Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — A Valued Heir-Loom. [ARTICLE]

A Valued Heir-Loom.

A rather tragico-comlc trial has been going on in the Stuttgart between a bridegroom and his intended brother-in-law over an heir-loom in the shape of a lock of Schiller’s hair. A professor in the gymnasium had been some time paying court to a daughter of the Commerzeinrath. This gentleman had inherited from his father, who was an intimate friend ol Schiller’s, a lock of the poet’s hair inclosed in a gold medallion. After the professor’s engagement to the daughter he stated to the father that if he would give her the lock of hair he would renounce his claim to the usual bride’s dower. The father informed him that in a regular family conclave of his own father it had been decided that the relic should, through all posterity, descend to the eldest son, and as he had a son ft was not in his power to give it to his daughter. The professor, not to be thwarted in his desire, set his wits to work'to obtain the treasure, and finding no other way practicable actually stole half of the lock. The father, out of love for his daughter, would gladly have forgiven the theft to avoid the scandal ot exposure, but the eldest son and brother was not to be conciliated unless the stolen property was returned. This the professor refused to do he was arrested for theft, tried and found guilty. The legal value of the treasure was set at fifty thalers; the professor, having taken half, was condemned to pay half the value —twenty-five thalers—and suffer eight days’ imprisonment. Whether the love affair will continue depends on the young girl, who has been an agitated witness in the pending trial. How little the poet ever dreamed, he who was so loving and gentle in his life, «f causing sorrow to his friends so long after his body is moldering dust.— Berlin Letter.

Mathematics is a science with many parts—a bureau with an elaborate series of drawers. The foundation of all is arithmetic, and in the almost countless compartments of this drawer is contained the whole of the science as it pertains to financial and commercial transactions,, small and great, simple and complex. It is only as one branches out in surveying, navigation or astronomy that any use to made of so-called “ higher mathematics.” Every man and every woman needs to understand arithmetic. It comes in use constantly. It is only one among ten thousand who has any use for any other department of mathematics.— Chicago Evening Jour. TLaxd winter in Boston, according to the Transcript: “The social dead-beat frequents the halls and corridors of hotels of evenings just now, and when he sees a dance going on in the parlors, dons his gloves, ‘rings in,’ and gets his ice-cream and cake without paying for it.” The editor of the Chinese paper in San Francisco has an easy time of it If the forms are knocked into pi it makes no difference with the paper. The types are bunched together, locked up, and it’s just as good Chinese as before. The fact that a seer "and a ■prophet are about the sjtme thing reconciles Boston girls to the belief that to marry {Sears, the yaung piillionaire, would aflM 4 prohl as a matrimonial investment • •** ‘- 1 i-