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Show THE CATiiOLIC PEEiS. For the purpose ol showing the pro-, pro-, portionate representation of the dis tinctive Catholic opinions in the ' periodical preBa, an industrious book seller of Wurzburg has collected statistics of the newspapers of the I different countries of the world. From hub lis; it appsars that Europe has 13.DG0 newspapers and periodicals, of which only about one in fourteen, or 9S7, are Catholic in tendency. Belgium Bel-gium shows the lurgost proportion 15-i out of 2u0. Great Britain, a Froteatftut country, has forty-two Catholic journals the same number that is credited to France, a Catholic country; but in Britain it is 42 out of 2,500, and in France, 42 out of 2,000. According to the bookeelier's statement, all the Catholic papers in Paris can only claim 6,000 aubjeribers between them, while the Univers iB ; said to sell only 7,000 copies in the . whole of Franco. Germany exhibits I Iho largest issue ot newspapers, of which 1 in 14 is Catholic. Austria, with a third of the total issue of 1 Germany, shows 1 in 13. Here again the difference between the Protestant and the Catholic enipirn is very slight. Italy has 1 to 7; Spain only 1 to 8. Turning to North America, we find a total of 8,500, somewhat more than B.itain, France nud Germany together, of which 113 arc C..t:io!ic; while tho great Catholic cuutineut of South America shows out of 1,000 only 11 newspapers -presemiug it dominaut religion. Neithfr Africa nor Austria has a smglo Catholic periodical, whilj Asia has 1 cut of 375. |