Show AN AH UNSAVORY STATEMENT i THE tura world produces a goodly crop of people whose chief characteristic consists of a chronic disposition to place themselves thoms olves elves on tho the sacrificial altar for the tha enhancement of the public weal those who perused the minutes of the last session of the city council could scarcely fail to observe an illustration of this kind as exhibited in the proceedings A gentleman named john gormly bent sent a communication to the honorable body conveying to the municipal fathers the alarming in telli gence that in his peregrinations in city creek canon he had observed no less than eleven rotting sheep in that locality some gome in the stream and none further from it than thirty feet se he concluded his dapen paper with a recommendation that an inspector bo be appointed to visit the creek once a week at the same timo time benevolently offering onn off ering bring to occupy tho tho the position without salary provid ing the city supplied thim ahlm him with a boreo and saddle this statement was wat calculated to cause considerable alarm and no small amount of nausea among the numerous consumers of city creek water who doubtless prefer to take it plain the introduction of putni nned fled mutton ja in solution does not strike the ordinary mortal as making A health beaith alving orin anyway desirable beverage most people prefer their water clear and their mutton in solid chunks and to consume it ft before the process of decomposition begin begins fortunately mayor jennings took the precaution to ascertain through marshal Phil phillippi lipsi whether the unsavory condition described by john gormly existed 7 01 idec umio except in that gen tl emans emana que the result reduced the number of decaying carcasses to two one of which was located at a distance beyond the possibility of its contaminating the waters of the creek and the other practically so these facts exploded mr COM communication and obviated the necessity ol of his appointment to the of office ilee ilce of dead carcass prospector for city creek for the limited consideration of the use of a horse and saddle raddle it maybe may be asked who is john gormly we do not know further than that the gentleman Is ia a plumber who we are informed has re elded bided here about two years he has taken a good deal of int interest a rest judging from the part ho he has hae taken in public meetings on the subject and the surface burnace of paper over which he has spread himself in the tho sanitary condition of this city he ha has ventured the statement that the people of this town havo have no idea of its filthy condition perhaps so and there Is doubtless great room for improvement and the more thorough the measures adopted to that end the better but a person who multiplies two rotten sheep by five and reports the product and one over sa as the existing number constituting that form of nuisance is hardly an infallible faili falli blo bio authority on matters of that hind klud facts pacts are wanted not sensational statements john gormly is evidently not cut out fur a sanitary inspector |