The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-16
MUNICIPALITIES

ne luke OF Edinburgh, IL Is unuSI-
stood, is among the heaviest suhere RS
in England by the bank suspensions in
Australia. AS the Duke is a very
wealthy man, he will not be embar-
rassed by the misfortune.
Captain Harry Bartlett, who com
mands Lieutenant Peary's Arctic ex-
plorng ship is only twenty-nine years
of age, but he has been fifteen years at
sea and rates high as a navigator. He
is the youngest of four brothers, all OF
whom are captains
Mr.. Won Mumm, formerly of the
German Legation at Washington, but
since transferred to Bucharest and then
to Rome, is a Jealous amateur photo
grapher. Among the pictures carried
away by him as mementos of his
Washington sojourn was a collection OF
portraits of nearly every girl prominent
in Washington society for the last half
dozen years.
Henry McCalmont, the owner Of
IsinglaSs, winner of the Derby, has just
entered his thirty-third year. At Eton
he was a successful athlete, playing on
the football team and rowing on the
eight He inherited fortune of twenty
millions Of dollars from his great
somewhat unexpectedly, into the full
possession of which, however, he did
not come until his last birthday.
Mr. Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian
author, the fame of whose writings is
due largely to his novel "Hunger," is
about to take situation in Paris
cafe as waiter Being poor, it is the
only way open for him 10 get knowl-
edge of the French capital and of the
French language. In the same way he
learned English, having come to Amer
lea and become waiter in a Boston
hotel
1t will be remembered that when
Booth was playing Richard" in Chicago
IN 1879, mentally unbalanced spec
tator named Gray shot at the actor
twice from the gallery. One of the
bullets Mr.. Booth secured and had it
set in gold cartridge, upon which he
had engraved the words: From Mark
Gray to Edwin Booth, April 20, 1879"
This grim reminder he always pre-
served.
1t is announced from Spain that
Emilio CASTELAR,, the eminent republican
leader, has retired permanently from
public life with the declaration that
while he shall always be a republican,
he does not intend to act against the
monarchy; for he has come to believe
that under present conditions no other
form of government is better adapted
to the needs of Spain. So he advises
his friends to act with the Liberal party
in the future and support the crown
81 know nothing of Mr.. Parnell. /
never saw him." So said Lord Sails
bury in his speech at Derry recently.
1t is rather curious confession that
the leader of great English party
should have contrived to get through
the years between 1880 and 1890 with
out ever seeing so conspicuous poll.
tician as Mr. Parnell, or even getting
to know something about him. Mr.
Gladstone-so far as his strength and
time permit-goes everywhere, sees
everything, and knows everybody con-
nected with his party, Lord Salisbury
shuns political clubs, and has a re-
markably small circle of acquaintance
among the men of his own party
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, the man of
the hour in musical circles, is thirty
five years old He is quite unspoied
by his meteoriC fame, and is frank and
genial in manner. Dressed as he was
while in London, in pepper and salt
clothes, brown soft hat, and tan shoes,
he might have passed, except for his
Italian complexion, for well-to.d do
young business man. He composed
his 81 Psgliocci" to earn his daily
bread, after spending much time and
labor on an ambitious "epic poem in
music"-a trilogy having for its subject
the fortunes of the house Of Medici.
Now that he is famous this early work,
on which he toiled for six years, will be
given to the public in the fall. 81
Pagliocci," on which his fame substanti-