Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-13

From me Chicago Tribune
Three gentlemen happened TO meet at
breakfast at the Grand Pacific hotel one
morning last week. They were strangers TO
each other. All were reading the Trib une,
the remark: 3By Jove! SHE'S divorce
again." Noticing that his words had at
tfacted the attention of his companions, he
apologized and explained that he had been
somewhat surprised TO see the divorce OF his
quondam wife chronicled In the legal intelli-
eence. "She and / parted" he said, In a
o.esiny, retrospective manner, Gin August,
leI2, and two months afterward she married
up In Peoria a fellow named Tompkins."
"Iompkins?" said the second gentleman with
Sudden interest; "Tompkins, Peoria, Octo-
Der, lSI2-was her name Theoiosia? Woman
who had limpid blue eyes and al ways had a
rolling pin under her pillow on nights the
locge met! The same stranger, the same"
shake, old pard." said the first speaker:
land now was she?" She was all my
fancy painto I'd her," replied the seconi.
but 1 had a rival In a stoye-lifter
Tor which she had too much affection,
and in January, 1875, the court OF Lafayette
Ind, dissolved the bonds between US / be-
Iieve she married again-some rooster called
Green, L heard" II am the rooster called
Green, and ana glad 10 make your acquaint-
ance- Gentlemen, L knew your wife well for
over year, and, barring her vivacity with
toastlDg FORKS and 0ng-handled frying pans.
better wife / never had. But We parted
last December, as soon as could get out of
the doctors hands with a fracture OF the
SKULL I'm conjunction with a discussion con-
corning getting up TO light the fire,-also a
boot jack, and thought the fact of our d.
Vorce had been previously announced"
But" said the first speaker, "your name,
my companion in divorce, is Green; the last
Time she was divorced IL was from Brown"
Thrown? Brown" said Mr.. Tompkins, re-
1ectively; There was one fellow named
Brown used 10 tag after her" at
must DE the same one" "Gentlemen,"
said the first speaker, relectively, ssthis
Is most remarkable coincidence. When
shall we three meet again" 1 don't
usually drink after breakfast, but this
Is a special occasion, and we may, mayn't
we?' So they all went out to the bar-room
together TO drink success to Brown, and as
they stepred up to the bar they met a man
who said: "Gentlemen, this is my treat.
Eve just been divorced, and my name is
Brown, and I'm going TO treat the house
Give IL name and call for the best in the
house" His three friends shook hands with
him solemDly, exchanging three looks OF In
telI1gence among themselves, when a weak
eyed young man walked In diagonally and
said: "See here, you fellers have got to take
a bottle OF wine with me. I'm newly mar
rled man; bridegroom rejoicing to run a race;
have something" And so he wandered on
I'LL, 10 get rid of him, they agreed to go ap
stairs To the ladies' parlor aud be presented
10 and behold she was their wife! Tue situa-
tion was sufficiently embarra ssing, but the
woman didn't faint, but simply remarked
"Oh, Mr.. Green, glad TO meet you; your face
seems familiar to me, Mr.. Tompkins? Some
how the name seems known 10 me. Mr..
Brown, seem TO recollect your face; any
relation 10 the Browns OF LAFAYETTE, Iud?"
And SO on. Truly, truth is stranger than
fiction.