The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12
CHICAGO DIVORCE FACTS.
The Average Duration Of the Tie he
fore Severance l. Five Years.

The Average Duration Of the Tie He
fore Severance l. rive Years.
From the Chicago Daily News.
In the chambers OF Judge Tuley's court
is a pile Of books about FIVE feet high.
comprising all the notes that venerable tu-
rist has taken during the time he has
been on the bench. Judge Tuley is a very
rapid writer and his notes are very elab-
crate. In some Instances ne has taken
doHn the evidence ia long hand 50 quickly
ana accurately that ne has been able 10
seize disputes between conflicting short
ndnd reporters
Ia regard TO divorces Judge TuIey has
some very interesting memoranda Ina
taxing notes on divorce case the judge
Ildhes II a practice to make mention OF
the cause Of divorce and the length of
time the dissatisfied couDle have been
married. on these pages of his note books
are from twenty To thirty cases to the
page. II Is a remarkable fact that in AZ
most every Instance il the IAngth Of time
the couples have been married be added
toketner and divided by the total number
OF cases on the page. the average will az
most invariably be five years This is the
case throughout. and though the time.
mat married couples have lived together
IN harmony runs all the way from a few
days TO almost half a century in some in
st.T rho s. the average IS five years.
Quest ana mad been living together the
longest that came up before Judge Tulev
was one IN which woman Of g was SUI
ing Tor divorce from her husband who
was Two years her senior The evidence
showed mat the woman had become jeal-
GUS or a So-year-old niece of her husbands
r. 4 ne case came up before me-" said
Judge Tuley, land / was asked to hurry
n, lest one Of the parties die. I replied
Inat L would do nothing to hurry such "a
case, and, while / never have wished for
any ones death. I did hone the Lord would
interfere and take the case off nv hands,
1 ,,ei enough, IN about six months, before
the case came to a final hearing the old
man was called away and / was relieved
OF the disagreeable task of sitting on a
ulgorce case where the Couple had been
I iiollg amicaoly together for almost fifty
In contrast to this the Judge cites many
uses Where the litigants live together
scarcely more than a week In these
cases desertion is-the usual charge,
A Quaint Request.
New York Letter in Philadelphia Press.
PRESIDENT Cleveland, ex-President Har-
rlson, Herman Oelrichs and other men OF
cohsplcuous repute, who are fond of hunt
ing, We're the customers of "a uuafnt irish
man, VINO was a character whom Dickens
would have rejoiced to discover. He had
a little shop in the lower part of the cifv
where he manufactured, often even to The
forging or them, guns for sportsmen He
MADE guns as Huntington painted or Us
ward carved, believing that IL was an art
as well as a trade. The whole enthusia srn
OF MS nature was absorbed In this work
ana MS name stamped upon gun barrel
was perfect guarantee. With men like
Cleveland or Harrison or the late Gen. Ar
thur, ne was on pleasant terms, and James
y carter was one of his best friends This
gunmaker, who deserves a greater fame
than the "Gunmaker of Moscow" died a
few weeks ago. His name was Patrick
Mullins. The Erie Canal had been opened
only a Few years when he came to New
York. The making of guns was not only
his trade, but his life devotion, for he new
er married Yesterday his will was offered
for probate, and to the surprise of his next
of kin It was found that he died possessed
of nearly 800 900. and that he had emulat-
ed Smithson's example by leaving a great
part of 1t for an educational work He
puts a large sum in the hands of the Lord
Mayor of Dublin for the purpose Of pre-
serving the Irish tongue. His will sug-
gests that Of the quaint candymaker who
left a large part of his estate to the Smith
sonian institution. which was authorized
to bestow in the way of a valuable prize
the income OF It upon such scientists as
made discoveries which bore an important
relation TO the progress of civilization