The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-23
APA1ERNAL GOVERNMENT.
Life In Saxony--Yellow Tickets for Every

Life In Snxony--Ye!low Tickets for Every
thing.
You cannot live in Saxony without
handling an assortment of yellow
tickets every day. You get ticket
for everything. When you pay your
fare on the street car the conductor
gives you yellow ticket. Before
reaching the end of your trip, another
official enters the car and tears corner
off the ticket. If you send a package
by express you receive yellow ticket.
If you send money by mail you get
two yellow tickets, one for the con-
signee and one for yourself, and when
the consignee receives the money he
also receives a yellow coupon, and
signs yellow ticket. When you buy
bill Of goods in a store you are
handed yellow ticket, and when they
are delivered at your house the bundle
boy gives you another yellow ticket
and takes the one you first received. 1
don't know whether the minister who
officiates at wedding gives the bride
and groom yellow tickets or not, but l
believe they must have one when their
first baby is born. If you live at 1856
b street, and you move to 1895 A
street, you must 60 to the city hall and
get a yellow ticket. If servant girl
leaves Mrs. X, and goes to work for
Mrs. Xxx, she must also go to the city
hall and get yellow ticket. 1t is
probable that the Saxon goes into the
next world with yellow ticket in his
hand, but that is another point upon
which l have no definite information.
All this seems very strange and very
funny to an American until he has in
CURED into it thoroughly, and then it
strikes him that the plan is an excel
lent part of an excellent system. In
the street car, for instance, there can
be no such thing as knocking down."
The brace bell-punch will not work.
every passenger must have receipt
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official who tears the corner off. Every
body knows the value of receipts for
packages sent and received, whether it
be express, by post, or by bundle-boy.
The books of the city hall will tell
you where every man in Chemnitz re-
sides, the number of the street as well
as the number of the flat; they will tell
you whether he is married or single;
whether he lives with his parents or
rooms alone; how many children he
has; how old he is; how old his. wife is,
and how old his children are; what his
trade is; whether he keeps a servant
girl; what he pays her; how much his
income is; where he was born, etc.
etc. They VIII tell you in a word, any
thing that is possible to find out con-
corning himself and his business. He
cannot sail under false colors. If he
pretends to have an income of 10000
marks per annum he must pay an in
come tax on that amount or prove that
he has been talking too big. If mer-
chant is thinking of hiring man, he
can, within forty-eight hours, discover
whether his prospective employe has
ever been mixedup in dishonorable
scrape, and determine whether or not the
account given by the man regarding
his own history is true.
There is another feature of this
system which is remarkable. If you
know the number of the house where
certain man lives, whose history you
are anxious to ascertain, but you cannot
possibly find out his name in any other
way, you can go to the city hall and
have not only his name, but his entire
record, placed before you in a short
time. The number of the house tell,
the story. But you cannot get infor
nation about Tom Dick or Harry
simply to satisfy an idle curiosity OIL
for purposes of blackmail. You must
show cause for seeking the history OF
Tom, Dick or Harry; your own name is
entered as having called at the city hal
at such a time for such and such {
purpose; and if you use the infor
; nation which you have received un
, lawfully you will be punished severely
Ancient Greek Manuscripts.
Many ancient manuscripts of untold
7alue are believed to be stored away in
the monasteries of Greece. A loss that
will never be understood to its full ex'
tent has just been sustained in the
destruction of the monastery of Vato
pedi, which took fire through careless
nose of ono of the monks and in the