The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-27
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

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Europe.
The Crown Princess of Sweden is
trying to establish women photograph
ers in Stockholm.
Among the nctables of Lucerne this
summer is Mary Anderson Navarro,
, with a devoted husband in attendance.
The tallest tree on earth is perhaps
gum tree, eucalyptus regnonS, recently
dis covered in Australia. 1t is AIS feet
high.
Doing is the great thing. For if,
resolutely, people do what is right, in
time they come to like doing it-Rns-
! kin.
The new program of public instruc-
ton adopted in France devo;es more
time to the study of English and less
to the study of German.
Some London music-hall shares,
lately sold, show that business is good.
The Tivoli sells 1t nearly 200, the Pa
vilion at I25 and the Empire at $50.
Miss Amye Reade, a neice Of the
novelist, Charles Read, has followed in
the footsteps Of her uncle to the extent
Of writing two novels, "Ruby" and
"Zerma."
The British Medical Association has
at last admitted women as members.
The principle was approved last year,
and this year the bylaw excluding
women was formally expunged
Queen Victoria proposes to erect a
csirn in memory of the marriage Of the
Duke of York. 1t will be in Scotland,
near the one she erected in remem-
brance of the wedding Of the Prince of
Wales.
A boy has been born in Falkirk
from a -year.old mother of a
family Of laboring people. His grand
mother is "a, his great grandmother
81, and his great great grandmother 50.
All are well.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild's
colony in Palestine shows such great
promise of success that he has pur-
chased more land. In accordance with
the Baron's request, the colonists have
all abandoned the use of Yiddish, and
now speak nothing but Hebrew.
There are 10 women lawyers in the
United States, and eight of this number
have earned the right to practice before
the Supreme Court. To acquire this
it is necessary to have practiced for
three years at the bar, without flaw in
that career.
| Empress Elizabeth Of Austria lately
built, at an enormous cost, magnificent
marble villa at Corfu and christened it
"L 'AChileion.' Her majesty has
made the following codicil to her will
81 wish to be inferred at Corfu, near
the river, so that the waves can con-
tinuaIly break on my tomb"
The largest family is that of the
King of Siam. He has two official
wives, 88 of the second class, and u
children. He has SO brothers and
sisters and 226 uncles and aunts. They
all board with the King, SO that there
are more than 200 cooks in the royal
kitchen.
The Prefecture of Police has estab-
ished Service of Identity, in order to
IDENTIFY released convicts. Since 1903
there have been 1900 sentences re-
corded against men named Louis
Lefevre, by which innumerable inno-
cent Louis Lefevres have been brought
into trouble,
| Another Of Queen Vlctora's oldest
servants has just died. This time it is
Mr.. w, H. Cover, who was "yeoman
of the silver pantry" at Windsor Castle.
Yeoman Cover had been in the
lQueen's service for over half century
and was much esteemed by his mis-
tress.
| 1t is to be feared that the Infanta
has been spoiled by her taste of this
land of the free, for she is reported as
having little lark in London. She
has been living "incog" in a furnished
house, riding in the park on a hired
horse and shopping on foot Her two
small boys, Princes Louis and Alfonso,
have been with her.
Every year since Victor Hugo died,
eight years ago, fresh volume of his
poems has appeared, so that it has be-
come rather standing joke. There
will be, in all probability, similar vol
umes for years to come. Victor Hugo
wrote an enormous lot of poetry which
he never published; but it was pre-
served, and now his heirs are putting it
out little by little.
. The German Government has az.
, ranged for competition among Ger
S man builders for the construction of
series of torpedo boats with a minimum
speed Of twentyfour knots. An inn
portant object of the competition is TO
determine the value of the tube boilers
used by Thorneycrott.
The Shakespeare Reading Society is
going to experiment with a Shake
spearean play under the conditions it
was written for, "Measure for Meas.
ure" will be acted on a stage built after
the model of the sixteenth century.
There will be no scenery. The cos
tunes will be these of the day, and
, groups Of spectators will flank the stage.