Show BOLD HER HUSBAND and of Ajutrnllun Woman Tile Story an Her Trouble During tho recent hearing of a case at Iaddlngtou Police Court Sydney New South Wales it transpired that the plaintiff had sold her husband against whom she was now proceeding for using threatening language to a lady to whom she had given an agreement agree-ment not to in any way hereafter molest the buyer or take any proceedings proceed-ings against her or join her in any proceedings iu any court of law or equity The document went on to slate In the event of any breach of this agreement agree-ment by me I do hereby bind myself my heirs executors administrators to pay the said purchaser the sum of moo as and for liquidated damages Despite this being duly signed and witnessed wit-nessed the defendants solicitor alleged al-leged that the wife Lad repented of the transaction and was taking proceedings for a Judicial separation The summons sum-mons was eventually dismissed At Munich recently a woman sold her husband a good lookIng neerdowell to n neighbor for a small sum of money and was pleased enough with her bargain until on n distantrelatives death he came Into a considerable fortune for-tune Then she attempted to resume her marital hts but was effectually effectual-ly resisted by her exhusbands present possessor that she resolved to have recourse re-course to the laws intervention To this end she consulted a lawyer only to find that through some technical flaw her own marriage was Illegal and her claim on man and fortune consequently conse-quently invalid For 100 francs n Parisian laundress sold her husband whose laziness and Intemperance seemed Incorrigible to the proprietress of a rival establishment establish-ment Under tho new regime how ever the man was compelled to turnover turn-over a new leaf and boon became such a model helpmate that his legal spouse begnn to regret the transaction and made advances to regale possession These the purchaser resented and on Intercepting a letter from the seller to her husband repaired to the formers house with a stick which she wielded with such vigor that the victims cries cached tile cars of a passing policeman police-man whose authoritative appearance alone imposed peace In the early SOs the writer was present pres-ent at an inn In Cracow when a woman put up her husband to auction She anctlonecr the herself acted as auctioneer while the lot to be disposed ota strapping young fellow of not unpreposseslng appearance appear-ance who was evidently not averse to the proceedings sat on a stool at her I feet Bids came briskly and the man I was ultimately knocked down to a I comely if mature widow with whom he left the hostelry evidently on the best of terms with himself and his purchaser I Even In our own country similar transactions are on record The end ol the eighteenth century affords more than one example of such illegal barter bar-ter In 1774 a Mrs Crutley of Leeds employed the town crier to mnke public announcement that she would on a day named sell her husband described as a good carpenter and a faithful husband hus-band to the highest bidder Despite the ennlogy bestowed upon him the man must have had grievous faults for ho fetched no more than five shillings shil-lings and a gallon of ginA gin-A slightly better price was paid for a Southampton man who in ISdl was sold by his wife a Mrs Bruce at an Inn In Hampshire town lie was fastened fas-tened around the nock with a halter which was held by his wife who hayIng hay-Ing assured those present Hint her husband hus-band was faithful industrious and reasonably sober Invited bids These came briskly a guinea and a bottle of brandy ultimately placing the husband in the possession of the proprietress at a chandlers shop At Manchester a few years previously previous-ly a man named Price was sold in the market place by his wife who to stimulate tho bidding first proclaimed his many accomplishments whereof the wide range extended from boot making to flute playing This Admirable Admira-ble Crlcliton was the object of a been contest and it was not until a guinea a npw dress and a pair of fowls hind been bid that he was knocked down Tit Bits |