Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-25
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The per capita value of the paper
 consumed in the United States yearly : is the greatest in the world and
 amounted during last year to about s1.75. News paper figured largest in the total product, with record for
 1904 of about 650,O00 tons, valued at
 about S22.OO0000 Tn 1890 total of 1e6,053 tons, worth S13. 1884. sui
 feed to meet the demand. We were
 noted as the greatest newspaper read
 ing people on earth in 1890, but in 1904 we read about three times more, or, at any rate, had three times as much offered us to read It is interesting to note that in 1890 the COST of news pa
 per WAS about double what it Is at
 present, namely, S67 ton, as com pared with about s35 now.
 Those Waterbury people who visited the Irish exhibit in New York several weeks ago will be interested ill the following, as the display of Belleek was one of the chief features of the exhibit, Speaking at Athlone the other day, Cardinal Logue said: Some years ago helped to revive an indus try in Fermanagh-that is, the Belleek pottery. It was closed up, and likely to cease. I helped to revive, not that I can do much myself, but I started business men. My work to revive it was not to make money by it. I do x,<<%rs .Exf. 4sxfo frr hr,f r have deep interest in the people. My principal object was to get work for the people. Since I came to this diocese of Ardagh and 'Clonmacnoise I did not see single bit of Belleek ware in the whole diocese except a little harp saw in my own bedroom last night. Everywhere I see Stafford shire, and it is hideous compared to our beautiful pottery in Belleek."
 A perfect two headed turtle is very unusual animal, but there is one in captivity in Washington now that has excited considerable curiosity among the snake sharps of the National mu- scum. The turtle is avery little fel- low, and is now in the possesS{on of local bird fancier. It was captured in Virginia some time ago and brought to the capital by a hunter. It is about as big as a silver dollar, and looks like an ordinary young land turtle, except that there are two perfectly developed heads sticking out of it's shell. Other wise it seems to be perfectly normal Just what it's arrangements are inside no one knows, but it eats with both mouths and winks it's four little bead like eyes in blocks of two" each head being indifferent to the others per formance in this regard. It has but one tail and the usual turtle comple- ment of four legs, The owner is mak- ing a determined effort to raise it, and the little fellow will not be cut open to investigate his interior department so long as he consents to feed on flies and fresh meat, which just now con stitutes the chief part of his diet.
 Newspapers all over the country are fin receipt of a circular letter from a Des Moines newspaper apprising them that the postoffice authorities at Wash ipgton have held that reports of prize winners at euchre and whist parties will suffice under the anti-lottery law 10 exclude any newspaper from the mails. The newspaper in question states that it's presses were stopped one day last week aud thirty minutes delay ensued in order to remove from its columns statement that Mrs Jones had won cut glass water pitch CT and Mrs Smith had won a chafing dish at Mrs Johnson's card party. The Des Moines postmaster. after carefully reading his instructions. decided that such reports should exclude a news paper from the malls, quite as much as the report of raffie. lottery or oth- CT gambling device. He telegrapnen the department at Washington and was advised by it that his construc- ton of the postofice rules was literally correct. but that the department had never seen fit to enforce the rule as against reports of society card games. That left the question open. and Iowa editors are asked to secure rhe inter veution of their congressman.