'll. A few minutes after his adj
mission to the hospital another and
more intense paroxysh set in. The sec
ond attack ceased after time, the boy
becoming perfectly quiet and comfort
able. A new attack followed, however
with increasing intensity, which led DR.
Mollica to suspect foreign body In the
windpipe. A tube was inserted, the
breathing became quiet, but after q
time another attack Of asphyxia set in
with the tube in place. The tube was
then withdrawn, and large leech was
found to have crawled into it. The pa
tient was we'll in a few days. The au
thor was Of the opinion that the alter
nations in the spasms Of asphyxia Were
due to the leech crawling about in the
windpipe. and thus giving the lad time
to breathe, and again closing the
trachea. :.
In the course of a lecture at the Con
ference of Musicians in Dublin, Ire
land, some interesting particulars and
some astonishing statistics were given
relatively to the amount of work ac
complished by the brain and nerves in
piano playing. A pianist in view Of the
present state of pianoforte playing has
to cultivate the eye to see about 15OO
signs in one minute, the fingers to
make about 1000 movements, and the
brain to receive and understand separ-
ately y the 1900 signs while it issues 1000
orders. In playing Weber's "Moto per.
petuo." pianist has to read 4541 notes
in little under four minutes. This is
about nineteen per second; but the eye
oan raceive onlV about ten consecutive
impressions per second, so that 1t is
evident that in very rapid music a
player does not see every note singly,
but in groups, probably a bar or more
at one vision. In Chopin's "Etude in e
Minor" Gn the second set) the speed of
reading is still greater, since it Is neces-
sary to read $3.50 signs in two minutes
and q half, which is equivalent to
about twenty-six notes per second.
Hetty Green's Retort.