FRACTURE 



2293 



FRANC 



%6 of an acre of town land sold for $1650. 

 At this rate what will an acre sell for? 



acre = f!650 



Solution : 



Cost of 9 

 Cost of 1 



Or we may change the mixed number to a 

 fraction and the first problem will appear thus : 



Cost of % bolt = $19 

 Cost of bolt = 



Such problems may also be analyzed through 

 the fractional unit, as follows: 

 Costof%bolt = $19' 

 Cost of % bolt=$*%=$9% 

 Cost of bolt = 5 X $9%= $471,4 

 Cost of % 6 acre = $1650 

 Cost of Via acre = $i65%= $550 

 Cost of 1 acre=16x$550 = $8800. A.H. 



FRACTURE, jrak' ture, a word taken from a 

 Latin word meaning break, and used commonly 

 to designate the breaking of a bone. There is 

 the simple fracture, in which there is no com- 

 munication between the broken bone and the 

 outer air ; the compound fracture, in which ' 

 there does exist such communication; the mul- 

 tiple form, in which there is more than one 

 break; the comminuted, in which the bone is 

 splintered; and several others. Fractures may 

 occur at any age, but the bones of very young 

 persons and .of very old persons are far more 

 fragile and liable to breakage than are those 

 of strong persons in middle life. 



Many fractures are easily detected. There 

 is intense pain, soreness or tenderness; swell- 

 ing; an abnormal point of motion; and, when 

 the ends of the bones are rubbed together, a 

 curious crackling. In some bones, however, 

 not all these symptoms can be detected after 

 breakage, and only surgical examination or the 

 X-ray can reveal the fracture. No one but a 

 surgeon should attempt to reduce a fracture, 

 and all that can be done until the arrival of 

 a surgeon is to prevent any motion of the 

 injured part. 



FRA DIAVOLO, jrah deah'volo (71770- 

 1806), the popular name given to MICHELE 

 PEZZA, an Italian bandit who was born at 

 Calabria. As the leader of a band of des- 

 peradoes in the mountains of Calabria, he ter- 

 rorized the entire country by his daring attacks 

 and robberies. His barbarous cruelties and the 

 fact that he had originally been a monk gained 

 him the name of Fra Diavolo, which is Italian 

 for brother devil. He was made a colonel by 

 Ferdmand of Naples, with whom he united 

 against the French. He was afterwards con- 

 victed of inciting a rebellion and was exe- 



cuted. Auber's opera, Fra Diavolo, is founded 

 upon Pezza family traditions, but is not in- 

 tended to be historically accurate. 



FRAMINGHAM, jraym' ing ham, MASS., a 

 city of Middlesex County, including within its 

 limits the villages of Framingham Center, 

 South Framingham, Saxonville and Nobscot. 

 The Federal census of 1910 and an estimate 

 in 1916 reported 12,948 and 13,982 inhabitants, 

 respectively. The city is located in the central- 

 eastern part of the state, twenty-one miles west 

 of Boston, twenty-three miles northeast of 

 Worcester and twenty-five miles south of Low- 

 ell. It is on the New York, New Haven & 

 Hartford and the Boston & Albany railroads. 



Framingham is the seat of a state normal 

 school, the first in the United States, which 

 was established at Lexington in 1839, removed 

 to Newton in 1844, and to its present site in 

 1853. It also has an historical and natural his- 

 tory society, a library, one public and three 

 private hospitals, an almshouse and a home 

 for the aged. In 1916 the erection of a new 

 Federal building was begun. 



South Framingham is the principal business 

 and banking center. It has large manufactories 

 of paper tags, crepe paper, gummed labels, 

 paper boxes, boots and shoes, and rubber and 

 straw goods. Woolen yarns, wool blankets and 

 worsted cloths are manufactured in Saxonville. 

 Stoves, plows, steam boilers and farming im- 

 plements are among the numerous other manu- 

 factures. The Dennison Ta'g Company has 

 more than 2,500 employees. 



Framingham was first settled about 1640. 

 It was named in honor of Framlingham, the 

 English home of Governor Thomas Danforth. 

 He once owned the land upon which the settle- 

 ment was made, And the town was called Dan- 

 forth's Plantation until 1700, when it was in- 

 corporated under its present name. R.E.K. 



FRANC, frank, a silver coin adopted in 1795 

 as the monetary unit of France, in the same 

 sense that the dollar is the unit of United 

 States and Canada money. It is equivalent 

 to 19.3 cents. The franc is divided into 100 

 centimes, but the smallest coin in circulation 

 in France is the five centime piece, called a 

 sou. Silver coins of five, two, one and half a 

 franc are still in use, though gold is the 

 standard, represented by coins of ten and 

 twenty francs. Practically the same coin has 

 been adopted as the monetary unit of Italy, 

 where it is called a lira; of Greece, where it is 

 known as a drachma; and also of Belgium, 

 where the French term franc is used. 



