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An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sate ot second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board ot Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
the disinfection and the proper registry
thereof, and for other purposes. ,
Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by ihe Mayor
and Council of the City of'Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or firm or corporation to keep
and expose for sate any second hand or
cast off clothing within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless the said
clothing has been disinfected by the Board
of Health of the City of Griffin, and the
certificate of said Board ot Health giving
the number and character of the garments
disinfected by them has been filed in the
office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the
City of Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving
individual citizens at the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their* own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the same
is known to have been subject to conta
geous diseases, in which event this ordi
nance shall apply.
Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for each garment
disinfected by the Board of Health of
Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to
said board the actual cost of disinfecting
the said garments, and tor the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum ot twenty-five cent#, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum
of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a. violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not more than one hundred
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge of the Criminal Court, for eaeh of
fense. It shall be the duty of the police
, force to see that this ordinance is strictly
enforced, and report all violations the
Board of Health.
Sec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin that from and
after the passage of this Ordinance:
Sec. Ist. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, fire
plug, curb box, or any other fixture or
machinery belonging to the Water Depart
ment of the City of Griffin; provided that
a licensed plumber may use enrb service
box to test his work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section.
Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
ployed by them, or not a member ot their
•family, to use water from their' fixtures.
Sec. 3rd. It shall be unlawfal for any
person to use water from any spigot or
spigots other than those paid for by him.
Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful tor any
person to couple pipes to spigots unless
paid for as an extra outlet.
Sec. sth. It shall be unlawful for any
person to turn on water to premises or add
any spigot or fixture, without first obtain
ing a permit from the Water Department.
Sec. 6th. It shall be unlawful for any
person to allow their spigots, hose or
sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00
o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., for
any purpose whatever, unless there is a
meter on the service. , Spigots and pipes
must be boxed or wrapped to prevent
freezing; they will not be allowed to run
for that purpose.
Sec. 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
of reading meters, examining pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
so.
Sec. Bth, Any person violating any of
the provisions ofthe above ordinance shall
be arrested and carried before the Criminal
Court of Griffin and upon conviction shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or sentenced to work on
, the public works ofthe City of Griffin for
a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned in the city prison for a term not
exceeding sixty days, either er all, in the
discretion of the court.
Sec. 9th. The employees of the. Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power of regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
, Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
' cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol
lowing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One 4-inch opening for subscribers’
use 0n1y,.... $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath. 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof qf use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3. Meter rates will be as, follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1 000
25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 * 100,000 “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ " 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been used or not.
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for full time. ■ < '
5. Water will not be turned 'on to any ,
premise® unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
in accessible position.
6. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and :
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De- ;
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest :
of the piping must be done by a plumber (
at the consumers’ expense.
THE JACK POT TEST.
HOW A MEAN GAMBLER SPRUNG IT
ON SISTER ABIGAIL
He Wasted Another Proof of a Theory
Concern Inc a Womanly Weakness and
Got It at the Kxpenso of Uncle Uriah’s
Opponents at Poker. •
Bent, but tall, with sparse whiskers
seldom trimmed, nearly 70 years old,
Uncle Uriah used to sit in the poker
game in Omaha, his long, thin fingers
tremblingly placing his chips and his
old eyes glittering as he timorously
skinned his hand. Pathetically like Lit
tle Nell’s grandfather he looked some
times, but he was at no desperate shift
to obtain a stake, for he was the pos
sessor of a competence, and he brought
into the game the caving grace of the
parsimony to which he had been habit
uated in his earlier days in a New
Hampshire home. He never bought
more than $5 worth of chips at a time.
These he would for the most part ante
away waiting for aces or better, and
when he finally did get a good hand a
bare call represented the climax of his
enterprise.
In those days thero was always a
game on Sunday afternoons, and Uncle
Uriah, although a devout Methodist,
could be counted upon to arrive directly
after service and to sit in until the time
'for afternoon Sunday’school. The boys
used to joke him at first and ask him if
he had sneaked his stake out of the con
tribution box, but to this question and
to air others of similar levity he op
posed a scared Seriousness which showed
that his passion for the game was more
a weakness than a vice.
Uncle Uriah lived with his two sis
x ters—Abigail,* aged 63, and Ann, aged
55. In New Hampshire they had been
called “the girls,” but in Omaha the
irreverent with rude directness, referred
to them as “ Uncle Uriah’s old maids. ”
It did not take the boys in the game
long to discover that Uncle Uriah was
in much fear of Abigail in general and
in mortal dread that she would discover
his besetting weakness. He would al
ways shy at a new player, and he fre
quently held forth to the boys on the
impropriety of talking on the outside
about the features of the game.
“I sh’d hate .to hev the parson know, ”
he used to say. “I wouldn’t keer so
much ’bout Ann, ’cause she’s easy,
skeered, but I wouldn’t hev Sister Abi
gail know fer the biggest jack pot t’was
ever played on this here table!”
There was never any solution to the
mystery of how Sister Abigail discover
ed the obliquity in Uncle Uriah’s life.
Some officious neighbor may have told
her, or in an excess of caution Uncle
Uriah himself may have aroused her
definite suspicions. At any rate, on a
particular Sunday afternoon he arrived
at the room at the regular time, but
without the key with which he, in
common with other participants in the
game, had been provided. The negro at
tendant admitted him, and ho was soon
engrossed in the play.
There was a good jack.pot on the ta.
ble. Uncle Uriah was in and was deal
ing. It was his last say, and the two
men ahead of him had bet $lO each. He
had drawn one card, and the play was
up to him. He had not, however, look
ed at his draw when the key turned in
the snap lock of the front door, and Sis
ter Abigail, pale with a righteous and
terrible rage, strode into the room and
up to the table. , *
“Gamblin!” she cried. “And on the
Lord’s day, with the church bells ringin
outside and decent people flockin to his
worship. I expected to find you here,
you hypocrite!” she went on, turning
to Uncle Uriah. “You better get on
your duds right now and come home.”
“I was comin in a jiffy,” the old
man sail, weak with fear. “I guess I
might as well go ’long with you as with
anybody else. ” He rose and steadied
himself by holding the chaar.
Seth Coe was the coolest hand in the
game. Even Sister Abigail-had not dis
concerted him. He reached over and
turned up Uncle Uriah’s hand. It was
a flush.
“You better straighten this pot out
before you go, uncle,” said Coe. “You
call, of course. I suppose a flush is
good?’ ’ Coe asked, turping to the other
players. They nodded assent. Coe stack
ed up the chips. “Forty-three dollars
here,” he said, pushing them toward
Uriah.
The old man started instinctively to
ward the pot and theniremembered Sis
ter Abigail. He stopped and waited
tremblingly for her decision.
It seemed to the -players, who turned
from the weak and timid old mam to
the dominant woman, thatiat this cru
cial test something of her moral rigidity
relaxed. She'did notjSweepitho qhipsto
the floor. She said nothing about ill
gotten gains. With.a visibfle effort she
overcame a slight nervous Iconstriction
of the throat. She grasped her skirts
firmly and swept toward the < door.
“Uriah,’’she said, with great dig
nity, “I will wait for*you in the hall
at the foot of the stains. ”
After Uncle Uriah had obtained his
$43 and departed Seth Coe said in his
leisurely way:
“The old man didn’t have a flush. I
slipped in a card to fill it out for him.
I reckoned you fellows wouldn’t mind
payin once more for positive-proof that,
no matter what kind of a woman she is,
she’s always in with your play when
you win the pot.”*—New York Sun.
Careful.
It is related of a certaiu< clergyman in
Edinburgh thatdiewas so careful of. his
quotations and/so fearfuhof the charge
of plagiarism that once, in addressing
the Deity, he surprised the congregation
by saying, thou knowest, dear
Lord, that, to quote a writer in a late
ntimber of 'The Quarter lyißeview, ” eta
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Though the Ereach are the greatest
mushroom eaters in the world, cases of
poisoning veryy rarely occur owing to
the fact that abnost all the mushrooms
eaten are raise/L
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BANK’S PART IN FARMING.
Hat? the traders Id Money Bnaklo SeO
Tlllere to Work.
How does a bank help the farmer? *
With the approach of the time for
plowing and planting, seeds and fer
tilizer will bo necessary. How can the
farmer buy them if the last season was
a poor one? He has spent all of his
earnings in running the household dur
ing the long winter. He goes to the
dealer in fertilizer in the nearest vil
lage and asks, “What is the price off
fertilizer a ton?”
“Fifty dollars," the dealer replies.
“Well, I will need two tons, and
that will amount to $100." «
“Yes. Take it along now?”
. “I haven’t the ready cash just now,
but”—
“Oh, that’s all right. I know you’re
good for it. Take it along and give me
your note payable in four months. By
that time your crops will be yielding a
profit. ”
The farmer gives his note; the dealer
indorses it and gives it in payment to
the wholesaler from whom he gets the
fertilizer; the wholesaler sends it to the
manufacturer of the fertilizer, who in
turn takes it to his bank and borrows
the money on it less the interest
i The farmer gets his seed in the same
way and at the time of the expiration
of the notes is able to meet his obliga
tions.
Thus, instead of the farmer being
compelled to wait until he can get the
cash to pay before he can buy the fer
tilizer and seed, he obtains them when
he needs them. The dealer; instead of
having to wai t until the farmer gets the
money before lie can sell his goods, sells
them in the proper season and receives
what is to him practically cash. The
wholesaler receives from the retailer
what is as good as cash to him, and the
manufacturer receives virtually cash
from the wholesaler.
How would all this be possible were
it not that the bankers had collected the
idle money of other people and were
able to lend it out to good advantage!
The farm would go unplanted; the
ground would go untilled; there would
be no crops'to yield a profit
That’s where the bank helps the
farmer.—New York Press.
GOLD FILLED TEETH.
Moro of the Metal Goes Into Them Than
' Can Be Got Out.
An example of some of the queer ex
periences people have when they are
called upon to buy a thing with which
they are not familiar and which they
have need of only on rare and unusual
occasions is thus set forth by ths Mil
waukee Sentinel:
A young woman who worked as a
domestic went to a dentist to get her
teeth repaired. He repaired them and
sentabill of SBS. He justified himself
for the charges by explaining how
much the fillings cost him. In one hol :
low tooth, he said, he put $lO worth of
gold. The bill was paid, and recently,
when the little nugget (said to be worth
$10) came out, the woman took it to a
goldsmith and had it appraised. He
weighed it scrupulously and valued it
at 48 cents. She no longer has faith in
her dentiqt.
It seems to be always good taste to
“go shopping” among the dentists be
fore having any considerable amount of
work done. There is considerable hum
buggery about the business in some
quarters. The public is told that sls is
a fair price for a crown and stands
ready to pay it, on the ground that
good work deserves good pay. A few
blocks away the same work was done
last week for $5, just as well as if sls
had been paid, and it was done by a
reputable dentist. One dentist figured
on SBS for six teeth, and another 200
yards away performed the service for
S3O. —Philadelphia Times.
The First Chinese Baby Show.
The first Chinese baby show in the
world has just been held here. There
were 200 of them. From embroidered
slipper to shaven poll they were arrayed
in their best. They wore satin blduses
that shone in the sun with a silvery
shimmer. They wore embroideries of
wonderful birds and bees and flowers
never seen on land or sea. The little
boys were shaven, and the little girls
had their hair stiffened and polished
and dressed as though for the grandest
function, with little birdcages and
fringes of beads and paper atop. There
were great tinklings of metal and much
shining of green jade. A new fashion
in infant headgear showed a halo of stiff
pompons that rose above the infants’
somber eyes. Others wore huge rosettes
of silk on each temple, like a joss, and
one little girl had a mane of black silk
cue strings hanging down from the
back of her head. Even the baby com
plexions had been looked after. On the
smooth, yellow cheeks appeared the
most lovely patch of pink rouge, put on
quite frankly in the Chinese fashion.
The rosebud mouths were touched up,
and the narrow brows beautifully pen
ciled.—Penang Gazette.
Humors of the Dublin Gallery.
The humor of the Dublin gallery has
long been proverbial Macready, in his
“Reminiscences,” relates that on one
occasion when playing Otway’s “Venice
Preserved,” Jaffier’s long and rather
drowsy dying speech was interrupted
by one of the gallery, in a tone of great
impatience, calling out very loudly,
“Ah, now die at once!” to which an
other from the ether side immediately
replied, “Be quiet, you blackguard,”
then turning with a patronizing tone to
the lingering Jaffier, “Take your
time. Conihill Magazine.
The Russian Soldier.
The common soldier in Russia re
ceives 3 rubles per annum—about $2.25.
The day rations consist of two pounds
of suchary, which is a very coarse kind
of bread made of cracked rye, baked bard
at first, then cut into small pieces and
further dried in a heated oven; a small
quantity of salt and some soup.
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IN NEW YORK’S EARLY DAYS.
The Bowery Wae the Reaort of Wealth,
Beauty and Faabion. ,
“A pleasant picture occurs to me of
a summer progress of the family of
Governor Stuyveaanl to and from the
meeting house, for divine wonhip in »
the fort near the Battery, New York,*’
writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in Ths
Ladies* Home Journal, describing
“When Fashion Graced the Bowery. ”
“In a brave coach, drawn by shining
hones, is ensconced the governor him
self, whose long, laced coat half hides
his wooden leg handed with silver. He
wears a carefully curled peruke and
holds his hat upon hia knee, in order to
court tho cool sea breeze that fans tail
rugged visage. Hia lady, sitting in state
beside him, is, in their staid and phleg
matio community, accounted a brilliant
personage; her gowns came out from
her native Paris, and her silken hood ii
Worn over frizzled and powdered hair;
her embroidered hose and high heeled
shoes, her rings, bracelets and lockets,
with the gorgeously bound book of de
votions supended by a golden chain to
her waistband, may be depended Upon
as models of the very latest modes.
Mrs. Bayard, the widowed sister of the
governor, occupies a seat in tho coach
facing them.
“After service in the bare colonial
church—where tho dominie’s sermon,
however eloquent, was always brought
to an end by three raps from the clerk’s
stick at the moment when the sands of
the hourglass had announced that the
preacher’s limit of time had been reach
ed—the Stuyvesant party passes out be
tween rows of respectful gazers. ”
Diseases of Miners.
As to whether there are any diseases
peculiar to the miners* calling there is
evidence that, with one, or perhaps two,
exceptions, there are none suph. These
exceptions are an affection »of the eye,
termed “nystagmus,” andsin a'lesser
degree, that disease of the respiratory
organs which usually goes by the name
of miners’ asthma. Nystagmus, al
though not a prevalent affection, is one
With well marked symptoms directly
traceable to the posture of the collier
while at work.
The symptoms are oscillation with
more or less of a rolling motion of the
eyeballs, giddiness, with headache, and
the appearance of objects moving in a
circle, or lights dancing before the eyes.
In severe cases the person affected
may stumble and be so much incon
venienced as to be obliged to stop work.
Dr. Simeon Snell of Sheffield has given
this disease special attention for about
20 years and has published the results
of his investigations, which shew be
yond all reasonable doubt that nysirfg-
Bius is confined almost entirely to those
underground workmen who are engaged
in holing or undercutting the coal, and
is due to the miners’ habit of looking
upward above the horizontal line of
vision, and more or less obliquely while
at work lying on his side. It has been
observed also in firemen and others who
have occasion frequently to examine
the roof, turning the eyes obliquely
while doing so. Any other occupation
in which the person may habitually
turn the eyesupward and sideways will
induce nystagmus.—Coal Trade Jour
nal.
Artiste* Failures.
“Do not, let me beg of you, be afraid
of so called failures, ” said a well known
artist addressing bis class. “They are
only stepping stones to success, the
premiums we all must pay for experi
ence, I may say, without vanity, that I
have been fairly successful in any pro
fession, and yet to one canvas that suc
ceeded there have been as many as 40
which I have scraped down with my
palette knife in disgust. Even if a stu
dent never succeeds, his very failures
may be noble.”
It is not only to art that this exhorta
tion might apply. In every career, in
every walk in life, the same point of
view should be taken. Failures are not
failures really—they are lessons; they
are stepping stones. They should not be
associated for a moment with despond
ency or hopelessness. Just as a child
tumbles and picks himself up as a mat
ter of course 1 and runs gayly on, so
should we children of a larger growth
regard the ups and downs of life, never
losing courage, however often we tum
ble. Young people especially should be
taught that it is not always success
to succeed and that disappointments
should tee taken philosophically. The
idea of a booby prize in games is a good
one. There fire many prizes in life for
those who apparently fail, and even in
worldly matters the' last shall be first
and the first shall/be last in nine casea
out of ten.—New York Tribune.
Six Strong Words.
“You may fire when ready, Gridley.”
That phrase of Admiral Dewey’s as the
Olympia, steaming slowly, was getting
the range of her guns On the Spanish
fleet, is likely to bo long quoted and wide
ly remembered. Surely it breathes cool
ness, care, confidence in the face of an
enormous and pressing responsibility.
Compare it with the thunder it instantly
wakened, ’the tremendous forces it let
loose, tho terrible destruction that follow
ed, and you will find it the most typical
Americanism of the quarter centrry.
Mark, too, its politeness as well as its
touch of comradeship.—Criterion.
Germany's Debt.
Germany’s debt in 1877 was 16,000,000
marks. In 1887 it had increased to nearly
500,000,000 marks., It is now 2,H1,000,-
000 marks, and is still going up with a
steadiness which bears strong testimony
to the financial resources ot the frugal fa
therland. It will* soon be able to'point
with pride to a national debt of the high
est class, scientifically adjusted to the ca
pacity of tho people to bear it, like a pack
saddle to the back of an Andorra mule,
just a shade easier to stand up under than
to lie down under.
Fined For lack «rs Good Taste.
A Breslau hotel keeper has just bean
fined on the ground that “by placing a
tasteless and offensive wooden fence along
one of the finest parts of the roadway he
would wound the aesthetic feelings of tho
public,” contrary to a statute book against
“grober untug,” or “gross nutenoa.*”
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