The Portland daily press., 1895-08-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Amelia Sternecker has invented a fen,
der for trolley cars which will be given a
trial by the San francisco electric rail
ways. She is but seventeen years of age,
but has had q passion for machinery since
her early childhood.
Nine Rowstowska of Lille, France, is
112 ye ars old. she served as a cantiniere
of a Polish regiment during the Russian
campaign, was twelve times under fire,
receiving three wounds, and was decorate
ed with the silver cross. She has sur
yiVed her fifteen children.
Mrs. Hobbs, widow of the late Captain
Thomas Hobbs of Barnabya, King coun-
ty, Ireland formerly of the Ninety second
H1ghlanders who fought in the cam
palgns against Napoleon in the early part
or the century, celebrated her 101St birth
day recently, and is still vigorous.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
made an appropriation of $25 300 for an
exhibit at the Cotton States and Inter-
national Exposition, and the commission
appointed by the Governor is urgently
demanding large space. Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois
will all erect buildings as headquarters
for the citizens from the respective States
visiting the Exposition, but will install
their exhibits in the buildings of the Elk
position Company. In California, the
work of organizing and preparing for the
exhibit from the State is in active prog
ress, and reports indicate that California
will lead the van of the State displays
at the Exposition. A display which cost
5, 600 to collect will be brought to Attain
ta
j.
The Boston Floating Hospital has
again started on it's work of helping to
keep cool and to make we'll the little in
valids of the slums of the Hub About
four hundred persons were taken care of
on the first trip. All the way out of the
Harbor and back, the doctors on board
devote as much time to teaching the
mothers how to properly care for their
children, as they do in doctoring the
children themselves. 1t is certain that
the majority of the mothers know less
than nothing as to the right way to care
for little ones in midsummer.
In his work on the senile heart DR..
Balfour tells us that there are two parts
of the human organism which, if wisely
used, largely escape senile failure. y
These two are the brain and the heart.
Persons who think have often wondered
why brain workers, great statesmen and
others, should continue to work with al
most unimpaired mental activity and en-
ergy up to period when most of the NJ
gals and functions of the body are in a
condition of advanced senile decay There
is physiological reason for this, and
DR.. Balfour tells us what it is The nor
NAL brain, he affirm s, "remains vigorous
to the last, and that "because its nu-
TRITON is especially provided for. -
About middle life, or q little later, the
general arteries of the body begin to lose
their elasticity and to slowly but surely
dilate. They become, therefore, much
less efficient carriers of the nutrient blood
to the capillary areas. But this is not
the case with the internal carotids, which
supply the capillary areas of the brain
On the contrary, these large vessels icon
SO that the blood pressure remains nor,
mally higher than within the capillary
area of any other organ in the body.
The cerebral blood-paths being thus kept
open, the brain tissue is kept better
nourished than the other tissues of the
body"
This summers meeting marks the
twenty fifth anniversary of the Chautau-
qua. 1t owes it's existence to Bishop
John Vincent of the Methodist Church
During its quarter-century existence the
school has had 2, $50 students in the re-
gular course, more than one-fourth of
whom have earned degrees, and nearly
every religious denomination has been
represented.