The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-22
GU r OHIO.

IT Is not good to live in jest since we
must die in earnest.
LEARNING makes man fit company
for himself as well as for others.
GREAT men lose somewhat of their
greatness, by being near US, ordinary men
gain much.
PoMpEY said he once worked for
man who raised his wages so high
that he could only reach them once in
two years.
Ir IS said that two of trade can new
er agree and vet wo often see two and
even moro Taylors( Taiiors) meet and DO
very friendly.
II THINK our church will last 8 good
many years yet" said waggish deacon
to his minister; II see the sleepers are
very sound"
GRIEF knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can; and common
sufferings are far stronger links than
common joys.
''MY notions about life," says Southey,
''are much the same as they are about
neutrality-suspicious. is a good deal ofamuse-
ment on the road; but after all, one wants
to BIC at rest"
4 KISS, says an ingenious authority, is
Ike the creation, because it is made of no.
thing and is very good. A writer says
of all other things kiss costs less and
gratifes more than anything else.
so YOU would not take me to be
twenty" said young lady to her part
ner, while dancinga polka few evenings
since. "What would you take me for!"
'For better or worse"
A CORRESPONDENT relates that one
morning the past spring, bobolink came
and sang in field near his house. His
little four year old daughter was much
delighted, and asked ;-"What makes he
sing SO sweet, mother! Do he eat Rowers.,
A NOBLE heart will disdain to subsist.
ike drone, upon the honey gathered by
others labor like leech to filch its
food out of the public granary-or like
shark to prey on the lesser fry, but will
one day or another earn its subsistence
Coop men are human suns! They
brighten and warm whenever they pass
Fools count them mad till death wreuches
open foolish eyes. They are not often
sung by poets when they die; but the
hearts they heal and their own peace is
rich reward on earth, aud their place is
high in heaven.
QUEER things sometimes happen even
in Lunatic Asylums. a rough fellow
passing the Worcester, establishment no
ticod at the window an old acquaintance
and bawled out at him him: Hello old
fellow, what are YOU in forin "Voting
for Fillmore, was the prompt reply, The
inquirer sIoped-he had probably done it
himself.
HUMoR OF DIoeESEs.-A hypocritical
scoundreI, in Atheus, inscribed over his
door :-"Let nothing evil entor here"
Diogenes wrote under it, "By what
door does the owner come ina"
Beng asked which was the best hour
for dinner, he replied, 'sFor the rich when
they please: for the poor when they can"
Seeing wicked boy throwing stones
atthe gallows. he remarked, 'sW ell aimed,
boy! YOU will hit the mark at last"
Seeiug scolding wife who had HING
herself on an olive tree, he exclaimed "Oh
that all trees would beor such fruit"
HEN-PERsUADERs.-T The Springfield
Republican, in speaking of pew inven-
ton for hens nest, whereby the eggs
drop. through a trap door, and so deceivees
the hen shat she keeps on laying, is re-
Spousible for the following;
Blobbs met with loss however. with
one of his persuaders. Blobbs had a
lovely Shanghai pullet of boundless ambi-
ton. Blobbs bought persuader, and
bis lovely Shanghai used it. She went
upon her nest in the morning Blobbs
saw her go. and his heart bounded within
him Alas! he never saw her come off
again. At night he visited the persua-
der. In the upper compartment was
handful of feathers, few toe mails and
bill. In tho lower compartment were
three dozen aid eleven eggs! Her deli
cate constitution had been unequal to the
effort, and fired by young ambition she
had laid herself all away.