year
of its publication. There are some dear, good souls who have forgotten
that it requires money to run the publication. They surely would not
like to hear that we were unable to pay the printer, bookbinder, clerks,
paper-maker, etc. Without their aid we cannot fulfil our obligations to
those we employ. This notice has reference only to those who owe us for
one, and many for two, years. Let not the sun go down, after reading
this notice, without paying what you owe us.

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COLLEGE IN HOLLAND.--There lately arrived in Rome Rev. Andrew Jansen,
Rector of the College of Steil, in Holland. This College is German,
established in Holland to avoid the Kulturkampf persecutions. It is in a
most flourishing condition, having at present 130 students preparing
themselves for the foreign missions. Father Jansen is accompanied by the
renowned missionary Anser. Two years ago, the latter was in the Province
of Chang-tong, China, and one day, travelling alone, he was surprised by
a band of ferocious idolaters, taken and stripped, and tied by the arms
to a tree. They then beat him most unmercifully with rods, broke one arm
and one leg, and left him bleeding, and, as they thought, dying. Some
Chinese, passing by shortly afterwards, found him still alive; took him
to a neighboring hut, and by assiduous care, skill, and nursing, healed
him.

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ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC.--The Angel Guardian Annual, in a new garb, is
announced. The friends of this admirable Institution, will find this
year's issue particularly interesting. It contains 16 additional pages
and has several splendid illustrations. No Catholic family in the city
should be without it. It costs only 10 cents. Look at the announcement
and order at once. Orders filled by Brother Joseph, Treasurer House of
Angel Guardian, 85 Vernon Street, or by Messrs. T. B. Noonan & Co.,
Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.

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THE Encyclical we have used is _The London Tablet's_ translation.

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THE _Catholic Citizen_, Milwaukee, Wis., has entered upon its sixteenth
year. We are pleased to see it is well sustained, as it deserves to be
long up to the _Citizen_.

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THE Forty-Ninth Congress of the United States, assembled at Washington
on the 7th of December.

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