The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-09-23
GU r OHIO.

troubles are IKE DaDles tney only grow
bigger by nursing.
We believe that where religion has
been the mother of wealth, the child has
generally devoured the parent.
He who has a reputation to maintain
has rayenous wild beast in his house,
which he must constantly feed, or it will
feed upon him.
a MAN being sympathized with on nc
count of his wife's running away said !;
don't pity me until she comes back home
again"
Six of the most beautiful names in the
English begin with III, which is just
little breath; heart hope and home,
hearth, happiness and heaven
A MAN who puts aside his religion be-
cause he is going into society, resembles
person taking off his shoes because he is
about to walk on thorns.
A LOVER has been pithily described as
man who, in his anxiety to obtain pos
session of another has lost possession of
himself.
LORD Stanford told Moore that Lady
Caroline Lamb, in a moment of passion,
had knocked down one of her pages with
Z stool. "Welr' said the poet, lit is
nothing uncommon for literary lady to
double down a page"
IT is a melancholy spectacle when the
heart grows black as the hair grows white
and the faculties decay. 1t may truly be
said of some old men that malignity sits
and boots amid the ruins of their intellect
ike an owl in n hollow tree.
The mind has no kitchen to do its dir
ty work in, while the parlor remains clean.
The guile, crafty, dishonest advantage,
the equivocal promise and unequivocal
neglect of them, which characterixes po-
htical action, will equally characterize
private action.
BRowN is married man. 4 few
days since he thought of taking a trip to
Paris. One of his friends meeting him
n the street inquired-"Well, Brown my
boy, when are you off," $40 morrow"
"Do you take your wife with you p
"Noi it is voyage of pleasure"
WHEN DR.. H--and Lawyer A
-wero walking arm in arm, wag
esid 10 friend: 'those two are Just equal
to one highwayman. ''why" was the re-
spouse.
Because it is q lawyer and doctor
your money or your life"
A FELLOW stole saw, and on his trial
told the Judge he only took it in joke.
How far did you carry itl'' asked the
Judge.
1.-TWO miles answered the prisoner,
"Ah, that's carrying the joke too farw
remarked tie Judge, and the prisoner
got three months unrequited labor.
FRED. the prince of wags, was getting
homo rather late, and q little happy when
passing q dark alley, huge two listed
sOho" SNNBESN Cut cOlISN Nv TUG OOi-
lar, and demanded his money, "Money!
/ have none; but if you hold on mo-
ment | will give You my note for forty
days"
A MERCHANT was the other day repro
wing the keeper of a low groggery for
his disreputable mode of obtaining a liv-
ing.
81 get my living rs respectable as YOU
do said the rumseller. don 4 YOU live
by your bargainsl
''Yes.'
"Well so do ], by my bar gaia,i''
A MATTER-offact contemporary-one of
those precise persons, who as Jean Paul
SAYS would Determine the course of a
thought by compass, and the heart of
girl by comic sections-wants an answer to
the following question:
'When sorrow has lost its traces. what
has become of the rest of tho harness? e.
We viii answer the query if he'll tell us
whether when sffiiction tris the .reins-
hey hold OF braski