The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-20

one morning laSC. week. 10SYSW W010
strangers 10 each other. Suddenly one.
broke the silence with the remark::,ssByy:
Jove' she's 'divorqsi again =, Noti0s'
ing that his won1ss I had attracted the
his com ions, he,tapolo-
gized and explained that he had been
somewhat surprised to see the:divorce
of his qGoAdam wife, chronicled ID the
legal intelligence.s .:She. and / part
ed;;',1he said, in a dreamy, retrospect
i've manner, sin August, 1872 this
wife with a pot-lid determined hieitso
destroy my Lares and Penates-and
two months later she married up: in
Peoria a fellow named Tompkins:'
"Tompkinst!' said the second gen.
tleman, with. a; sudden interest;
''Tompkins, Peoria, October, 1872
was her name Theodosia!' Woman who
had limpid blue eyes and always had a
rolling.pin under her pillow on nights
the lodge met!'' l''The same, stranger,
the same! Shake old spard," said the
first speaker sand how was she :"
'..She was all my fancy painted her."
replied the second. ''But had a rival
in a stove-lifter for which she had too
much affection, and in January, 1875,
the courts of Lafayette, Ind, dissolved
the bonds between us. I believe she
married again-some rooster named
Green, heard.''
81 am the roster named Green, and am
glad to make your acquaintance. Gen.
tlemen l knew your wife well for over
year, and, barring her vivacity with
toasting forks and long handled frying
pans, a better wife I never had. But
we parted last December, as soon as l
could get out of the doctors hands
with fracture of the skull lin con.
juction with a discussion concerning
getting up to light the fire-also a
bootjack), and I thought the fact of
our divorce had been previously an
nounced.'
"But,'' said the first speaker, s'your
name, my companion in divorce, is
Green the last time she was divorced
lit was from Brown" "Brown !?
Brown!" said Mr.. Tompkins, reflect
lively ''there was one fellow named
Brown used to tag after her." ''It
must be the same one.'' "Gentlemen." :"
said the first speaker, refectively,
'sthis is a most remarkable coincid-
ence, When shall we three meetagain.
I don't usually drink after breakfast,
but this is a special occasion and we
may, mayn't we p
So they all went out to the barroom
together to drink success to Brown,
and rs they stepped up to the bar they
met a man who said: ''Gentlemen, this
is my treat. I've just been divorced,
and my name is Brown, and I'm. going
to treat the house. Give it name
and call for the best in the house,
His three friends shook hands with
him solemnly, exchanging three looks
of intelligence among themselves,
when a weak eyed young man walked
in diagonally, and said "See here:
you fellows have got to take bottle
Of wine with me. I'm a newly mar.
ried man; bridegroom rejoicing to run
a race, you know; have something
And 50 he wandered on till, to get rid
of him, they agreed to go up stairs to
the ladies parlor and be presented to
his newly-lnade bride. They did 80,
and 10 and behold she was their wife
The situation was sufficiently EN-.
barrassing, but the woman didn t faint,
hut simply remarked. "Oh, Mr.. Green.
glad to meet you; your face seems
familiar to me, Mr.. Tompkins? Some
how the name seems known to me, Mr.
Brown. 1 seem to recollect your face
any relation to the Browns of Lafay
cite, Ind.?"
Truly, truth, is stranger than fiction