Show A wholesale manufactory of swi swiss 33 stam tramps pa of old issues has hits just been discovered in zurich the forgers b have xvi conj gone ibo about u i their work kork very thoroughly they have hav e collect ed scraps of old letters being F postmarked oot s with various dates from t 1813 to ia 1860 60 an and the better tes u deceive cei ve th the edun y have stuck the ps on to tl these iese pieces obren of envelope TUB deai is the t title afa of I 1 a work I 1 by rev samuel W dike bike which funk Wagn alln are boon soon to issue mr air dike is is regarded as he first authority in this country in matters relating to the fanci ly and chii ihy work is i the result of years 0 of 4 ift investigation veit ig ifon oneff one of its most valuable fetui features 3 will wai be if its tables of statistics compiled with enuch much care from the most authentic sources Is ix tiie munich AUge melne ati tuny prof von do ces the views of tha of cholera he values koch highly as a bacteriologist luf directly disputes the ions he dawe from his ilia tiong 1 I will with pleasure be he eaid said swallow wallow a babii bacilli illi cultivated by koch kiich himself provided there is prea 1 e ent ni t no 0 tim temporal or r local dai disposition cioll toward cholera THE journal give gives some of the vital statistics i in vl france irace for the year ear 1883 tie y number n u m bir of births hag bus progressively increased from in 1880 to in 1883 a gratifying fat fact thou though g h it is somewhat clouded by the increase being entirely du due to 0 the birth of a greater nut fiber of illegitimate children the excess of births over deaths is given at 0 n r ak in manyin found inthe tile rich departments such as orne euro eure Sei neet et bite etc in the industrial departments and those in which aich small agrical are common th the excess of births over deaths la is much mui more strongly marked 1 1 1 no OHE ONE who car carea es for literary matters mill will tail fail to be interested in the announcement that wm cleaver ve r willan wilkenson so n laa written aten a very y acy critique of mr edwin ar nold nt ld a light ofaria of asia which is now sei ng it iiii ti way through the press of funk A the critique w duct will 1 appear in the standard library under the title edwin A arnold as Po etzer and arid as pagan ixer will be divided into two parts the first dealing with the tile literary I 1 in dent e A 4 I 1 il the e second with the tile historic merit of air mr Ay arnold poem taken with the fact that a new edition of the light of asia has lately latey been announced by another f firm irm the indication is th hat al the ais 0 I 1 i it aussien is ie to be renewed aver prince siddartha arid hia work as depicted arnold ane 4 LONDON publishers circular lately gate afe details of one weeks factual actual matter couta contained ined in maven morning papera pipers of leading ding articles the daily T telegraph ele graph gave gava dot 30 columns nt ne the tunes 30 cal dumns the daily Chr chronicle onide 27 4 aner standard 25 ibe the daily ew 1 t dihe mommy pot pa 21 andice and the Jl orning advertiser Advert iier col columns ni in other original articles the tele tek graph again takes the lead with 30 columns but the chron icle idi only shows four col dumns in the parliamentary capor laports is ifs the times gave 77 columns and ind the ahe telegraph Tek graph 22 in iti foreign news dw a the times gave give 27 col columns 3 ald the other dailies ran it close in inlaw law jand and police the morning advertiser gave 33 the times the telegraph Tek graph 91 the standard 8 and find A w ai 7 columns in sporting new newit tha the advertiser again h heads ea ds the lift with 32 columns while the times gave only 12 i col of general news the chron efe ck gave the times 66 post advertiser 53 daily news 49 1 standard 45 and ana the telegraph columns and in the paying department part pirt ment of advertisements the times am gave telegraph Tote graph 01 1 Man standard dard 1411 daily news 1381 chronicle Chiv nide pott ost 81 and ad 60 columns 1 |