The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-04-21
Stran. - than FictiOn-Singular Re-
Union at u Chicago Tavern.
From the Chiiago Tribune.l

From the ChiiagO Tribune
Three gentlemen happened to II eet at
break fast at the Grand Pacific hotel one
morning this week They were stran-
gers TO each other All were reading
the Tribune, when suddenly one broke
silence with the remark: by Jove.
She's divorced again" Noticing that
his words had attracted the attention of
his companions, he apoloR zed and ex-
planned that he had been somewhat sur
pri<ed to see the divorce of his qnondam
wife chruniclrd in the Legal Intelligence.
"She and | parted" he said. ih a dreamy
retrospective manner, in August, 1872
this wife with pot-lid determined to
destroy my Lares and Penates-and two
months afterwards she married up in
Peoria a fellow named Tompkins." 3"
"Tompkin<?" said the second gentleman,
with a sudden interest; Tompkins, Pc
oria, October, lS72-was her name The
odosia? Woman who had limpid blue
eyes and always had a rolling-pin under
pillow on nights the lodge metz" The
same, stranger, the same Shake. old
pard," said the first speaker; land how
was she?" "She was all my fancy paint
ed her, replied the second. But had
a rival in a stove litter for which she
had 200 much affection. and in January,
1873, the courts of Lafayette, Ind, dis
solved the bonds between us. / believe
she married again-some rooster called
Green, heard" 81 am the rooster
named Green, and am glad TO make your
acquaintance Gentlemen, knew yOur
wife we'll for over a year, and, barring
her vivacity with toasring forks and
long handled frying pans, better wife
never had. But we parted last Decem-
her, as soon as ] could get out of the
doctors hands with fracture Of the
skull in conjunction with a discussion
concerning getting up TO light the fire
also bootjack1, and / thought the fact
of our divorce had been previously an
nounced. "But," said the first speaker,
"your name, my companion in divorce,
is Green; the last time she was divorced
1t was from Brown" Brown? Brown"
said Mr. Tompkins, refectively; "there
| was one fellow named Brown who used
to tag after her" at must be the same
one" "Gentlemen," said the first speak
er, refectivelv. this is a remarkable CO.
incidence. When shall We three meet
again? ! usually don't drink after break
fast, but this is a special occasion, and
we may, mayn't we?" So they all went
ont to The bar-room together to drink
snccess to Brown, and as they stepped mp
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." His
three friends shook hands with him sol
EMMY, exchanging three looks of intel
ligence among themselves, when weak
eyed Young man walked in diagonally
and said: "See here, you fellers have got
to take bottle of wine with me. Pm a
newly-marrIed man; bridegroom reJoIc-
ing to run II race, you know; have some.
thing?" And so he wandered on till, to
get rid of him, they agreed to go up
stairs to the ladies' parler, and be pre-.
sented to the newly made bride. They
did so, and 10 and beheld she was their
wife! The situation was sufficiently en-
]
but simply remarked: ''Oh, Mr.. Green
glad to meet you; your face seems ia.
miliar to me, Mr.. Tompkins. Somehow
the name seems known to me, Mr.. Brown
L seem to recoIlect your face; any rela.
tion to the Browns, of Lafayette, Ind p
And so on. Truly, truth is stranger
than fiction