The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-09-23
PEN AND Seasons.

The Editor Of the Waakesha Repu1-
hcan, has been making trip into the
country, and thus pleasantly speaks of the
scenery which greeted his eye;
Whata chapter some disciple Of the
qnill will one day chronicle on the Lakes
of Wisconsin. Everywhere their silver
faces look upward through aspure atmos-
phere, to as bright a sky as ever smiled
upon the earth. Surely the Creators
eye was upon the beautiful when he con
ceived the prairies, groves, lakes and seen
cry of Wisconsin.
A gentleman in Michigan has invented
an attachment to reaping machines, for
the purpose of binding the grain as it is
cut The machine is calculated to weav e
the b, nd from the butt of the bundle lea
virg the heads of the straw which compo-
Sc the band at the end of the bundle
with the rest of the wheat, 1t is calcuIa-
ted to save the labor of eight men.
The crops his year in Kansas were not
as large as were anticipated. If the fall
immigration shouldfA large, Missouri
will have to furnish part of the bread
stuffs for the new country.
1t was maxim of General Jackson's,
''Take time to deliberate; but when the
time of action arrives, stop thinking"
James McGarry, one of the companions
of DR.. Kane on his last Arctic expedition,
died suddenly in Boston on Wednesday
of last week, Of congestion Of the brain.-
Frequent and honorable mention is made
of the deceased in DR.. Kane's Narrative.
Another comet is in sight, and will
soon become visible to the naked eye
So say the astronomers.
The Office of the American Express
Company in Madison was recently robbed
of $4,000 in gold and silver.
VIM. B. Astor, Of New York. pays a
tax of $4,000. Nicholas Longworth, Of
Cincinnati pays $4,000
A man registered, his name as W. F.
Allen, from New England, threw himself
from Table Rock, Niagara Falls, on the
afternoon of the 18th.
The Madison Journal says that Hon.
G. G. WAsHBURNE, NJ G. from that dis
trict, has presented to the State Historical
Society the books which have come to
him as member of Congress. They
number several hundred volumes, many
Of them Of great value.
The Peru Sentinel, says of the Plym-
outh Bank, Indiana: "This is regular
wild cat concern, without body or soul.
"Fresh Leavs5'' is the title Of new
work BY Fanny Fern B. F. Taylor says
of it, owe like these Leaves far better
than the Ferns, little and big that have
preceded then. Their spirit is more gen
ial, not gate SO dashing, but ten times as
earnest and brave. ea @
A Michigan Paper says that cucumber
was left at eur Office measuring five feet
in length. It thinks the cucumber must
have obtained tho ne plus ultra. We
should think it would require the ne plus
ultra of cerdulity to believe the story.
A Catholic Cattle dral, designed to seat
1,5Oopersons, and the altar alone ofwhich
VIII cost $l,4oo, is being erected in Du-
buque, Iowa.
St. Panl is bound to have bridge across
the Mississippi at that point. The City
Council have resolved to subscribe $780,
900. a5g .til
1t is estimated that the decline in the
market values of railroads stocks, within
the last six months, amounts to an agre-
gate of sixty millions Of dollars; and yet
the country is no poorer for It.