Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — Queer Ordinances. [ARTICLE]

Queer Ordinances.

Augusta, Ga., has so many funny things in her city ordinances that she has engaged an expert to overhaul and compile them. Some of the passages in the laws are put down as ridiculous, and others are so ambiguous as to be misleading. “It shall be the duty of all green grocers to exhibit the ears of such animals as they offer for sale to the clerk of the market” is one of them. The regulation seemed to anticipate that all sales of animals were to be to the clerk of the market. Of course this stipulation has never been complied with. Here is another: “After the votes have been counted and returns consolidated, as hereinbefore provided, the ballot boxes shall be properly, sealed and deposited with the clerk of council, in whose office they shall remain for thirty days, at the expiration of which time they shall be destroyed by the mayor.” "However, the ballot boxes have never been destroyed, as the law stipulates. The superintendent of streets and drains has To suffer a very peculiar hardship. “It shall be the duty of said officer to remove or have removed all trash, etc., together with all dead animals from the streets, etc., to a place to be designated by the mayor and city council, and there be burned or otherwise destroyed as he may from time to time be directed.” Poor fellow! Apollonius was a geometer who lived about 230 B. C., and whose work in the science has not been surpassed 7>y the most brilliant achievements of others since. Archimedes, a contemporary of Apollonius, first described polygons in circles.