The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-12-09
PEN AND SCISSORS.


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Prof. E. G. Stowe, husband of Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" is talked of as the successor
of Mr.. Banks in Congress, from Massa-
chusetts.
The Lake City Tribune says that
the whisky dealers have not yet been able
to obtain a foot-hold in that thriving town,
and that Temperance and Prohibition is
the sentiment of the people.
Superior has a population of nearly
three thousand.
Among the Mormons, boys of ten
and twelve years of age, are enrolled in
military bands, called the Hope of Israel.
"A young widow who edits a paper
in neighboring State, says-"we don't
look as well as usual to-day, on account of
the non-arriyal of the mails"
The value Of taxable property in
New Orleans is 100000, 900.
In Pennsylvania they propose to
abolish all bank notes below $25.
In Mr.. Everett's New York Aeri-
cultural Address there is one sentence of
fifty-eight lines without single period.
But he does not come up to Choatc, who
has three pages of his Webster Grafton
without pause.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser states that the London Insurance
Company paid Wells, Eargo & Co. $3.50,
600. the amount Of insurance on their
specie lott in the Central America, within
three hours after notification of the loss.
1t is said that an ingenious Yankee
has invented a machine by which he can
tell when he has become sufficiently drunk.
He calls it q tuddleometer, and it operates
by giving fellow sharp punch in the
ribs the moment he has got bricks enough
in his hat.
There is clerk who has been in the
New York Post Office for forty years.
He formerly carried the Southern mail in
a bag under his arm across the river to
Jersey City, The same mail now amounts
to ten thousand pounds daily.
"A western paper has discovered some
grass from the ''path of rectitude.' We
fear that path must be sadly overgrown
with grass, it is so title travelled now-a-
days.
The great English steamer Leyia-
than is painted in red lead, up to the 20
#. line, copper color for Is feet higher,
and the remaining 80 feet black. The sur
face, inside and outside, to be painted, is
more than pa acres
The Masonic Order in the U. S.
numbers some 100000 members.
-Dobbs is strong believer in guar
dian angels. IF it were not for them, he
asks, what would keep people from roll
ing out Of bed when they are asleep
john Thompson, the famous Wall
Street Broker Il Bank Note Reporter, is
now engaged in the manufacture of candles
from the breckenridge Coal Oil.
At down-east Lyceum, they have
been discussing the question Whether a
big man can ache harder than little one.
Prentice gets off a pleasant thing in
regard to the visit Of Mackay, the English
poet, to this country. He says: "Dr.
Mackay, as is universally known, is the
author of There's a good time coming.
There seems to be a very general regret
that he didn't bring it with him.
A singular marriage lately took place
in Wilkes county, N. G. A man named
Holloway married bis stepmqther, the
second wife, the widow of bis own father
She had six children, three of them by his
father, and three by himself; and having
nine children of his own, the couple set
up housekeeping with fifteen children.
The man that ran the fork Of a road
into his eye has gone to. that bourne from
" hence no traveller returns.