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THE PHONOGRAM . •u graph has fallen the credit of being the means by which deafness should be cured: and upon Dr. Garey, of Baltimore, has de- volved the honor of discovering the adap- tation of the means to this end. So let all honor be given to Edison, who invented the phonograph, and to Dr. Garey. who discovered its adaptation for the cure of deafness /’—Washington Daily Post, Feb- ruary 21, 1892. A public demonstration was given re- cently at the Southern Homeopathic Hos- pital in Baltimore, by Dr. II. F. Garey, who has made a discovery that by using the phonograph the deaf may be cured. His principle is, that the sound emanat- ing from the instrument produces a massage of those parts of the ear which transmit sound to the brain, by giving continuous and successive vibrations at regular intervals. This it does with cer- tain degrees of intensity and frequency, according to the exigencies of the case. In bad cases, a series of intensified shocks at the rate of one to the second is pro- duced against the drum. In cases of not over five years standing, the vibrations are given with more frequency and less intensity. All patients who are under treatment for deafness at this college report that they have been greatly benefited. Fifteen Years with the Marine Band. Mr. Geo. \Y. Sousa completed fifteen years’ service in the Marine Band on the 8th of Februarv last, and took one dav • * off to celebrate the occasion. He enlisted on the 9th for five years more. lie is librarian of the band and on* of the hand- somest as well as most popular of its members. No greater evidence of his attachment for his comrades could !>e imagined than his staying out of the fold only one day. He is a brother of John Philip Sousa, who is the leader of this famous musical organization, which gives through the phonograph the finest music in the world. A Meteoric Stone Containing Gold. We are informed that Mr. H. \Y. Turner, geologist, of Washington, D.jC., has been engaged for some years exploring the gold- bearing sections of the Sierras, under the direction of the California Division of Mining Geology. While engaged in this manner, he came upon a piece of stone containing gold, the exact locality in which it was found being near Cave City, Calaveras County. The cut shows the nugget about “one- half its actual size. It is covered at intervals by a thin crust of gold, in one place the metal showing about an inch square.. Mr. Turners find is important, as heretofore the mftst thorough research has failed to discover the least trace of this metal, the component parts being iron and nickel. The meteoric iron is very malleable, tjiough tough, and con- tains, besides nickel,^i^o cobalt. This specimen will be sent to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. It used to take thirtv-five da vs to make a carriage. It is now made by the aid of machinery in twelvw days. Congressman Clancy and Postmaster Collins, of Brooklyn, advocated recently before the House Post-Office Committee, an appropriation of $90,000 to establish pneumatic tube connection between the New York and Brooklyn Post-Offices bv wav of the Brooklyn Bridge. * \ *