Fracture

the breaking of a bone. It is divided into simple and compound; simple when the bone only is injured; compound when the soft coverings are so injured that either one of the fractured ends protrudes through the skin, or the skin and muscles are so lacerated as to expose the bone. Fra Diavolo (‘‘ The Devil’s brother”), a Neapolitan robber, whose real name was Michael Pozzo; born in Itri, in 1760. He began life as a stocking maker, after which he became a friar, and in this capacity was the leader of a gang of banditti in Calabria. In 1799 he a isted Cardinal Ruffo, who headed the counter revolutionists in favor of the Bourbons of Naples. For this he received a pardon of his crimes and a pension of 3.600 ducats, with which he was enabled to purchase an estate. He lived in peace till 1806, when he rose again in favor of the ex- — Bourbons. He entered Spaing a, and threw _ the prisons, when he was joined by large numbers of lazzaroni; but after a severe engagement with the Bonapartists, he was taken prisoner, condemned, and executed the same year.