The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

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fisher folk, they are glad to pose all
day for twenty cents.
Giverny in Normandy is another
favorite camping ground, and Point
Aven, Morlaix, Concarneau and other
secluded parts of Brittany each has
it's little contingent.
SPREADS NEW WORLD CULT.
PARIS, June 24.-Among the large
number of Americans who passed
through Paris on their way to Lon
don this week, a striking figure was
that of Sydney Sprague, one of the
most prominent disciples of Bahaism,
the new Persian world religion" Mr..
Sprague has now been living in Per
STA for many years, and has devoted
his life to the study and spreading of
the doctrine of the Bahai
The adherents of the new faith can
now be counted by the hundred thou
sand in Persia, and the rapid increase
of their numbers attracted so much
attention at one time that the Turkish
Government found it polite to i'm
prison their spiritual head, the Ba-
hal, then in the Ottoman dominions.
Mr.. Sprague has strengthened his
connection with the country and re-
ligion of his adoption by his marriage
with a Persian woman of high rank,
who is a niece of the Bahai and also
Ia descendant of Mohammed. Such
marriage is said to be almost unique.
Mrs. Sprague decided to adopt West
ern customs, though she remains al
ways yelled. She is extremely cult
waited, speaking four languages flu
emily.
GENUINE MURILLO is FOUND.
! LONDON, June PA Swansea
connoisseur of paintings has just
purchased in an auction room for a
few pounds a picture that is believed
to be a genuine Murillo worth large
fortune. The painting is a life-size of
! ST. Sebastian, and is believed to be
as fine a specimen of the great Span
ish artists work as the Immaculate
Conception, now in the Louvre, which
was bought for $123,OOO by the French
| government in 1852
The purchaser, with his wife, hap
pened one day to stroll into the auc-
ton rooms of Messrs e. Leeder &
Sons, in Swansea. He recognized the
picture at once as a Murillo. When
it was put up for sale there was no
bid. After making a note of the fact
that there were no dealers present he
left, but returned next day and bought
the picture privately.
The buyer is very confident that his
discovery is genuine. He has had an
expert from London to examine the
picture, and he also has pronounced
it genuine. The value is estimated al
= $4,000.
VIENNA BEING MoDERNIzED.
VIENNA, June 24.-Probably in ne
other capital in Europe is there SC
much building going on at the pres
ent time as in Vienna Large houses
!. many of them of considerable an
tiquity, are being pulled down anc
= replaced with handsome structure,
e with imposing facades and equippe,
n with all modern improvements. Their,
e is scarcely street in the older part
n of the city where there is not SOM
: building work being carried out.
+ Vienna is being modernizeda at
+ rapid rate, but at the same time in
5 conservative way. The city authori
/ ties are very strict in the enforce
/ ment of the building regulations
d they insist upon a uniformity of ele
L walton being maintained, and refus
e to entertain for single moment any
= thing like the American "sky
$ scrapers."
S Unfortunately, all these buildin
d improvements threaten to destroy
o gradually, it may be, some of the mos
n attractive bits of "old Vienna" His
y torical monuments of the seventeenth
t century palaces and comfortable lool
e ing burghers' houses, with beautiful
n carved stone entrances and quaint oil
d courts with fountains in the rear, ar