Evening star., 1934-12-23

Switzerland announces q series to
be brought out In January.
Greece will have two new airmail
values-3.30 and I0dr.
Australia will bring out O re-
engraved 1sh stamp, Tyre bird design,
rotary press.
Paraguay announces q new value of
the 1927 numeral series-50c. violet.
Brazil has four stamps to COM
memorate the founding Of the city of
Sac Paulo by Jose de Anchieta in
1884. The list is: 200r, yellow brown;
300r, purple; 7o0r, blue, and 1,o00r,
light green.
The Associated Press reports: "An-
nouncement that Great Britain would
have silver Jubilee issue in 1885,
marking the twenty-f1fth anniversary
Of the elevation Of King George to the
throne, will make the first time that
such q tribute has been paid to a
British ruler since 1887.
In that year special group OF
stamps came out on the occasion Of
the fifieth anniversary Of the reign Of
Queen Victoria. The issue continued
in use until 1902, when it was super
seded by a new set bearing the por-
/, trait of King Edward, incidentally the
first man to be pictured on a British
stamp.
"The Queen Victoria issue was fol-
lowed by jubilee stamps by some parts
of the British Empire, notable of which
is the Canadian group Of 1897 which
pictured the queen as she was In 1887
and 1897.
Great Britain never has been a
prolific printer Of commemorative.
Besides the Queen Victoria set only
two others have been issued-the
British Empire exhibition stamps in
1924 and the Postal Union Congress
set in 1929"
The plates for the o-Universi-
dad" stamps of Mexico have been
destroyed. A ceremony was held, and
prominent officials attended.
e. D. Herrick, Downers Grove, Ill,
announces a cachet for New Year
day.
The Twin City Stamp Society will
have its annual Observation-Disclosures
bourse, banquet and ball included-at
the Hotel Nlcolet, Minneapolis, jan
uary 10 to IL. A. B. Cassell is chair
man Of the committee in charge.
The Doubleday-Doran Co. has
opened stamp departments in its book
shops at Grand Central and Pennsyl-
vanis Stations, New York.
Al Burns, editor, Weekly Philatelic
Gossip, Holton, Kans., is the author
of Essentials of Stamp. Collecting" +"
a guide for the beginner The booklet
consists Of 80 pages of text and 125
| illustrations.
The United States Envelope So
ciety, Box "a, Brookline, Mass, has
issued a catalogue of penalty clause"
overprints Specialists in official
franks may have copies at so cents
each.
In the Telephone Almanac for 1894
the following interesting foot note to
the history of communication in
America may be found: "On Decem-
Der 2, 1884, about 1920 pm, rider
of Stockton & Stokes express left
Washington with copies of President
Jackson's annual message to Con-
gress for delivery in Baltimore, Phila-
delpnia and New York. The message
reached Baltimore, about 40 miles
away, at 2 pm Swift relays carried
it to Philadelphia by 8 pm. and to
New York by o'clock the next morn
ing. The 225 miles between WASH
| ington and New York had been COW
cred in 13 hours and 40 minutes. !"
France uses the overprint Coils
Postaux" to denote parcel post"
Charles F. Anderson, en- route to
Little America to straighten out the
tangle there, still is a Post Once De-
partment employe, but it is under
stood that the expenses of his trip
are being paid by the Byrd Expedi-
ton.
A reader insists that Ludwig Won
Holberg was Norwegian, not Dane
Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary
speaks Of him as 'the founder Of
the Danish theater and the first
Danish author who excelled in hu-
morous and satirical compositions" {:
the Encyclopedia Britannica calls
him "the founder of Danish literature
and the greatest of Danish authors;
and the Encyclopedias Americana de-
scribes him as "the greatest Of Danish
authors and the founder of its (sic)
literature" But all authorities agree
that he was born at Bergen, Norway,
December 8, 1884. Hence the stamps
issued in homage to him by the post
Office of Norway. Perhaps Denmark
now will follow its neighbor's example
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman Is at
DanHlle, Va, for the Yuletide season.
The late A. o. Jeffry bequeathed
I'D 80, b. TTw,, ~