The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-12-30
LATE FOREIGN MICEIIAEY.

O1totoaNAuS - tSSAfvoofusN.
Wendell Phillips has been invited to visit
England as the guest ofthe organized cooperative
societies of this country at their seventh general
congress to be held in London next year.
The Radical Club of Boston is reported de-
funct. The causes assigned are the too great
proportion of ministers and preachers, giving too
much Of Theological twist to the discussions.
and their purely speculative character. The talk
was brilliant, but the frOsling was better than the
cake.
The Postmaster General has determined to
dismiss from his Department OIL employees where
more than one member Of family holds place.
This will result in the dismissal Of large number
Of clerks.
The fathers of San francisco have formed a
combination to double the price Of lathiug the
Palace Hotel which has resulted in the proprie-
tors employing large number of boys. who. uu-
der competent foreman, are doing this work.
TIE SEA Notes.-The sea mouse is one of the
prettiest creatures that live under the water.
1t sparkles ike diamond and is radiant. with all
tue COlOfs VI Tue iaiuDONs - hFco ~ %-N
bottom of the ocean. 1t should not have been
called mouse, for it is larger than big rat. 1t
is covered with scales that move up and down as
it breathes and gIitters like gold shining through
iocky down, from which fine silky bristles wave
that constantly change from brilliant tint into
another, so that as Cuyier, the great naturalist,
says, the pIumage Of the humming bird is no more
beautiful. Sea mice are sometimes thrown up on
the beach by storms.
A MORTIFIED BR1DE-A Brooklyn bride'shair
fell down and fell of during the ceremony in
church the other evening. There was an instant's
pause but nobody was brave enough to stoop
down and pick up the mass Of blonde stuff and
hair pins The bride left the church leaning
heavily on her husbands arm. Her face was very
red, and sprout Of hair POSSIBLY eleven hairs
in ally stuck out at the back OF her head, tied
with bit Of shoe-string. Aud now her pa is
mean enough to refuse to pay the poor hair
dressers bill.
European
The sisters of the Tich5orne claimant have pc
titioned the Queen for his release.
The great painting of ST. Anthony, by Murillo,
has been stolen from the cathedral at Seville,
Spain.
Over l.l0O students Of the University Of Ed
inburgh have ecided to elect the Earl of Derby
to the Lord Rectorshp.
The native in custody supposed to be Nena
Sahib, has been delivered to CawupOre for further
examination as to his identity.
Lecher, chief editor of the Vienna Press, has
been examined about the publication in that pa
per Of Won Arnim's dispatches. He refused to
state from whom the dispatches were obtained
The DANISH Ministry have requested the Rigs
raad not to interfere with the Government re-
specting the expulsion of Danish subjects from
Schleswig while the matter is under discussion
with Germany.
Advices from Gold Coast state that great
gathering of native chiefs was held at Cape Coast
Castle on the 2sth of October to clearly express
their views on the slavery and other questions.
PURcHAsEo OF THE MouNr OF OLIvEs-"While in
JernsalOm," writes lady traveller, '-we paid our
respects to the Princess de Ia Tour d'Auvergne,
who resides there, and who has purchased the
Mount of Olives for the Catholics, for 100000,
ceding it to the French Government. For seven
centuries it was lost to the Catholics ever since
the Crusaders were driven out of Jerusalem.
She is now erecting convent on the very spot
we're Christ prayed. The prayer is inscribed in
thirty-two different languages around the inclos-
ure of the court yard. The Countess is very
agreeable, rather past fifty. She lives IN an old
Oriental cottage and her sole companions are her
tortoise-shell cat Marmaduke and her brown dog
Honey. She speaks English very well. She
will remain until her work is done, which has
already been in progress seven years.
MAxMs " RoTHsCHILD- will Of the late
Baron R lschild consisted of twenty-five arti-
Giles, of which paragraph twenty, remarkable for
its beautiful lessons of fal obedience and brother
ly love, is as follows :" exhort all my beloved
children always to live in harmony; never to
loosen the family bonds to avoid evil differences,
dissension and itigations to use forbearance to-
ward each other and not to allow temper to get
the better of them, and to be friendly in their
disposition. My children possess q good exam
pie in their excellent grandparent Friendliness
was also the sure condition to the happiness and
success of the whole RothschiId family. May my
children now and never lose sight of this family
tradition, and may they follow the exhortation of
my late father, their grandfather, contained in pa
ragraph fifteen of his last will, always to remain
true aud faithful, aud without changing, to the
Maternal faith of Israel"