The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-29
Tho Boston Transcript says that the

The Boston Transcript says that the
graves of Samuel Adams and John Ham
cock, two of the signers Of the Declara-
ton of Independence from Massachusetts,,
are in the Grana,y Burial Ground in bos-
ton. without monuments to mark them.
AT the burning of the steamer Montreal
A sub cook of the same, Of the name OF
Lamontagne, wrenched the door OH his
room, and being an expert swimmer, sue
ceeded in saving eight children at differ
emit trips on his door. This youth was
hero.
At the ssDress Reform Convention
recently held at Syracuse, one DR.. Jack
son made speech in favor Of short petit
coats, during which he remarked that
"he had seen 1850 women take off the
long skirts and put on the short skirts
The old reprobate.
Mr.. Henry J. Raymond, who is in
Europe, has written letter to the effect
that the vessels which are to lay the At
lantic telegraph cable, will not be ready
to sail before the 1st or the 10th of Au-
gust, and that it is possible that the entire
expedition may be postponed toanother
season.
DR.. johnson was full Of idyosyncracies
and the following sayingis only type Of
the man sPeople fdck to hear a wo-
man preach, not because she breaches
well, but because she breaches anyhow !:
just as they go to see . dog walk on his
hind legs, though he does not walk on
them as well as man.
Mr.. G. w, Vose, in Chelsea, Mass. was
startled from a sound sleep on the morn
ing of the Fourth, by feeling "nip. on
his ear. He turned and looked at his
pillow, and found imbodded in the feath-
ers a heavy slug, and in the window OPP
posite small hole through which it had
entered. Some patriotrc but careless
'celebrator" had fired it through the win
dow. The escape was narrow one.
We find in the valparaiso Republican
very spicy letter from a Ia " on the sub
ject of using Tobacco in general, and
chewing it in church in particular. Speak
ing Of respectable people using the weed,
she says: "God never designed it for any
such purpose. He always knew there
would be low, beggarly set of creatures,
that would need that stuff, but not you
respectable people," Really, Zantippe
talks quite Socratie.
The faculty of Harvard College, having
been examining the influence and phe-
nomcna of Spiritualism among other
things report, that sit it is the opinion
Of the committee, derived from observa-
ton, thatany connection with Spiritualistic
Circles, 50 called, corr,'cts the morals and
degradcs the intellect We therefore deem
it ourt oiemn duty to warn the community
against this eontaminating influence,
which surely tends to lessen the truth of
man and the purity of woman.
Gerald Massey, the rising, English poet
is about twenty three years old. He was
born in hovel; commenced work in a
silk factory at eight. anc went to London
at the age of fifteen. There he first fell
among books, and with the aid of few
friends he has since educated himself. g.
He has suffered extremely in his short
life. The London Times says that he
has fought his way to the temple gates
sword in hand, Now his name is ranked
with Keats, Burns, Wordsworth and Eli
oft. ~
A yonng limb Of the Law in New York
City, thinking himself insulted by another
gentleman, sent note demanding an
apology, or that he name time, place, and
weapons. The gentleman receiving the
note being one of the .unterrifed, named
9 o'clock next morning, place City Park,
weapons two bottles Of Pop, the strings
being cut, the one who held the bottle
whose cork popped the highest should pay
the shot for the crowd. The one sending
the challenge WAS bound over to keep the
peace. 1885, ~ rs. .....a1.
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Who would have thought it! That
Willis, the respectable Editor, the man Of
fifty years, would write paragraph like
the following. eff I had followed my i'm
pulses while walking in Washington street,
/ should certainly have taken to my heart,
at every few stems some vouno lady. who