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An Ordnance.
Be iiordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City ot Griffin that from and
after the passage of thia Ordinance;
Sec. Ist. That it shall be unlawfal 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 ot the City of Griffin; provided that
a licensed plumber may nse curb service
box to test bis work, but shall leave ser
vice cock ae he found it under penalty of
the above section. t , , .
Sec. 2nd. ft shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person,
ployed by them, or not a mmlxr ot their
family, to use water from their fixtures.
Bec. SrcTTrSall be unlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot.or
uniffots other than those paid for by him.
P sK“ It shall be unlawful 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
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 of the above ordinance shall
be arrested and carried before the Criminal
’ Court of Griffin and upbn 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
a 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hereby repealed.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 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 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 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 of 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 for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum of 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 the
Judgwwf 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 ot 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 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries24.oo
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 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:
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.
I 4. Notice to cut off water must be given
I to the Superintendent of the Water De
ft partment, otherwise water will be charged
■ for full time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
I an accessible position.
Th® Department shall have
the nght 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 lav
pipes to the sidewalk for $2 50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
STREET QAMIN IN REAL LIFE.
Mot So Moblo la Character aa the Story
Writer. Picture Him.
“I have read a good many stories, ”
said the city man, “about the honest
I newsboy who chases a man three blocks
I to return the $5 goldpiece given in
I mistake for a nickel, the sympathetic
bootblack who protects the widow’s
son, or the heroic street gamin who
gets ran over by a dray while rescuing
another boy and murmurs, ‘ls Jimmy
all right?’ and then dies. I have come
to the conclusion that these stories ,are
written by girls fresh from school or
refined old maids who live in a village,
and they are read by men who thought
fully stick the tongue into the cheek
while reading. Yet there are men who
mad and believe.
"I saw one of this class the other day
who went to the rescue of a bootblack
who was trying to fix his broken box.
“ ‘My lad,’ said the good man—they
always call them ‘lads’ in these stories
-—‘yon are in trouble. Let me assist
you.’
“Then he knelt on the sidewalk in
his good clothes, used a half brick for
a hammer, raked up some twine from
his pocket and after 15 minutes’ hard
work made a creditable job. Mean
while about "30 street boys gathered
around. One slipped a piece of old iron
into his pocket, the grateful bootblack
with a bit of chalk decorated his back
with a hideous caricature, his hat was
knocked into the gutter as he arose,
and one of the boys accused him of
stealing a ‘dabber. ’
“The man flushed with natural in
dignation, and immediately there arose
a whoop of derision, and as he strode
away he was guyed by the whole crowd
for two blocks. While in this frame of
mind it would have done him good to
have interviewed some of the ladies
who write the picturesque tales about
the imaginary street boys. Chicago
Times-Herald.
z PANBESA’S LETTER.
An Account of an Egyptian City Thirty
Centuries Ago.
Probably the oldest letter in the
world is the letter of Panbesa, written
15 centuries before Christ to his friend
Amenemapt, a scribe.
The manuscript isof perishable papy
rus, and it is amazing that it should
have survived for more tjjan 80 cen
turies and still be legible.
It is preserved in the collection of the
British museum. It has been several
times translated during the present cen
tury. It presents an interesting picture
of life in Egypt in the time of Rameses
H. It is more in the nature of aJj ter ary
production, a poem composed in cele
bration of the visit of Pharaoh to the
city of Pa-Rameses, than an ordinary
letter of today.
Panbesa “greets his lord, the scribe
Amenemapt, to whom be life, health
and strength,’’ and then goes on to de
scribe the verdant fields, the thrashing
floors, the vineyards, the groves of
olives, the orchards of figs, the great
daily markets, with their fish and wa
terfowl and swarms of purchasers.
The citizens had their "sweet wine
of Khemi, pomegranate wine and wine
from the vineyards,” and.to these they
added “beer of Kati.”
There was music in plenty furnished
by the singers of the school of Memphis.
On the whole, Pa-Rameses seems to
have been a pleasant place to live in.
“The lesser folk are there equal with
the great folk,” and Panbesa writes
that its maidens were “in holiday at
tire every day” with locks “redolent
of perfumed oil. ” —Washington Star.
A Method In His Manner.
It was raining cats and dogs outside,
and the Columbus avenue car was
crowd A young Woman stood looking
from oue seated man to another, but the
men would not budge. She looked tim
idly, then appealingly, then daggers,
but they did not care.
Finally the worst dressed and rough
est looking man in the car got up.
“Here is a seat for you, mum,” he
said suavely.
"Oh, thank you ever so much,” said
the young lady, shooting glances at the
other men which said, "You are gentle
men, but this uneducated laborer could
give you a lesson in manners. ”
Presently she was shifting about on
her seat, shielding now her face, now
her white stand up collar and looking,
with a troubled face, at a point in the
ceiling from which the water came
down at irregular intervals in splashes
as big as a cent
The well dressed men buried their
smiles in their newspapers. The labor
er, now ensconced in a corner near the
driver, gave his vis-a-vis a wink.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Gooseberries on Trees.
Travelers in Burma see many strange
things, and perhaps one of the strangest
is the way in which some kinds of fruit
grow.
For instance, gooseberries that at
home grow on small bushes in this part
of the world grow on trees over 25 feet
high. They are not a soft, pulpy fruit,
but are as hard as marbles.
The real Burman grapes also grow
on high trees and not on vines. They
hang from the branches and trunk of
the tree in clusters on a long stalk and
are covered with a thick outer skin,
which cannot be eaten.
The cachou, or monkey nut, is also
peculiar and consists of a large, juicy
fruit of soft pulp, with its nut or kernel
attached to the outside of the fruit at
the end farthest from the stalk from
which it hangs.—London Standard.
A Logical Concilia! on.
In a recent Walla Walla divorce suit,
in which the defendant failed to ap
pear, the referee made* the following re
port:
“The plaintiff appearing in person
and by her attorney, and the defendant
not appearing and no ? one appearing for
him, therefore he did not appear. ”
Walla Walla Statesman.
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THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
It Caste at Lmml *30,000 a Tear to Kee*
the Big Building In Repair.
It costs 180,000 a year to maintain Un
de Sam’s 114,000,000 building on Capitol
hill. That is the amount congress allows
every year for mechanics and laborers, for
brushes and hardware and lumber, for
tiles and grate bars and all the other sup
plies necessary to keep the capital in re
pair.
For improvements congress has appro
priated an average of $25,000 a year in the
ton years Just past, and much of that has
been spent in the last 12 months; Fifty
five thousand dollars has been used to
transform the senate’s system of ventila
tion and $45,000 to Introduce electrio light
in the building and grounds. For the
current year other changes are planned.
There is always something unfinished
about the capital. A few years ago the
most noticeable Inoompleteneta waa in the
terrace on the west front of the building.
That is completed now. But the painter’s
ugly scaffold hanging in the rotunda
draws attention to the still unfinished
Brumidi frieze, and in the basement ot
the senate wing the abrupt termination of
the brilliant tropical wall decoration is a
constant source of surprise.
Chance is responsible for the incom
pleteness of the wall paintings. They were
begun many years ago by an artist of rare
merit. He grew tired of the work or he
died—no one about the capital can say ac
curately which. At all events he ’disap
peared from the scene and the walls of
the senate wing remai beautiful in some 1
spots and bare in oth s. The beautiful
spots have been clean ' I and renewed re
cently by W. H. Duckstein. Mr. Duok
steln has added also to the cleanliness of
what is known to the irreverent as the
chamber of horrors by cleaning the mar
ble statues there.x
The delay in completing the frieze is not
a matter of chance. It is due to a dispute
in the committee on library over the im
portance of certain events in national his
tory. This frieze, begun by Brumidi, an
Italian artist, in 1878. was only partly
done at the time of his heath" in 1882. The
hanging scaffold on which Brumidi did
his last work remained in place a long
time until another Italian, Costaggini,
was employed to carry out Brumidi’s de
signs.
What is repibsented by the annual ap
propriation of $30,000 and in the last year
by the special appropriations of $55,000
and $45,000 is not all that it takes to run
the capitol and grounds. Care of the
grounds costs $12,000 a year, steam heat
ing and machinery for the senate $4,000,
the lighting of the building and grounds
and of the botanic gardens opposite $36,-
792 and the operation of the engine house
and stables $2,000.
But for the building Itself the cost of
maintenance is SBO,OOO a year, or, includ
ing the improvements, $55,000. Some
business men figure repairs and improve
ments at 10 per cent of the value of the
building, and the actual cost of the capitol
to date has been $14,000,000. —Chicago
Tribune.
Robert Fulton’s Torpedoes.
Before he turned his attention to navi
gation by steam Robert Fulton invented a
marine torpedo which he endeavored to
dispose of to the United States govern
ment. Succeeding in interesting James
Madison, then secretary of state, in the
matter, he Obtained a small appropriation
from the government for the purpose of
conducting some public experiments. In
the summer of 1806 he invited the high
dignitaries and a number of prominent
citizens of New York to Governor’s island
to see the torpedoes and machinery with
which his experiments were to be made.
While he was lecturing on his blank tor
pedoes, which were large, empty copper
cylinders, his numerous auditors crowded
around him. After awhile he turned to a
copper case of the same description which
was placed under the gateway of old Cas
tle William and to which was attached a
clockwork lock.
Drawing put a peg, Fulton set the clock
in motion, and then he said in solemn
tones to his attentive audience: “Gentle
men, this is a charged torpedo, with
which, precisely in its present state, I
mean to blow up a vessel. It contains 170
pounds of gunpowder, and if I were to
suffer the clockwork to run 15 minutes
I have no doubt that it would blow this
fortification to atoms.”
The circle of humanity which had closed
around the inventor began to spread out
and grow thinner, and before five of the
15 minutes had passed there were but two
or three persons remaining under the gate
way. Some, indeed, lost no time in get
ting at the greatest possible distance from
the torpedo, and they did not again appear
on the ground until they were assured that
the engine of destruction was safely lodged
in the magazine whence it had been taken.
—Sacramento Record Union.
Glad He Waa Not Like These.
“I haven’t any sympathy for the peo
ple who are always complaining and whin
ing,” remarked the man with the troubled
frown upon his forehead. “In fact, I be
lieve that the men and women who are al
ways fancying themselves ill used and
grumbling at other people ought to be
confined just as much as if they had hy
drophobia or got drunk; but there are
some troubles a man really can't help
mentioning.
“Now, for instance,” he continued fret
fully, “I don’t suppose any man in Chi
cago has more real worries than I have.
My wife tells me every night that she’s
tired of hearing me talk of them, and the
other men in the office begin to tell funny
stories just as soon as I come around out
of sheer aggravation, I believe. My chil
dren run out of the room whenever I get
ready for a nice, long, confidential chat
with one ot them, and even the dog howls
when I get ready to talk, I’m nearly al
ways so sad. But do I go round telling
people what a martyr to fate and other
people I am? Well, I guess not, my friend.
I haven’t a particle of use for a chronic
com plainer. Chlcago.Times-Herald.
Grewsome Birthday Celebration.
M. de Paris, otherwise Deibler, the pub
lic executioner of France, has Just cele
brated his seventieth birthday in a grew
some fashion by executing at Bastla, in
Corsica, the murderer Fazzinl. The scaf
foldings of the guillotines remain in the
prisons throughout France wlwrg* execu
tions may take place, but the knife is never
out of M. Deibler’s possession. He carries
it in a long leather satchel, not unlike
an elongated dress suit case. When he
leaves Paris vßth bls grim instrument of
justice, a small army of newspaper men
usually accompany him in the hope that
something may happen. His trip to Cor
sica was hardly noticed, however, on ac
count of the Dreyfus excitement. Deibler
has probably killed more men than any
other living person. ’Fazzinl brought his
record up to 506.—San Francisco Argo
naut.
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Got a Whole re* Mothlag.
week in a Diamond street restaurant A
waiter upset a glass on the marble top
the gfo**
it under the counter and got another
with a smooth edge for the customer be
was serving.
“What do yon do with glasses thus
slightly damaged?” asked the customer
of the restaurant proprietor, relating
the circumstance.
“Oh, we give them away; have to
get rid of them; enn't endanger the lips
of customers by serving them in nicked
glasses. But why are yon-interested?”
"Why, I thought if you would give
me a few of the old glasses my wife
might use them for; .Hies. ”
"Give me your an drew and I’ll send
you some,” volunteered the restaurant
keeper.
The man with a longing for articles
without price went away gleefully, cal
culating mentally on how much he hod
saved on jelly glasses. Two days later,
when he went home from business, he
found 18 barrels iif his Lack yard. His
wife said she supposed he had sent them,
and she paid the man $4.75 for deliver
ing them. When opened, the barrels
were found to contain broken glassware
and china of all sorts. • None of it could
be used, not even for jelly glasses. An
ash hauler charged $2 for taking away
the rubbish. The man who wants things
for nothing has withdrawn his patron
age from a particular restaurant in Dia
mond street —Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph. . ~
Questioning Is Not Conversation.
The man who imagines that the art
of conversation consists in asking ques
tions spoils conversation as much as the
man who never asks any. People of this
description will interrupt a speaker as
frequently as they do in the French
chamber, and run anxiously from sub
ject to subject with their interrogatories,
like a cackling hen that is going to lay
an egg. Horace Walpole, when exiled
at Houghton, bemoans the existence of
such a pest in the person of an aunt
Writing to his friend Sir Horace Mann,
he says: "I have an aunt here, a family
piece of goods, an old remnant of in
quisitive hospitality and economy. She
wore me so down by day and night
with interrogations that I dreamed all
night she was at my ear with a who’s,
why’s, when’s and what’s, till at last
in my very sleep I cried out, ‘For
heaven’s sake, madam, ask me no more
questions.’ ”
Dr. Johnson’s dislike of being ques
tioned is well known, and he gives the
classic refutation of the habit in his
own inimitable style: "Sir, questioning
is not the mode of conversation among
gentlemen. It is assuming a superiority,
and it is particularly wrong to question
a man concerning himself.’’-—Cham
bers’ Journal
Hope Came to Him.
A number of persons were talking
about coincidences, when a clergyman
gave an instance in his own experience.
"When I was a very young man, before
1 entered the ministry, ” said he, “I met
with a series of misfortunes and was
nearly discouraged. One day I was seat
ed on a bench in the park of a foreign
city. My head was sunk upon my hands
and black despair covered me like a
cloud. I had about concluded to strug
gle no longer when a slight noise at
tracted my attention, and I glanced up
to see standing before me and contem
plating me with big, solemn eyes the
most beautiful little girl I have ever be
held. ‘What is your name, my pretty
child?’was my natural inquiry. ‘Hope,’
she answered in a clear, sweet voice.
Then she turned and ran away, and the
little earthly form whose lips had
brought me a message of comfort disap
peared forever, but the white spirit of
her name she had left in my heart, and
from that day I prospered. My eldest
daughter is called Hope.”—Exchange.
Corkers.
At a London club there is the most
unique pair of curtains in existence.
This portiere is formed of hundreds of
champagne corks, taken from every
known brand of champagne, each of
which bears the tin top which adorned
it when the cork was in its parent bot
tle. The corks are made into strings,
there being 60 of them to each string.
Between every cork there are three big
Chinese beads of turquoise blue. Alto
gether there are 24 strings, and at from
12s. to 16& a cork, the portiere repre
sents a total expenditure of about
£I,OOO. The corks are tied to a white
enameled pole, with fancy ends, and big
sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass
knobs. The total effect is distinctly
pretty. What makes this unique por
tiere doubly valuable is the fact that
each cork bears the autograph of a fa
mous actor or actress of the present day.
—London Standard.
Nothing Plebeian About It.
She was an honored member of one
of the hereditary societies and was as
tonished to learn that she was accused
of wire pulling in connection with an
election of officers.
"Wire pulling!” she exclaimed.
"Such an Insult! Why, it is common,
positively common. People do that in
politic*. ”
"Very true,” returned her husband
consolingly, "but in politics it is prob
ably just common, ordinary wire, while
I have no doubt in your case the refer
ence was to the very highest grade of
insulated copper wire. ”
Naturally that made it seem differ
ent. —Chicago Poet.
How They Do la Dawson.
"Up at Dawson City, ” said • return
ed Klondiker, "the people seem strange
to you. Now, while I was at a hotel up
there burglars entered and swiped near
ly $600,000 in gold nugget*"
"What did the boarders do during
all this excitement?” asked the clerk.
"Kept perfectly cool,” was the quiet
reply. —Denver Times
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