The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
PEN AND SCISSORS.


drama founded on +" Fashion and Folly. y
tits said there are four thousand men
at work in the lead mines Of South West
Missouri.
The Horizon 1rgus, defines fool ssas
a man who gets mad at an editor or sues
him for ibel.'
The widow of HENRY CLAY, is seventy
six years Of age. Her health is reported
to be very poor.
The Providence Journal, says that
Mrs. Cunningham expected to be con-
fined. and is confined-in the Tombs.
An editor received letter in which
weather was spelt wether He said it
was the worst spell of weather he had ey-
er seen.
Campbell, the poet, being begged to
write something original in lady 5 album
said that he had nothing original in him,
except original san.
The July earnings of the Michigan
Southern Railroad, were $3.50, 10 against
$176,o4 same time last year showing
an increase in Jnly 1857 of $13,342.
The total amount of the losses by fire
at Chicago in the year ending May 1st,
1857, was $652,0O0, on which was insu-
rance to the amount of $3s5,1oO.
For half century, it is said, no boat or
ship has passed Mount Vernon, where
lies the illustrious dead, without tollng
the bell while passing the sacred shades.
A new Republican paper is to be star
ted at Superior, A. P. Tyler, Editor
We wish it abundant success. The Re
publicans need an organ in that section
Oh IllO DIdlCs
The assessed valuation of La Crosse,
this year, is according to the Republican
$7o5,285. Pretty well for six year old
town, but the real valuation is doubtless
much greater.
n Illinois n n cows 4bot Jo,.,,, ~
Egypt they 'boxup their religion in the
Fall and never open it until Spring returns.
1t must take to the box early, as none Of
it is ever visible at the Fall election.
The Richmond South, says of Walkers
Lawrence proclamation, ''since the days
of William the Testy, Governor of the an
Gent colony Of Manhattan, such another
document has not issued from mortal
pen"
The StPaul Times, says that the juve
niles of that City, are giving forcible
illustration Of nothing to wear" by going
in swimming near the city. 1t suggests
they be caught and the poem be 'illustra
ted with cuts"
The famous bogus Burdell baby and its
mother Mrs. Anderson, have been taken
from the Bellevue to Barnum's Museum,
where they will be exhibited until public
curiosity is satisfied. Both mother and
child are doing well.
Some one says that life commences
with q S'lying inland ends with a 'laying
out" This was especially the case with
Mrs. Cunninghams bogus baby, which
came near commencing life by being
'slied i'm to small fortune.
A lady in Boston was recently fined SIS
for obstructing the sidewalk by the wear
ing Of enormous hoops. When brought
before the Police Justice, she could not be
squeezed into court and they were obliged
to open the double doors ofthe hall to get
her in.
The Patent Office has received 5000
applications, and issued 1900 patents
within the last six months. The income
of the Office for the same time has been
over SIG, 900, and the expenses, 1nclu-
ding some improvements in the building
&1os, 900.
Prentice, of the LOUISVILLE (Ky,) Joar
nal got off the following good one lately;
The Port Gibson Herald wants to know
" what the poor Indians will do when all
the Bufaloes are extinct" Indeed, we
can't tell. We are afraid they will have
to bear it.
The New York Tribune, speaking Of
the slave trade, says:
"The public are perhaps not aware
that the amount Of capital claiming to
have homo the United States, which is
invested in the trade, is no less than 49,,
ooo,ooo,a and its profits s17,ooo,ooo an
nually.
AUGUSTINE ZARAGoz, the "maid of
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