The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-12
Thrice Divorced. Three Tiraes Mar
rted.
From tho Chicago Trlbunel

From tho Chicago Tribune1
Three gentlemen happened to meet
at breakfast at the Grand Pacific hotel
one morning last week They wore
strangers TO each other Suddenly one
broke the silence by the remark by
Jove she's divorced again" Noticing
that his words had attracted the atten.
ton OF his companions, he apologi1ed
and explained that he had been some.
what surprised to SEQ the divorce ofhis
quondam wife chronicled in the legal
intelligence "She and parted" he
said IN dreamy, retrospective manner,
in August lST2-this wife with pot.
lid determined me to destroy my Lares
and Penates-and two months after
wards she married up in Peoria, fell
low named Tompkins,"
"Tompkins u said the second gentle
man, with sudden interest "romp-
kins, Peoria, October, lS72--was her
name Theodosa ? Woman who had
l'mpid blue eyes and always had roll.
lngpin under her pillow on nights the
lodge metz "'rhe same stranger, tho
same. Shake, old pard said the first
speaker "and how was she2' "She was
all my fancy painted her" replied the
second. "But | had rival in n stove
litter for which she had too much ailec.
ton, and in January, 1875 the courts
of Lafayette, Ind, dissolved the bonds
between us. believe she married
ngaln--somo rooster named Green, |
heard"
II am the rooster named Green and
am glad to make your acquaintance.
Gentlemen, knew your wife well for
over year, and barring her vivacity
with toastlng-iorks and long handled
ityingpans, better wife | never had.
But we parted last December
us soon as | could get out of the
doctors hands with fracture of
the skull Gin conjunction with discus
sion concerning getting up to light the
iire-also bootjack), and thought the
fact of our divorce had been previously
announced"
But, said tho first speaker, your
name my companion in divorce, is
Green; the last time she was divorced
II was from Brown Brown Brown2'
said Mr.. Tompkins, refectively there
was one fellow named Brown used to
tag after her" at must be the same
one, Gentlemen" said the first
speaker, refectiyely, this is most re.
markable coincidence. When shall we
three meet again2 don't usually
| drink after breakfast, but this is u
special occasion, and we may, mayn't
weY
So they all went out to the bar room
together to drink success to Brown, and
as they stepped up to the bar they met
II 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
weak eyed young man walked in di-
agonally, and said See here, you fell
lers have got to take II bottle OF wine
with me, Pm newly-married man;
bridegroom rejoicing to run race, you
know have something" And so he
wandered on till, to get rid of him, they
agreed to go up stairs to the ladies par
lor and be presented to his newly made
bride, They did SO, and 10 and behold
she was their wife,
The situation was sufficiently embar-
RAISING, but the woman didn't faint,
but simply remarked, ooh, Mr.. Green,
glad to meet you; your face seems IA
miliar to me Mr., Tomkins; somehow
the name seems known to me, Mr..
Brown, | seem to recollect your face,
any relation to the Browns of Lafayette,
lndiana2"
Truly, truth is stranger than fiction.