The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
GU r OHIO.


ANGER begins with folly and ends
with repentance.
THE key Of the day, and the lock of
tho night is prayer.
THE most mischeivous liars are those
who keep just on the verge of truth.
If you would not have affection visit
you often, listen at once to what it teach
es.
You will always be reckoned by the
world of nearly tho same character with
those VII SC company you keep.
The best capital that a young man
can start with in life, is industry, good
sense, courage, and the fear of God.
The parent who would train up
child in the way he should go, must 90 in
the way in which he should train ND the
child
If we could read tho secret history of
our enemies, we should find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to dis
arm all our hostility.
As one live coal swiftly whirled in the
ar, Will make complete circles of fire, so
will energy kindle life's dull round into a
finished orbit of light and beauty.
AN article from the pen of Douglas
Jerrold is going the rounds of the press
headed Queen Victoria's ninth baby, by
Douglas Jerrold." 1t can't be possible!
Or tombstone out west is the COM
mon inscription, Prepare to follow me r'
under which wag has written
To follow you I'll not consent.
Until know which way you went
INDEED you are very handsome" said
agentleman to his mistress. "Phoo phoo,"
said she; "you would say so ifyou did not
Think So" "And SO you'd think if I
did not say So"
WHAT more precious offering can be
laid upon the altar of mans heart than
the first love of q pure, earnest and affec-
tomato girl, with an undivided interest
in eight corner lots, and fourteen three
story houses.
Two young Irishmen happened to get
into an atfray, in which one of them was
knocked down. His comrade ran ND to
him, and cried out, "Zounds, Dennis, if
you be dead, can't you spake" I'm
not dead, but spacheless, said tho otter.
THE Brunswick Telegraph tells story,
which 1t says is literally true, of ayCung
widow down on the Kennebeck, who
said to an acquaintance who was endo
Ing with her upon the recent death #
her spouse, Il hope you'll excuse me for
not crying, for the fact is, crying always
makes my nose bleed.
How many rods make a furlong9"
asked a father of his son, fvst urchin as
ne eamo home one night from school.
"Well l don't know" was the reply:
"but l guess you'd think one rod made
an dcher, fyou got such tanning as l
did from old vinegar face this afternoon.
Con HAS written on the flowers that
sweeten the air, on the breeze that rocks
the flowers upon the stem, upon the rain
drop that refreshes the sprig OF moss that
hits ITS head in the desert-has written
upon its deep chambers, upon every pen
ciled sheet that sleepsin the caverns of the
deep, no less than upon the mighty crea-
lures which i've in its light-upon all His
works he hath written, "None iveth for
himselfP'
1HE ceremony of tying the knot is
very much simphfed in the Hoosier State,
SIS the following scene will show.
what Is your name, sir?
Matty.
What Is your name, miss,
Polly.
Matty, do You love Polly'
No mistake.
Polly, do you love Mattyl
Well. reckon.
We'll, then
pronounce you man and wife,
All the days Of your life"
a rAcErIous gentleman, travelling in
the country, on arriving at his lodging
pace IN the evening, was met by the os-
tier whom he thus addressed :-"Boy,ex-
'rlcate that quadruped from the vehicle,
Stsouiate him, devote him an adequate
supply OF nutritious aliment and when
the Aurora OF morn shall again illumine
the oriental horizon, viii reward Won
with pecuniary compensation for your
smiable hospitality" The boy not IN
derst ndlng word, ran into tie house
saying: "msster, here's dutchman rsnt,
to see you"