Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-10
I,rmIninr Nntcs.


The Austrian Empress Elizabeth amused
herself while In Naples recently by buying
M the entire stock Of a toy store ana as
tributing 1t among a crowd OF delighted
children.
The empress Of Austria's villa at Corfu,
which was built six years ago, and which
cost more than s2,5OO. 600. is to be sold. The
empress has not spent six months In Corfu
since the villa was finished. but declares her
self to be tired Of the place.
Frau Dr.. Jur Emile Kempin, who began
to practice law in Berlin about six months
ago. is doing an excellent business, and has
lately been appointed official Interpreter at
the Berlin law courts. Though she is Ger
man by birth, she studied in New York
City.
Miss Evelyn Willard. the young English
actress who is now playing the Princess
Flavia so successfully In The Prisoner OF
Zenda," at st. james theater. London, h
engaged to be married to Anthony Hope, the
author of that captivating romance.
Gardening is one Of the favorite pursuits
Of Miss Helen Gould. She has carried her
knowledge of flowers to such an extent that
she is a thoroughly capable manager OF a
greenhouse and could display as much
proficiency In this line as in the practice or
law.
Needlework is not a lost art, even among
the fashionable women Of New York. Mrs.
John Jacob Aston has been discovered to be
an expert with the needle. and clever also
Mt cutting and fitting a gown. Mrs. Elisha
Dyer, jr., is equally skilled in designing
artistic gowns.
Patti is quoted as saying that only Christine
Nilsson and she are left of "the old school
Of cantatrices. Singers are now turned out
in dozens, she remarks, like oysters on the
half-shell; have too much straining and
anxiety for a quickly-made voice, and then
after a transient CLEAN of glory. lose IT all.
The personality of Miss Rhoda Broughton
is but little known to the readers of her
novels. She has a very retiring disposition
and lives quietly at Richmond with her
widowed sister and her family. Miss
Broughton is a large woman, with a keen.
pleasant face and gray hair worn pompadour
fashion.
Queen Victoria is the heroine of an excit-
ing drama now being acted in the leading
Siamese theaters. In this she is about to be
married in Ceylon, her capital. to the king
of Siam, when that outspoken monarch
breaks off the match, and In revenge the
queen invades the country. She Is repulsed
with great loss, in spite of a hand-to-hand
combat between the duke OF Cambridge,
armed with a battle-aN. and three Siamese
fairies, and after an explanation of the mis-
understanding, marries the king OF Siam.
Miss Jennie Adams of Hull House fame
sailed the other day for a year abroad. MISS
Adams will go direct to Russia, where she
means to make certain interesting investi-
cations in the social and political afairs or
that country. In her absence Miss Star, who
has always been her co-worker at Hull
House, will assume all the responsibility or
the institution. Miss Star took a very active
interest in the recent cutters strike In Chi
cago. She attended all the striker meet
ings, and when one of the leaders found IT
impossible to obtain employment in the
Windy City she secured for him a half-rate
ticket to New York, paying the price out OF
her own pocket.
Two American women have received the
degree Of doctor of philosophy from Ger
man universities. At Heidelberg 1t is Miss
Georgiana Lee Morrell who 10 thus honored.
She is a graduate of Vassar. she
was the first woman to be ad-
mitted to the lectures in English at the
University of Berlin, and won her degree at
Heidelberg by translating a poem from the
Auchinleck manuscript in Edinburgh from
Middle English into German and editing 1t.
The other girl, Miss Alice Luce. is the fourth
woman upon whom Gottingen has bestowed
a Doctors degree. She was graduated at
Wellesley, and then took two years OF
pathological study at Leipsic, and a term at
Gottingen.