The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-18

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A Berlin physician says that out OF
1000 girls who played the piano before
the age of twelve years he found GOO
cases Of nervous diseases; whereas,
out of the same number who did not
play the instrument he found but 100
cases. The author of these expert
ments states that the piano should
never be used by child before the age
of sixteen years. and only two hours a
day at the maximum.
In the treatment or fractures, galv,.
nism, faradism and static electricity
have all been used, both in rabbits and
in man. by Francesca Blasi. In all
cases the limb was made immovab!e.
In rabbits the galvanic current reduced
dropsical swelling very rapidly. there
were no signs of suffering. and the ami
mails walked and ran at once Oh re-
moval of the apparatus. One OF the
four human patients. with a fracture
that had shown no tendency to unite
after four weeks, was cured in three
weeks, while the other cases did well.
The conclusions were reached that gal
yanism is beneficial in all fractures. it
favors the formation Of callus, it Pc
duces to a minimum the time Of dis
ablement. and only temporary splint
and bandage are needed to keep the
limb in place.
An important advance in deep-sea
surveying, saving much of the labor OF
present methods, is claimed for the
acoustic sounding Of H. Berggraff. a
Norwegian engineer. The depth IS
estimated from the time taken by
sound to travel to the bottom and back,
the echo from two thousand feet being
received in one second, and the appara-
tus consists of transmitter, an acous-
tic receiver and a chronometer. The
transmitter is a slowly revolving disc.
which at each revolution closes an
electric circuit and energies magnet
operating vibrating armature. AT
each contact a sound is sent to the bot
tom of the sea. and the vibrations are
tuned to the only pitch to which the
specially constructed receiving micro
phone will respond. In accurate work,
the time of contact and that OF the re-
turn of the sonud are registered with
great precision on the revolving drum
of chronograph.
Pioneers in science often fix more
than one set of standards to the in
finite embarrassment of their success
ors. Just now chemists are seeking TO
decide upon the important matter or a
unit of atomic weights, and after much
controversy, have agreed to disagree.
Primitive chemistry was satisfied 10
give hydrogen the atomic weight or
one and oxygen sixteen. This is not
sufficiently exact for modern require
ments. for if hydrogen be fixed at one
oxygen will really be only 1855, and IL
oxygen be rated at sixteen. then n.y.
drogen will rise to 1.OOo. This small
difference has become important. After
its years Of deliberation, the 1nterna-
tional Committee on Atomic Weights
still finds chemists about equally d.
vided between the two standards, and
so instead of selecting one, they have
published two lists of carefully revised
atomic weights of all elements now
known, one list placing oxygen at six
teen, and the other based upon hydro
gen at one. 1t is interesting to note
that while the report was being printed
the German Chemical Society decided
emphatically in favor Of oxygen at SIX
teen. .-
DR.. Henner. a German chemist, has
been experimenting with cocoanut
oil, and finds that it makes very sat
isfactory article Of butter. 1t contains
seven per cent. of soluble acids, name
". butyric acid and capric or decycllc
acid. which gives the butter a pleasant
aroma and SAVIOR, making it taste some
thing like hazelnut. This butter will
/ tkeep fifteen or twenty days before
showing any acid reaction, sustains
many of the tests Of true butter, for
| which it is a better substitute than
oleomargarine, and can be produced
much more cheaply. Posterity Will
face a scarcity of milk and the butter
made therefrom, so rapid is the in
crease of population and so restricted
in comparison the available area Tor
pasturage, and perhaps the cocoa tree
may come in as the most useful auxll'
iary Of the COW anywhere to be found
Much may be hoped from DR.. Henner'
experiments, as leading the way to
others. and possibly to final success.
thus utilizing a substance which can
be produced practically without limit,
and which is of known wholesome
ness and puri
"To Tu r Tooter to Toot."
"What wQhd you tell the policeman
if you got l6st? asked mother of her
four-year- id daughter.
"I'd tell ~ to take me to my papa"