Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — Sold His Wife for 25 Cents. [ARTICLE]

Sold His Wife for 25 Cents.

A German contemporary has * the following story: In UpjSer Heiduk, in Silesia, a, workingman sold his wife?' for a term of two years to an acquaintance for a shilling. The wife lived with her partner in harmony, when one day the lawful husband, thinking he had surrendered her too cheaply, called upon the man and demanded a further sum of fifteen shillings. The lady, he said, had a apt of beautiful teeth. He had forgotten that, and he considered fifteen shillings a Small sum under the circumstances. The “man in possession” demurred and th,e husband' sought the aid of the law. The authorities, it appears, pronounced that as he had contracted himself out of his legal rights for two ‘years, and for one shilling, he was not entitled te any further amount. ,