The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-15

At the littis town Of Altenshr I wss sur
prised TO notice the figures Is legibly painted
on the Intel Of The church door. Apparently,
On edict had gone forth from the home Once
that every house in every town should be
numbered consecutively, and, accordingly,
the church, being the twcnty-third house in
Altenahr, it was numbered %. Fancy II
Westminster Abbey were known to the
Official mind only - No. 81 Pa~rliament-street 4
But the home Government Of Germany Is
conducted on a policy Of '~speddling and med
ding" TO paraphrase . celebrated epigram-
matte saying), which q born German accepts
- his natural heritage, but which to any
other nation would be intolerable. Not long
ago-very likely they are there stili-there
were to be read in the carriages Of Alderman
railway the following regulations: . Only
one window Of this compartment may be open
at one time, and that only on the side from
which the wind does not blow, and that only
with the expressed consent of all the travel
ers in the compartment" So That IL Oh the
hottest day the travellers are unanimous in
wishing to put down both windows, or the
window on the windward side, q paternal
government ~interposes its veto, and says
"Not so, my children. I know what is best
for you. You will get cricks in your necks
and rheumatic pains in your shoulders, and
will be unable to fight for the fatherland.
One window, only, and that on the leeward
side" The maxim of English lawyers, /" De
ninimis non cudat ler,' might be exactly
adapted to German usage by the omission Of
the negative. Any one who may have
CHANGED to take lodgings in q German city
some Is years ago-it may be SO now very
likely-will remember with awe the form
which on the very first day Of his entry was
brought to him from the Pollzei to be filed
up; how he had to inform the Government
not only of his own Christian name and age
but of the Christianlnames and ages Of each
of his revered parents, Of his religious pro-
f~ession, Of his means Of living, Of his reasons
for coming there, whether he had ever been
there before, how long he proposed staying
there, with sundry other particulars,
dear to the mind Of a German officer, but
hateful 70 the independence of a free
born 8riton. The way in which q
German carries about with him under all
circumstances, and probably keeps under his
pillows at night, his Legitamations-S chien,
and all those precious documents attesting
his identity, without which he would consid-
er that he had lost his right to exist, is a
standing marvel to those who believe that
formalities were made for man, and not man
for formalities. 1t must, however, be ad-
mitted that there are occasions when this
bondage to formalities has its compromising
advantages. This present writer set out one
hot Summer day TO walk to the colossal
statue of Bavaria, outside of Munich. The
road lead rounds the outermost boundaries of
a meadow but as the said road was hot and
dusty, and the meadow was soft and cool, he
naturally took the shorter cnt across the
grass. He was accosted on the other side by
an officer, red with anger, who informed him
that the way across the meadow was .. am
strengsten uerb0ten," and that he was liable to
a fine of 8 gulden, which would assuredly
have been afflicted, but unfortunately the
officer whose duty it was to enforce it was
gone to his dinner, and therefore the majesty
of the law could not for the moment he vim
dicated.-Frdser's Magazine.