The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-23

The degree of IL. ID. has been CON
ferred on Miss Helen Shafer, President
of Wellesley College, by Oberlin Col
lege, of which she is graduate.
1t is said that the wife of New
York millionaire has for The last three
years been travelling all over Europe
trying to match pearl.
The Queen of Greece is the Pres
ident of a sisterhood devoted to the
reformation of criminals. The Queen
herself personally visits the prisoners.
Queen Victoria is superstitious about
precious stones She invariably wears
a Chrysophrase in one form or another,
and thinks it brings her good luck.
Mark Twain's eldest daughter, Miss
Clara Clemens, not yet twenty years OF
age, has written a play of an allegorlcal
character, which is said TO be charming
and clever
1t is announced that the lnfanta
Eulaia, after her return to Spain from
America, found it advisable to 60 into
retirement for time, as her nerves
were completely shattered.
Little Wound the new chief of the
Sioux nation, is six feet tall, sixty years,
and got his name from an injury to his
ankle received in battle with white
men when he was twelve years old.
The only ornament worn by the
widowed Archduchess Stephanie of
Austria is a locket containing on one
side the portrait Of her little daughter
and on the other that of her mother,
the Queen of Belgium.
In Austrian society it is the custom
to take partner for only one round Of
dance. By this means ladies and
gentlemen change partners five or SIX
times in a single dance.
Miss Lillian Morri;t, an English
phenomenon, has the power of retain
ing in her memory hundreds of com
pick figures, and of multiplying, de
ducting and adding at the same time
any of the cross figures.
Mrs Magnussen of Iceland, one of
the delegates to the Suffrage Congress,
said IN her paper before the members
of that body that the women of Iceland
did not claim the suffrage, but that it
was being thrust upon them by the
men.
Mrs. Grafton Ross, an English W.
man, has invented a tool for killing
obnoxious weeds in gardens. 1t is in
the form tf hollow piercer through
which poison is conveyed to the very
heart Of the root of a stubborn weed,
causing it to shrivel up in a very short
time.
Miss Laura NJ. Ulden of Virginia
City has been admitted to practice be-
fore the courts of Nevada by the Su-
preme Court. She passed very
creditable examination and was highly
complimented by the Judge, who has
never admitted a woman before to the
Nevada bar.
Miss Bertha L4mme Of Springfield,
O., has the honor t, BE- tn, first woman
in the world to receive the degree OF
electrical engineer. she has led her
class all through the CourS in the Ohio
State University, and has now accepted
position with the Westinghouse Elec
trio Company at Pittsburgh
The two daughters of the banker f.
P. Bergaminl of New York, have sur
rendered their private fortunes in order
to pay the debts Of their fathers estate.
They will be left penniless and will
support themselves by music teaching
and stenographic work. Besides this
they devote their personal attention to
the payment of the claims Of the
people, many of whom are Italians and
unable to speak English.
Captain Magnus Andersen claims
that but for his wife the Viking would
not have been built, and he could no
nave sailed 1t across the Atlantic
Whenever he was discouraged anC
ready to abandon his pan. her faitl
and enthusiasm still undaunted, en-
, courssed him to take up the plan again
Half d, Zen times he gave it up, a!
many times she inspired him to begir
{ again.
AS companion story to the anec
doles of women who have posed a.
. soldiers of proves, is tale of a Ger
man youth who, in order to escape be
ing soldier at all, put on petticoat
and hired himself out as a cook. Whel
!, the youth was traced to his employer
house his pursuers learned that he wa
, quite jewel among servants. n,
spent but little time over his toilet, tn
looking glass had no attractions 70
him, and he was, moreover, goot
cook.
AT McGill College, Montreal, whicl
is co-educational, out Of eleven student
graduating with honors six are women
! and out Of five medallsts three ar
: women. A college statistican, in guini
Z over the figures, finds that, in proper
, ton to their numbers, the women hav,
. done three times as well as the men
Still, it must be remembered that thes
figures are based upon averages. On
exceptional girls are now to be foun,
in the colleges. while all sorts and cor