| Show exhibition of postage stamps an au exhibition of stamps by a society in vienna has brought out some curious information relative to its branch of postal affairs some of the collections exhibited were of considerable historical interest and value notably that of dr I kan ian an collected during the franco france prussian Prussia ii war it contained the stamps arid and tho the envelopes of the german and french field post offices and of the field post office of tho the swiss corps of observation a postage stamp from Als alsace issued ey by the north german bund aug I ISTO 1870 j balloon letters from paris and metz the photographically reduced letters from the pigeon post stamps staup issued under GL gambetta s dictatorship ship and others by private firms who managed the postal communication muni cation during luring the commune he exhibited the first BL stamps blimps imps of the german empire and of the french republic and one which bears the head of the count de do chambord issued by the in 1870 in anticipation of a bourbon castor aaion among the portraits of postal reformers N which grace race the walls of the tile exhibition were those of sir rowland hill and the duchess de longueville this heroine of the arondo introduced envelopes in 1635 for letters carried b by v the paris city post envelopes with an impressed stamp were used first in sardinia in 1819 the spanish stamps reflect in the heads of isabella amadeo don carlo carlos and alfonso the dynastic changes that have taken ej place A collection of spanish stamps from 1850 to 1853 is valued at the austrian stamps including C ludina those for holstein under the austrian occupation and for bosnia besnia amount to 2262 specimens caimens there are postal call cards abelon belonging to tile general postal union n and a good collection of forged stamps was shown expressly for the benefit of collectors the verdict of the visitors was that our stamp with the head of washington was alie most beautiful one in the echi atten in connection with this exhibition some figures of the operations of the general postal union mav may be interesting jt A extends to twin states and to the british Britis li I french ir enca and dutch colonies it forwarded f I d in the year letters and cards the total may bo be divided into for europe for Ai america for foi asia II for africa alrica and for australia including newspapers printed matterand matt crand samples the tile postal union forwarded packages of which belonged to europe of the various european nations the tile english write the most letters the figures for 1879 arc for E england riland ri land and for Ger germany mally but the econome economical M I vy V y asi 1171 sr f germans sent postal cards while the english used oni only y it is reckoned boned that in in the tile whole world the daily rl requirements quire ments aro letters and cards giving every inhabitant of the globe a yearly average of 31 written comm communications nie actions the h e annual average of european countries for each inhabitant is england 30 36 switzerland 25 german germany 18 holland 17 belgium 15 I france ra nce 15 denmark 13 austria 11 in E england there is a postoffice post office fo for r every 2463 inhabitants in germany for every in austria far every and in france for every Switzer switzerland laud possesses the most post offices in proportion |
