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• 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 curb service
box to test his work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section, y
■ Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
Consumer to permit any person, not em
n loved by them, or not a member ot their
fondly, to use water from their fixtures. f .
Sec. 3rd. It shall be unlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
» spigots other than those paid for by him.
fee. 4th. It shall be unlawfhl for 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
rereading meters, examining pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any.
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
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Sec. Bth. Any person violating any of
the provisions of the 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 of the City of Griffin for
»term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned in the city prison for a term not
exceeding sixty days, either or 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•, hereby repealed.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.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board of Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe foes for
the disinfection and the proper registry
thereof, and for other purposes.
Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by the 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 persons, firm or corporation to keep
ana expose for sale 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 of 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 of tire 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.
Bee. 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 for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum ot twenty-five cents, 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 tbe
Judge of the Criminal Court, for each 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 ot this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One f-inch opening for subscribers’
use only .-..$ 9.00
• Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 8.00
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.
Tbe reading of the meters will beheld
proof of 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:
3222 ™’222 gala - mont h. . isc 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
premiaM unless provided with an approved
stop apd waste cock properly located in
M position.
w ?be 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
by reason of the same.
7 ; application to the Water De-
Pkrtment, the city wm tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk f0r52.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.
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DEADLY SEA SNAKES.
VILE REPTILES THAT INFEST THE WA
TERS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
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j Mere Scratch From Their Faaga Win
) Produce Serious Result*.
Not only do various reptiles and other
queer creatures abound in the forests
r and swamps of the Philippines, but the
- surrounding water of these interesting
’ islands team with veritable sea serpents.
These strange creatures, which pass
. their entire existence in the water, pos-
■ sees deadly fangs. They are a great
■ menace to the fishermen, who are con
i stantly exposed to their attacks.
Technically speaking, science has
’ named the group the Hydrophidae.
1 They-differ froip the terrestrial snakes
only in the possession of a flat, paddle
, like tail. These reptiles inhabit tbe
, tropical seas of the old world and occa
i sionally attain a length of 8 feet Dr.
Rudolph Weber, professor of drawing
in Princeton university, observed large
numbers of these creatures while on a
steamer bound for Sumatra. Dr. Weber
was in charge of a scientific expedition
ahd naturally took special notice of
them. He says that when the vessel was
some 50 miles off the coast myriads of
pea snakes could be seen swimming
hbont as far as the eye could reach.
They kept upon the surface, and several
distinct speoies were recognized among
them. :
During calm weather these reptiles
may be seeh sunning themselves upon
the surface of the sea, remaining mo
tionless except tor a alight undulation
caused by the movement of the water.
When alarmed, the agile reptiles dive
like arrows, leaving a train of bubbles
behind them. Some species are extreme
ly brilliant in coloration, being bright
yellow, banded with black, while others
are tinted With delicate shades of green.
The food of sea snakes consists entire
ly of fishes. Frequently fishes armed
with long sharp spines fall victims to
their appetites. Among these are the
apogous and siluroids, which are fur
nished with spines three and five inches
long. But these do not embarrass the
voracious reptile in the least. The vic
tim is first killed by the snake’s poison,
after which it is swallowed head first.
The spines, naturally pointing toward
the tail of the victim, and being relaxed
in death, are compressed against the
body of the fish as deglutition proceeds.
While in search of their prey, sea
snakes sometimes venture a short dis
tance up the mouth of large rivers.
Dr. Weber records an instance where
he was fishing in one of the rivers on
the east coast of Sumatra. He was using
a dragnet and had cornered a number
of medium sized fish. As the net was
being brought in, two large sea snakes
suddenly made their appearance inside.
They showed no signs of uneasiness at
capture, but Were hurriedly gobbling
down the cornered fishes. Nor did they
cease operations until, the last fish had
disappeared, when the formidable crea
tures made their escape.
Being air breathers, the sea snakes
lead a similar existence to the whale.
Scientists have expressed much interest
as to how long they can remain under
water. Professor R. P. Witfield of the
American Museum of Natural History,
while dragging for corals, saw a large
sea snake lying motionless among some
coral growths, some eight feet below
the surface. It showed no signe of fear
and remained in the same position for
half an hour. The venom of these rep
tiles is even more deadly than that of
the cobra. The fangs are very short,
and consequently do not penetrate so
deep as the fangs of most serpents, but
only a scratch from them is necessary
to produce serious results. Owing to
their great shyness accidents are very
rare, When cornered, they snap upon a
victim. As the eyes are adapted only
for use in the water they strike blindly
when brought into the air, although
living for days when removed from
their native element
Many specimens hauled up in fisher
men’s nets have been sent to zoological
gardens. The London gardens even
went so fax as,to build a special tank
for their accommodation. But these
captured specimns either die en route
or a short time after being placed in
captivity. Seeking a dark corner of
their tank, they refuse all food and ul
timately starve to death. Around tbe
numerous volcanic islands of the Malay
an archipelago these reptiles are par
ticularly numerous. Frequent eruptions
occur among these islands, which are
hafdly more than the body of the vol
cano.
During the time of an eruption the
few people residing near by take to the
water in their boats to escape the rain
of ashes and mud.
It is generally a case of jumping
from the frying pan into the fire, how
ever. At such times the sea becomes
uncomfortably warm from its close
proximity to the burning mountain,
and the sea snakes swim wildly about
fbr escape. They endeavor to climb
over tlfe gunwales of the refugees’
boats, while they twine their bodiesm
great masses about the forward chains.
When about to lay their eggs, these
serpents approach the shore. The eggs
are laid above high water mark and
left to hatch by the heat off the sun.
Many creatures prey upon the young
reptiles. Among their enemies are
sharks and other'large fishes, while the
adults, in spite«of their derfth dealing
fangs, fall victims eagles and
large gulls. After the great typhoonfig
which are common in the Philippines
and their vicinity,’many of these crea
tures may be found along the beach,
where they have been cast up during
the storm and killed by the violent
pounding of tbe waves--—>New York
Times.
A planter in Honduras has a right to
“register" himself and 50 laborers,
whereby they are exempt from military
service.
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BREATHE PURE AIR.
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Breathe pure air always. In the lungs
a most important physiological process
occurs. It is from here that the blood
laden with oxygen is sent to all parts of
the body, giving off along its course its
oxygen and taking up carbonic acid gas,
which it brings at last to the lungs,
when it is cast out in expiration. More
oxygen is taken in by inspiration and
the same process ia repeated.
So let your breathing be full and deep,
going to the very bottom of the lungs
in order that all of the blood in them
may receive its full amount of oxygen
before again starting upon its tour of
distribution through the body. Can one
use anymore forcible argument in favor
of loose clothing than thia? It is abso
lutely impossible to secure plenty of
oxygen if the clothing is worn at all
tight, and oxygen is a food which the
body must have always in abundance to
keep well.
The air leaving the lungs is laden with
that deadly poison carbonic acid gas,
which if given off in a close room when
no provision is made for its escape and
the entrance of pure air soon renders
the air utterly unfit to breathe. Perhaps
some night you will find yourself un
able to sleep and tumble restlessly about
in bed. When this occurs, go to an open
window and inhale the fresh air, breath
ing slowly-and deeply. A few minutes
of this and you can return to bed and
probably will soon be sleeping quietly.
What has happened? By ita restlessness
, the body was asserting its need of more
oxygen. Now you have given it what
it so emphatically asked for, and it is
quiet. We get as much uneasiness and
disturbance from the want of this food
as when we do not eat enough, only the
symptoms are not so well understood
nor recognized so quickly. Always keep
your mouth closed and breathe through
your nose. Then the air is warmed,
slightly moistened and largely treed
from particles .of dust, so that when it
enters the lungs it does not irritate
them.
A condition often met with by phy
sicians is anaemia. In this trouble the
patient is pale, lifeless looking, tired
and generally used up, often without
being able to tell distinctly how she
does feet Sometimes these patients say
that they have not enough blood. It is
really only an element of the blood
which, is wanting, but that is a very
important one—namely, the red blood
corpuscle.
When you know that it is only those
corpuscles which have the power to take
up and carry oxygen, you see at once
how important it is that the blood
should not be lacking in them. Good,
wholesome food, plenty of it and well
digested will give you the corpuscles
Furnish them with the oxygen and the
body will have an important element
toward health.—What to Eat.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
Changing; Position In the Heavens ot This
Celebrated Constellation.
If Job were to rise from the dead and
look upon the heavens, says Professor
T. J. J. See in The Atlantic, he would
see the constellations related to one an
other as ot old, but he would find that
the pole had shifted its position among
the stars, and if an immortal could wit
ness the grand phenomenon which the
precession of the equinoxes produces in
about 12,900 years he would find the
heavens so altered that the former as
pect could be recognized only by an un
derstanding of the changes which had
intervened.
As Humboldt justly remarks, the
beautiful and celebrated constellation
of the Southern Cross, never seen by
the present inhabitants of Europe and
visible in the United States only on our
southern coast, formerly shone on the
shores of the Baltic, and can again be
seen in that latitude in about 18,000
years. The cross will then be visible on
the shores of Hudson bay, but at pres
ent it is going rapidly southward, and
in a few thousand years will be invisi
ble even at the extreme point of Florida.
In like manner the brilliant star Ca
nopus in the constellation Argo, situat
ed some 87 degrees south of Sirius, is
now visible in the southern portion of
the United States. In about 12,000 years
it will cease to rise even in Central
America. From the same cause, if Ptol
emy were to again look upon the heav
ens at Alexandria, he would be unable
to recognize Alpha and Beta Centauri,
which he easily saw and catalogued in
the time of Hadrian. At pfesent these
magnificent stars are just visible at the
pyramids, near Cairo, and in a few
mare thousand years they can be seen
by dwellers on the Nile only in upper
Egypt.
Ho Put Hi* Foot la IL
A woman’s eflub that invested in a
clubhouse not long since was much
against ita will obliged to employ men
laborers. The architect was a woman,
but it was found impossible to procure
women carpenters, masons and plaster
ers. One day shortly before the comple
tion of the structure a workman who
was employed upon the roof made a
misstep and thrust his foot through the
beautiful but not yet dried ceiling of
the auditorium. Just at this time, too,
a number of club members chanced to
be in the building, and their emotions
at the sight of the pedal extremity pend
ent from the ceiling may be better im
agined than described. The man was
eventually rescued and the hole mended,
but the patch still shows upon the ceil
ing, and as the first vice president puts
it, “Well, I knew that if a man had
anything to do with this club he would
be sure to put hisfoot in it"—Chicago
Tribune. ; O;
Taking Tim* by the Forelock.
“Ma, can I go ovqr to Sallie’s house
and play a little while?” asks 4-year-old
PoUy.
“Yes, dear. I don’t care if you do."
“Thank you, ma," was the' demure .
reply. "I’ve been. "--London Eun.
GUNBOAT IN 1,500 PIECES.
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ThaS's the Way It Is to Shipped From
English naval constructor* are vary I
much interested in a gunboat which has I
Inst lw>n comnleted for service on Iwikc
Nyasm, in central Africa, and U to bo
•hipped to that point in pieces like a Chi
nese puzxte. The boat, the Gucndolen, is
now split up into 1,1500 package* far trans
portation. A reporter of the London Echo
describes the boat In Ills account of his In
terview with J. A. Rennie erf the engineer
ing linn which built the Gucndolen:
"So there is going to be lighting on
Luke Nyasea?" I remarked tentatively.
“I never said so," lie replied, with fit
ting. diplomacy. •
“Then that’s my tnlstr.ko. I merely
judged so from the facto? your taking out
what on a lake would Ixi considered a first
class battleship, forth • Juandolcn is boc’.
ily armed, is she not.?•
"Yea, if you i.vll s!; Maxima and four
Hotchkiss guns i. big < rmoment. She is
intended to replace fco throe small gun
boats now on the 1 iko, which are practical
ly obsolete, and w u vast improvement on
them in every wtv*. Ifar length ia 18<J
feet, beam 28 and tonnage 880, and with a
draft of 4 feet C U intended to steam
12 knots.’’
"I suppose the dppth of the lake did not
necessitate a shallow draft vesseif”
"By no maiM, as there ia plenty of wa
ter even close inshore. That enabled us to
have twin acrews, for on shallow water
such as tho Niger or the Khoja, by moans
of which the Russians in 1894 penetrated
far up toward Chltral, a stem wheel ia ab
solutely necessary. She ia quite a normal
type, except for the fact that she ia fitted
With Fraser’s under fired boilers and will
burn wood fuel, of which there ia an
abundance in and around the lake. Coal
is only brought up from tho coast for ths
use of two or three forges at a cost of some
«10 per ton, such is tho difficulty ot trans
port." ' . ’... ' 1 ,
"And that difficulty will be increased in
tho case of a gunboat, I should imagine. ’’
."Not so much as you think,” said Mr.
Bennie. “You see, we can only bolt, not
rivet, her together in tho yard here, so as
to insure the perfect fitting together of
every part. In this condition the Guen
dolen was inspected by Sir Edward Reed,
who expressed himself as thoroughly satis
fied with her. Then sho was taken to
pieces, every piece being previously num
bered, and on a small model these nuxn
txfrs are marked off, the internal fitting*—
of course the model is only of the outside
of tho hull—having their proper numbers
marked on scale drawings. Drawings and
motlel accompany the ship, which is split
up into 1,500 packages, that containing
tho boiler ot 2J4 tons being the heaviest, so
that on her arrival there need be no diffi
culty whatever in putting her together
again."
Mr. Rennie added that if one of the
packages should bo lost, it would be diffi
cult to replace it. The packages are to be
transported for miles over a rough country
by bullock wagons, and as extra weight is
an important consideration no spare parts
are carried. Commander Culleh, B. N.
8., the commander in chief on the lake,
has charge of tho transportation, and he
will superintend the assembling of tho
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He Was Willing.
A distinguished musician was waited
upon one day in his study by a rather
seedy looking stranger, who said to him
with what seemed to bo genuine emotion:
"May a humble brother musician claim
your sympathy for one moment? I don’t
ask you to give me anything, but will you
lend me a dollar or two? You can com
mand $lO a lesson or as much more as you
choose to ask, while I think myself fortu
nate if I can get a pupil now and then at
a half dollar a sitting."
"My friend," said the other, touched by
this appeal, ‘‘perhaps I can help you better
than by lending you money. What is your
branch of music?”
“I give lessons on the violin.”
"Well, we will see what you can do.
Here is a violin. I will sit down to the
piano, and we will play a duet.”
, He whipped a fine violin out of ita case,
handed it to the stranger, seated himself
at the piano and placed a sheet of music
before him.
The caller rasped tho bow across the
strings, leaned forward, looked at the com
position and shook his head.
“Sharps?” he said. "Sharps? I never
play in sharps 1”
Tho distingufiihed musician took tho
violin from him, replaced it in its case
and coldly remarked:
“My friend, what you need is a job as
night watchman in a soap factory."
“Will you get it for me?” eagerly asked
the caller. —Exchange.
* Th* Horrible Niger Company.
That afternoon we took part in a func
tion which is only too common in every
African trading station— a funeral. , A
young clerk had breathed his last a few
hours earlier, after four days’ suffering at
a temperature ot 107 degrees, and now
they were laying him to rest. A deputa
tion from tho steamer attended, and the
scene was a striking one, impressive be
cause of tho curious mingling of the pa
thetic and grotesque. Four naked Kroo
boys were busy baling the water out of a
three foot trench, while a white trader
stood above them mumbling something
from the book held in a shaking hand, and
an alcohol soaked trader stumbling over
the solemn words of the last office is not a
seemly sight.
A rough deal box, such as “long Dane”
guns arc shipped in, lay sinking in the
ooze, and a few dripping men stood bare
headed in tbe rain. Then at a signal the
naked aliens tumbled the case into the
trench, and it refused to sink. Clods were
flung upon it, but the buoyant deal rose
stubbornly to the surface, until two Kroo
boys stood upon it tp hold it down, and
the mold was shoveled about their knees.
Afterward acuttonwood log was laid upon
the whole, in case it might b/eak through
yet, and as we hurried away a mate ex
pressed the feelings of the rest by saying,
"When my time comes, I’ll hold on hard
until you.can launch me from under the
ensign into clean blue water.”—Black
wood’s Magazine. . /■
BMh*p Thorold** Crtop Notes.
The late Bishop Thorold's crisp notes
were proverbial. At the tims that the
bishop put forward his new church’s
scheme another scheme was broached by
one of the leading clprgy in the diocese.
The bishop wrote:
Your scheme is excellent, hat don't publish
it now, or your* will cannon mine, and w*
shall neither of ua get into the pocket.
On another occasion a hardworking
south London parson Wrote asking tor
long leave to go to the Holy Land. His
answer was
Mr Dkak , . Ey nil uenns. Go to
lierlcbu. Yours. A. V. B.
—London Figaro.
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