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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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed.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. ■ ■ 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. r ’.--J 4- 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. 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