The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-05-11
Thrice 0ivorce', Four Times Married.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Three gentlemen happened to NEE,
at breakfast at the Grand Pacific
Hotel one morning last week. They
we're strangers to each oth,r Sud.
denly one broke the silence with the
remark "By Jove She's divorced
again" Noticing that his words had
attracted the attention OF his com.
panions, he apologized and explain.
ed that he had been somewhat sur.
prised TO see the divorce OF bis quon
lam wife chronicled in the legal in-
telligence. "She and parted" ho
said. in dreamy, Retrospective man
ner, Tin August, 1S72-- this wife with
q pot-lid determined mo to destroy
my Lares and Penates and two
months asterward she married up in
Peoria q fellow named Tompkins. "
"Tompkins!" said the second gen
tleman. with a sudden interest
"Tompkins, Peoria, October, lS72--
was her name Theolosia Woman
who had limpid blue eyes and always
had rolling pin under her pillow
on nights the lodge met T. Tho
same, stranger, the same Shake
old pard," sail tho first speaker
"snd how was she 7" "She was all
my fancy painted her." replied tho
second "But I hal rival in u
stove.lifter for which sho hal to-
mnch affection, and in January 1919,
the courts of Lafayette, Ind. dissolv-
ell the bonds between Us. | believo
she married again -sJme rooster
named Green, l heard.
II am the rooster named Green,
and am glad to mako your acquaint-
anco. Gentlemen, | knew your wife
well for over year, and. barring her
vivacity with toasting forks and long
handled frying pans, q better wife
never had. But We parted last De-
cember. as soon a. l could get out
of tho doctors hands with u fracture
OF the skull lin conjunction with
discussion concerning getting up to
light tho fre--also n bootjackl. and
| thought the fact OF our divorce had
been previously announced
But" said tho first speaker "your
name, my companion in divorce. is
Greon tho last tune she was di-
vorced it was from Brown. "Brown
Brown 2 said Mr.. Tompkins, rc.
hccti' ely; "there was one fello,
named Brown used to tag after her.
1t must bs the same one" Gen
'lsmon, said the first speaker re-
lectiyely, this is u most remarkable
coincidence. When shall We three
meet again. | don't usually drink
after breakfast, but this is u special
OCCASION and we my, mayn t wey"
So they all went out to the b,r
room together to drink success to
Brown, and AZ they stepped up to
the bar they met q man who said ::
Gentlemen, this is my treat I've
jnst been divorced aud my name is
Brown, aud I'm going to treat the
house. Give it q nam, aud call for
tue best in the house,"
Ills three friends shook hands
with him solemnly, exchanging three
looks Of intelligence amoug them
selves, when weak-eyed young man
walked in dag gonally, aud said, "See
here, you 'ellers have got to take II
bottle OF wine with mo I'm new
ly.marped man ; bridegroom rejoic.
ing N r,.2 a rJe, you know have
s5iA1tbingi' Aud 80 he wandered
On till, to get rid of him, they agreed
to 60 up to the ladies' parlor aud b.
presented to his newly made bride
They did 10 and 10 aud behold sho
was their wife
The situation was sufficiently em-
barrassing, but tho woman didn't
faint. but simply remarked, "Oh,
Mr.. Green, glad to meet you your
face seems familiar to me, Mr.. Tomp
kins 7 Somehow the name seems
known to me, Mr.. Brown seem
to recollect your face; any relation
to the Browns Of Lafayette, lnd'
Truly, truth is stranger than fc.
ton.