The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-18
EASTERN NEWS.


tired of the rest cure and has hat
a private wire installed in his home
in order to keep in touch with impor
tant affairs.
Charles w. Eliot, president emer
titus of Harvard University, is to &C
abroad He will make the trip around
the world, SPENDING a large part oil
his time in Japan, China and India.
Vincent Astor, son of John jacob
Astor, has entered Harvard with
twenty suits, ten pairs of, shoes
$4,000 a year for pocket money-oh
yes, and a students small note book
or a small students note book
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is
back from his first tour. of Europe
He was so glad to see his own coun-
try again that he felt like kissing
the lips of the Statue of Liberty"
Booth Harrington, the novelist, and
his wife have separated owing to the
continual clash of a domestic with
| a nomadic temperament
The will of John A. Singer, son of
the Millionaire machine maker, will
be contested bv his second wife and
| her children. The bulk of the estatE
was bequeathed to his housekeeper.
The ancestry of Rockefeller has
been traced to early kings of England,
Scotland, France and Spain, and the
pedigree verified by the College of
Heraldg, London.
ct is not impossible, but highly i'm
probable, for a Japanese to become a
Christian" said a st. Louis woman
who has returned from five years
study of Japan. She says the aver
age Japanese takes up religion sim.
ply as an opportunity or cloak to
learn the English language.
A tea room has been established in
Boston which caters especially TO
society women who smoke. It is
handsomely furnished like a club and
is place for women to gather after
moons for a pleasant chat and smoke.
"The Last Will and Testament of
George Washington of Mt. Vernon"
is the title of a public document Just
issued by authority of the Senate.
Radical changes in the construc-
ton of our new battieships are being
urged by naval officials as the result
Of recent target practice tests. Most
of the large vessels will only have
one mast.
The present census shows that
over 2O,OOO,OOO pupils are registered
in the schools of the United States.
The common schools have 100000.
The Hartman and Morgan inter
ests are rivals in preparing for the
opening of the Panama canal PaIa-
tial express steamers will be run be-
tween Europe the Atlantic coast and
the ports of the Pacific coast.
President Bush of the Missouri
Pacific has stated that, owing to poor
fences along the line, the railroad has
paid damages for 10000 cattle, which
it might have hauled as freight. if
killed in the ordinary way. The
fences are being repaired.
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio
will be in San Francisco next month
to select worlds fair site for the
Ohio state building, and incidentally
to let his presidential" bee buzz
around the Golden Gate.
Under an equal division of the
money in circulation in the United
States each citizen would be entitled
to S3495.
The river section of Wisconsin
was flooded from bursting dams.
Many received warning of the ap-
preaching torrents through a plucky
telephone operator.
The bankruptcy proceedings of a
fashionable hat maker of New York
pvealed ], P. Morgan as the financial
hacker of the establishment.
ihC luiiS VI Lue udIn at Black
River Falls, Wisconsin, have been
dynamited in the hope of DETECTING
the river back into its old channel
A middle-aged man, disappointed in
love, jumped from a siXty-story New,
York window into the midst of an
outdoor religious meeting. The spec.
tators held a prayer service over the
body.
The New York Legislature has ad-
journed after a record-breaking ses-
sion.
The English system of management
has been imported by Secretary Meyer
for use in the navy yards. He claims
that this system will eliminate waste
at the navy department.
A memorial tablet in honor of
Washington has been unveiled on an
old colonial church at Falls Cburcl,