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We advise the lovers of pure teas to visit the
popular store of Messrs. Hogan & Co., No 637 Nasa
zine street, and purchase of the finest flavor a
prices within the reach of any housekeeper These gen
tlemen are is doing thriving trade and deserve IT, Us
they always give good honest value the money they
receive. They have just received fresh stock via the
Suez Canal and all who call may be sure Of receiving
the best goods, with polite and fair dealing.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12
RATES OF THE "sTAR."

Sertion.
Cuts inserted at special rates.
Death and Marriage Notices, 81 each insertion, 4.
wants and Personal Information Advertsemsn%
20 oente per line each insertion,
Editorial Notices, 80 cents line
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p. X. for Is cents at $50 Magazine street,
whore dne assortment OF spring goods also be
found. Levy Bros. always sell cheap for cash.
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Article ZIG enacts, s'that any ciergymen
who abuses in any way his ministerial and
spiritual functions SO as to disturb the pub
lie conscience, or the peace of families,
shall be punishable with imprisonment
varying from four months to two years,
and with fine not exceeding 1000 lire"
he2lIth article nenaces with three months
Incarceration and 1000 lire of fine, any
clergyman who by discourses or writings
outrages the Institutions, or laws, of the
State, or royal decrees or any other act of
authority. If he provoke to disobedience,
he incurs fine of 1000 lire with two years
confinement. Ii his ad vice be followed by
an act OF disobedience, even though he
himself be hot privy to that disobedience,
he is liable to imprisonment for two years
and a fine of 5000 lire.'' Article els visits
with three months imprisonment and
fine of 1000 lire the clergyman who shall
exercise any act of external worship in
defiance OF the prohibition of the Govern
ment.' These enactments are sufficient to
prevent any priest from saying Mass or
singing the Rosary, unless with the con
sent of the Crown. The Prefect-not the
Bishop,becomes the framer of the Calen-
dar, aud the police, or Questura, is the ar
bitter of sacred rites. This is the promised
liberty of worship, the realization of the
Cavour theory of Free Church in a Free
State.
The rector and students of the Colegio
Pho Latino Americana had audience of the
Pope on Monday, the 26th of March. The
rector, DIR. Santinelli introduced deputa-
tion of students belonging to the Apos-
tolc-Vicariate of Montevideo, who brought
an offeripgssom the faithful in that Re
public. His Holiness listened to the reci-
tation of some verses composed for the oc-
casion, and made suitable comments on the
address presented to him.-London Tablet.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
A Rich Beggar Dismantled.

YESTERDAY an old man, poorly dressed,
limping as if very lame, and wearing
green glasses, entered saloon on the
River road and asked for money, saying
that he lived at a certain number on
Seventh street, and that his wife was
very i'll and he too old and lame to work.
In the saloon was man living at the
very number given on Seventh street, and
he branded the old man as a liar. The
beggar then said it was Seventeenth
street, but he was SO confused that the
half-dozen men present determined to
see how he was made up. He shouted
"police" as they approached him, but the
men locked the door and threw him down.
The green glasses covered as good pair
of eyes as were in the room, and no
cause for his limping could be found
He had his left hand tied up, but they
jerked the rags off and found no hurt or
wound. Lastly, they fished out of his
pockets $30.45 in small money, as he had
begged it, and discovered that he had a
handbook on a Chicago savings bank
with $3.50 so credited to him. He made
a great fuss as they went on to expose
him, and finally promised that he would
leave Detroit by the Pacific express and
never come here again. He claimed to
have begged most of the money in
Toledo. One of the men accompanied
the old knave to the Central depot and
remained there until he saw him move
away on the train.-DetroSt Free Press.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
Teaching a Stove to Talk Chinese.

THE Pail MoU Gazette tells story,
apropos of the appointment of M. DE
Saint Denys to the post of Sorbone Pro-
fessor of Chinese, of what happened to
his predecessor in that learned chair
Mr.. Stanislas Julien. When M. Julien
was nominated to the post, his lectures
were given on Thursday and Saturday of
each week, but for the first month his
audiences consisted solely of the stove,
which could scarcely be expected to de-
rive much benefit from lecture ON Ian
guage. One day, greatly to his surprise,
large party of fashionably-dres
ladies and gentlemen put in an appear
ance, and M. julien, out of gallantry to-
ward the former, began his lecture by
translating sonnet by the Chinese poet
Lio-Tsing in which woman is compared
to the lotus of the Yellow River" The
audience appeared to follow the lecturer
with deep interest, and nj. Julien began
to think that his office would be no sine
cure. There was large attendance the
following week, and among the company
the lecturer noticed one gentleman who
had been present on the previous occa-
sion, and whom he set down as an en-
thusiastic admirer of the Chinese Ian
guage. This gentleman continued to at
tend whole course of the lectures, ac-
companied on each occasion by fresh
party, and it was only six months after
ward that NJ julien discovered that he
was guide who showed foreigners the
sights of Paris, one of the most remarka-
BILE of which he considered to be pro-
lessor teaching stove to talk Chinese.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10

died in the midst of flames. A village of
more than 400 Christians was attacked
by the literates and soon became prey
to the flames. Among these 400 Chris
tians there were 100, more or less, who
succeeded in saving themselves by TAX
ing refuge in a village near by. The re-
mainder-about 200-were all massacred.
Two small villages of Christians stu
ated two hours walk from the place at
which / then was were hemmed in by
the pagans. The Mayor visited each
house numbered. the Christians and for
babe them, under the threat of some Sc
we're punishment, to go out of doors. A
few of the Christian women attempted
to go to the market to keep themselves
from starving They never returned.
Some pagan women that went with them
say that the Christian women were cap
tured and beheaded. Two men from one
of these same villages hazarded flight
during the night; they crossed the great
river by swimming, and came to me to
tell their misfortunes. "Alas !" writes
Archbishop Gauthier, from whose letter
this information is chiefly derived, /
could do nothing but weep with them,
being unable to do anything to succor
them. Two or three days afterward |
learned tina tall the men in that village
had had thei heads cut off, but the
women and children were spared. And
as their houses were intermingled with
those of the pagans it was forbidden to
burn them down
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Sponge Cake Pudding.-Butter a
mold well and ornament it with dried
cherries or sultanas, then three parts fill
it with sponge cake, and fill up with
custard. Four sponge cakes, half pint
of milk and two or three eggs, sweetened
with loaf sugar, make nice small pud.
ding. Boil or steam it for half an hour
and serve with sweet sauce.
Orange Roley- Poley.-Make a light
paste as for apple dumplings or valise
pudding, roll in an oblong sheet, and Law
oranges Sweet ones), peeled, sliced and
seeded, thickly all over it. Sprinkle with
white sugar; scatter teaspoonful or two
OF the grated yellow peel over all and
roll up closely, -olding down the end to
secure the syrup. Boil in a pudding
cloth one hour and half. Eat with
lemon sauce.
Ministers Pudding.-Three eggs, an
equal weight of sugar and butter, and
the weight of two eggs in flour. Melt
the. butter, and beat it to a cream: beat
the eggs we'll, mix them with the butter
and sugar, beating the whole to froth ;
then add the flour by degrees, and the
rind of a lemon chopped very finely
Beat it all together, and pour into a
mold boil gently for an hour This
pudding requires as much beating as a
sponge cake. When properly made it is
delicious.
-Whitewood carvings are best mende(,
with isinglass or white glue. Walnut is
mended with the best dark glue, and
Clipped places filled with putty, which is
then stained to the proper depth with
raw linseed oil mixed with Vandyke
brown, burnt sienna or burnt lumber.
This takes weeks to dry, and the carving
should be protected from dust Where
veneers are broken and the pieces are
not at hand the edges must be sawed
smooth and new strip glued on, when
varnish and polish will hide the mis-
chief The loss of curl or two from
arabesque carving may be unnoticed if
the corresponding figure is cut off, the
ends rounded smoothly and repolished or
gilt as the case may be.-Hearth and
Home.
IDLE, water and fire proof at the same
time are in demand. Pure india-rubber
to be had of the dentists commonly, dis
solved in three times as much of the best
chlorofOrm, is simple and excellent foI
ouCh pun pOSCS DIS ON0TSuOCS
sticking upper and under soles of chill
dren's Shoes together when thew come
apart by wetting, for making shoes water
proof, etc. The rubber must he pure and
cut into fine shavings and left long time
closely corked in the chloroform, as it is
difficult to dissolve. When melted, one
third of the solution and two-thirds OF
the best glue, added while boiling, makes
good cement for harness. Another
recipe is two ounces of best Russian isin
glass boiled in pint of ale till dissolved
adding four ounces of the best common
glue. When melted slowly add one and
a half ounces of boiled linseed oil, stir
ring till all are mixed When cold it is
like india-rubber. Shave the leather a
little, brush the cement on while hot
and press the parts together with a
weight over night.-Hearth and Home
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
Driving: the Seal.

The seals are easily captured; their
captors, the natives, reminding one of
butchers as they go into stock-yard to
select and drive out batch of bullOcks,
for the method of procedure is precisely
similar
To the right and left of the breeding
grounds stretch sand-beaches or some
convenient landing, upon which the
Holluschickie" or the bachelor seals lie
by tens of thousands, extended in every
attitude assumed by them in fitful sleep
or animated sport, and down from the viii
lage to these hauling grounds" come the
natives, who, after making a survey of
the sWarming myriads, step in among
them and turn aside from the masses two
or three thousand of the most eligible
animals, usually males of not over four
years old and not under two. This drove
which they have selected is driven to the
village as flock of sheep would be, the
animals moving in succession of sud-
den starts, with frequent resting spells,
at the rate of about half mile an hour,
providing the weather is cool and foggy
and the ground hard. Seals can be
driven at the rate of mile an hour I'M
der peculiarly favorable conditions of
road and weather; but the loss of life is
great in large drove, SO many falling
senseless, gasping and palpitating, some
to rise again within a few hours and
others dying at once.
Only four or five men are required to
capture in this way drove of from one
to even fifty thousand, did they ever want
so many; and the labor of driving them
overland to the salt-houses near the viii
lage is light, as the seals move without
resistance and require but little urging,
only it should be constant and gentle.
They string themselves out in long files
as they travel, and drove of four or
five thousand will stretch over path
more than mile in length.-Henay W.
Elliott, IN Harper's Magazine.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
Mice and Mice-like People.

Quiet people seldom get justice done
them, except by their immediate friends.
1t is your noisy, rackety folk who secure
most of the worlds spontaneous acclama-
ton. The man who talks common-places
at the top of his voice, who is in the habit
of perpetrating preposterous jokes and
laughing consumedly at the same, and
who makes point of thrusting himself
into conversation whether he understands
the drift of the same or not, runs much
better chance of being dubbed a clever
fellow than does the individual who
rarely speaks unless he is thoroughly an
fdSt with his subject, and who is addicted
to advancing his opinions in hesitating,
timid fashion. Even when boisterous
people have been found to he shallow
impostors and to partake largely of the
character of the drum, which looks big
and is so extremely hollow, many per-
sons still feel sort of admiration for
them, and they receive more credit than
is their due. Their boldness, which, in
many instances, amounts to positive i'm
pudence, secures the half-admiration of
those who feel, and rightly, that it is use
less their attempting the same kind of
thing, and who are frequently completely
eclipsed when brought into contact with
a forward being of the kind under notice.
These are led to feel, moreover, that they
compare unfavorably with him in another
and, in the eyes of a sensitive being, a
more important aspect. He is addicted
to indulging in extravagant protestations
of friendship at moments notice; after
an acquaintance extending over half an
hour he will slap your back with consid-
cradle force-indeed, with more force
than is pleasant, looking at the matter
from physical point of view-and ram
his arm through yours with an amount
of energy which should speak volumes
for the warmth and sincerity of his
feelings toward you, and finally walk
off with you with an air of easy
proprietorship which ought to be very
ffattering to your vanity. e., Ii
you are at all liable to glory in the fact
that it is competent for you, more than
for the majority of your fellows, to make
a very favorable impression in short
space of time. Quiet people, on the
other hand, are slow in nanifesting
warmth of feeling, and you will not often
find them slapping comparative strangers
on the back, or linking arms with people
of whom they have not thorough knowl-
edge. Occasionally, of course, they may
do so, for the contagion of example is so
great that these passive beings are some
times led to initiate the ways of their
more dashing brethren. But, in the
event of their doing so, they invariably
only succeed in bringing down humiliation
upon themselves. There is hesitancy
about what they do which plainly indi-
Gates the effort they are making, and they
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
Cleaning the Cellar.

Now, we do not imagine that in the
whole country there is but one thorough.
ly renovated cellar, but thousands OF
them, if you busy people would only tell
us about them; so we may be pardoned
for abiding to the way ours is made suit
able for dairy purposes.
One day a neighbor caught us down
cellar, right in the midst of our cleaning
in part of the house which we have
come to regard as more essential to the
well being of the family than the parlor
and while we were giving the timbers
overhead and the nicely-painted walls a
good coat of whitewash she expressed
her surprise that anybody should be so
foolish
Don't you have enough withdrawing
to do upstairs? Is so much extra work
necessary"
We mildly answered Eyes" to the first
query, and emphatically Eyes" to the
last. for in lieu of cool room above
ground the cellar was to be our milk
room during the heat of summer, so no
unpleasant odor must linger to faint
cream or butter Our work was soon fin
ished. and the freshly milk racks
and tables were in place, when two conf
cal figures, mistress and maid, emerged
from The cellar, well pleased with their
half-day's work.
After tea our friend followed us down
the stairway, and rewarded US with the
following comment:
How cool and light it seems Why,
I should like to stay here and skim the
milk myself"
This approval from the skeptic of an
hour or two ago was quite encouraging,
and here is the programme from begin
ming to end: In the spring, just as soon
as the weather will permit, the windows
and outside cellar door are opened, and
all the decaying vegetables, as well as
empty barrels and bins, are carried out.
When it is warm enough to remove the
roots to some out-building the men folks
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
Do Not Neglect to Thin Out Young
Fruit.

YOU'VE trees should be allowed to bear
only few specimens as their growth
and healthy development will be of far
more value than the fruit 1t is ruinous
to young trees to mature full crop of
fruit This is one reason why we see SO
many stunted trees. 1t seems difficult
for many people to bring their decision
up to point which requires them to di-
minish the quantity of fruit upon their
trees. Sometimes they plead want of
time; but this is not admissible, for if
they have not time to attend to the
proper cultivation of fruit they should
abandon it altogether The real cause is
their greediness. You can't make them
believe that they are the gamers by de-
stroying a portion of the crop, saying
that nature is the best judge as to the
quantity of frui4 Such persons have no
practical knowledge of fruit raising, and
the sooner they give it up the better it
will be for them, their pockets and rep
utatiOn.
AS soon as pear and peach trees begin
to show their product, the thinning-out
process may be begun at almost any
time. 1t is true the operation can be
performed conveniently only upon such
trees as are not over large. But it
should be especially attended to in
young trees, which frequently overbear,
to the great injury of the health of the
trees as we'll as the quality of the
fruit. To obtain the finest speci-
mems of pears the specimens should not
be allowed to grow in clusters or in con-
tact with each other, and all that exhibit
the least imprerfection should be re-
moved. What is lost in number will be
doubly made up in size and flavor. This
should be remembered. Many persons
regard the thinning out of peaches, pears
and apples as so much loss. But they
are not judges of fruit and have no
knowledge of it's proper culture. They
want as large crop as possible, letting
the quality take care of itself, no matter
how much the tree is damaged and what
effect it may have on the following years
crop.
Our own practice is to pinch off hun
dreds of pears, apples, peaches and other
fruit, leaving only four to ten or twenty
on a tree, according to the size. After
a tree has been growing vigorously for
four or five seasons, it may be allowed to
produce small crop.-N. Y. Herald.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
L0custs in Algeria.

AN Algerian paper, says the London
Echo, gives an interesting account of a
struggle between the farmers of the
colony and one of the most tremendous
swarms of locusts that have ever de-
scended upon the plains of Algeria. AS
soon as the distant cloud of invaders
was perceived every effort was made by
the terrified agriculturists to prevent the
descent of the hungry myriads upon
their pastures, while on the other hand
the locusts were equally determined to
alight and take refreshment In order
to keep the insect host in the higher
strata of the atmosphere, where a change
of wind might at any moment carry
them away, the farmers lit fires with
damp weeds, and y.collecting all their
kitchen utensils, ringing all the bells, and
shouting at the top of their voices the.
produced such concert of h1deous
sounds that for time the locusts pre-
ferred famine to the din and remained
in the air; but at length hunger and
fatigue overpowered them, and they de-
cided on Drawing the worst and falling
to the ground, when the green fields and
trees suddenly turned yellow under the
multitudes which instantly covered them.
All through the night was heard one con-
tinuous and portentous sound-that of
myriads of invisible jaws engaged in
mastication-the next morning the battle
commenced, but the latest advices are of
discouraging nature, as they report
that the locusts are engaged not only IN
eating, but in laying eggs.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
The Massacre of Chinese Christians.

The French periodical, Missions Catto-
kQues gives an authentic and detailed
narrative of the recent massacre of Ro-
man Catholic native converts in China
The account, as translated for the Lon
don Tablet. relates that the massacre
broke out ON the Goth of February, when
the literates," as the prosecuting party
is called, opened the campaign by be-
heading two men in the service of Pere
Deare and Christian, whom they then
threw into the river. The same day they
burned the three villages of Trun-L Lam,
Nio-Vinh and Bau Tach, and massacred
the inhabitants that were in them. Those
who succeeded in escaping to the woods
were hunted down with hounds, brought
back, and killed on the following days.
The river was covered over with bodies
floating down it from the side of Lareg
At that time the murderers were massa-
cring the Christians of the parish
of Holven, and were burning their
villages. Those who took refuge in
the cliffs of the neighborhood were
hunted down and burnt alive. The
Grand Mandarin of Justice was at the
market of Sa-Nam with 800 soldiers, but
remained an inactive spectator of the
massacre of the Christians of Nam
Duong, only few of whom were able to
escape. The literates who were
the heads of the militia appointed to
massacre the Christians say that the
work of determination carried out under
the eyes of the Mandarins was concerted
between the court and the literates, and
was done in reprisal for recent events.
The Mandarins have just received orders
from the court not to employ any other
means save those of persuasion to stop
the murderers in their career. One of
the chiefs who had just caused two
Christians to be murdered on the high
road went on the parade before the Gov
ernor of the citadel, by whom he was
dismissed with honor. On his return
twenty women or children fell under the
swords of this man and his followers.
In several localities they take an en-
tire family-father, mother and children
bind them together with bamboos. and
then fling the bundle of living humanity
into the waves. First, however, they
take care to cut off the mans head. The
multitude of dead bodies thus fastened
together in groups of from eight to ten
blocks up the principal river, but to the
great surprise of everybody does not send
forth any bad smell. There are then
five parishes containing nearly 10000
Christians, which will have to be blotted
out of the .mission-namely, Lang
Thank Huyen, Nam Duong, Hoy-Yen,
and Doreg.Thank. Many 81 the victims