Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-04-27
Thrice Divorced. Four lines Married.


at breakfast at the Grand Pacific Ho.
tel one morning last week. They
were strangers 10 each other. Sud.
denly one broke the silence with the
remark: "By Jovel She's divorced
again. Noticing that his words had
attracted the attention of his compan-
ions, he apoloigized and explained
that he had been somewhat surprised
TO see the divorce OF his quondam
wife chronicled in the legal intelli-
gence. "She and 1 parted" he said.
in dreamy, retrospective manner,
in August, 1872 this wife with a
| pot-lid determined me to destroy my
Lares and Penates-and two months
afterward she married up in Peoria a
fellow named Tompkins."
Tomkins." said the sec )nd gen.
tleman, with sudden interest
"Tompkins, Peoria, October 1872
was her name Theodosio? Woman
who had limpid blue eyes, and always
had rolling pin under her pillow on
nights the lodge metz" The same.
stranger, the same" Shake, old
pard," said the first speaker; "and
how was she?" She was all my fancy
painted her. replied the second.
but 1 had rival i'm stove-lifter
for which she had to- much affection,
and, in January, 1875. the courts of
Lafayette, Ind, dissolved the bonds
between US. / believe she married
again-some rooster named Green,
heard"
Il am the rooster named Green,
and am glad to make your acqu int
ance. Gentlemen, knew your wife
well for over year, and barring her
vivacity with toasting forks and long,
handled frying pans, better wife
never had. But we parted last De-
cember, as soon as i could get out OF
the doctors hands with a fracture of
the skull. Gn conjunction with dis
cussion concerning getting up TO
light the fire also bootjack.) and ]
thought the fact Of our divorce had
been previously announced"
But said the first speaker, @your
my in. 4,
Green; the last time she was divorced
il was from Brown" Brown?
Brown?" said Mr. Thompkins, reflect
lively; "there was one fellow named
Brown used to tag after her." at
must be the same one" "Gentle-
men," said the first speaker, reflect
lively, "this is most remarkable CO.
incidence. When shall we three meet
again. / don't usually drink after
breakfast, but this is a special occa-
sion and we may, mayn't we?'
So they all went out to the bar
room together to drink success TO
Brown, aud as they stepped up to the
bar they met man who said: ~Gen-
tlemen. 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 walk
ed in diagonally, and said, "See here,
you fellows have got to take bottle
of wine with me. I'm newly y-mar-
ried man; bridegroom rejoicing to
run race, you know; have some
thing?" And 50 he wandered on till,
to get rid OF hirn, they agreed to go
up stairs to the ladies' parlor and be
presented to his newly made bride.
They did so, and 10 and behold she
was their wife!
The situation was sufficiently en-
barr ssing, but the woman didn't
faint, but simply remarked, "Oh. Mr..
Green. glad to neet you: your face
seems familiar to me, Mr.. Tompkins?
Somehow the name seems known to
me, Mr.. Brown. / seem to recollect
your face; any relation to the Browns
of Lafayette, Ind?"
Truly, truth is stranger than fiction.