The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-09-22
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A FLORAL sentiment-If you wish fol
"hearts ease never look to "marry gold
What is the difference between a ship
and hen? The hen lays one egg, and
the ship lays to.
If petticoat government is not more
oppressive now than formoly, it is at
least double in extent.
"TvE three cents left" said loafer,
$50 will buy paper with it, "What
paper!" "a paper of tobacco" replied
she loafsr.
As they who for every slight sickness
take physic to repair their health do rath-
or impair it, so they who for every triht
are eager to vindicate their character dc
rather weaken it.
AN old woman was praising in rather
enthusiastic terms, the sermon of a Scotch
minister, who had acquired a great name
for depth and sublimity. The suspicious
of her anditress were little reused, and
so she ventured to propose a question TO
her; ''Well, Jenny, do you understand
HIM? understand him. holding up
her hands in astonishment ut the ques-
ton ;-''me understand him. wad | hae
thePresumption"'
AS George III was once walking on
the quarter deck of q man-ot-war, with
his hat on, a sailor asked his messmate
''who that fellow was who did not dousc
his peak to the admiral!" "Why its the
king" 'Why king or no king" retort-
ell the other, she's an unmanncrly dog
why, where should he learn manners,
replied Jack, he was never outside of land
in his life.
"YoU have lost your baby I hear" re-
marked one gentleman to another eyes
poor little thing. it was only five months
old. We did all we could for it. We
had foar doctors, blistered its head and
feet, put mustard poultices all over it, gave
it nine caIomel powders, leechcd its tenn
pies, had it bled, and gave it all sorts of
medicines, and vet after a weeks illness,
lie died" Strange.
TRE for day, l besseech you, to pre-
serve Yourself in an easy and cheerful
frame of mind. Be but for one dav, in
stead of fre-worshipper of passion, the
sun worshipper of clear self possession,
and compare the Gay in which you have
rooted out the weed of dissatisfaction with
that on which you have allowed it to
grow up; and you will find your heart
open TO every good motive, your whole
life strengthened, and your breast armed
with a panoply against every trick of fate !;
truly YOU will wonder at Your own i'm
provement.-Jean Paul Richter.
CHILDREN may teach us one blessed
one enviable art-the art of being easily
happy. Kind nature has given to them
that useful power of accommodation to
circumstances which compensates for ex-
ternal disadvantages, and it is only bv
lnludlcious management that it is lost.
Give him but moderate portion of food
aud kindness, aud the PEASANTS child is
happier than the dukes; free from artifi-
cial wants, unsatiated by Indulgence, all
nature ministers to his pleasure; lie can
carve out felicity from bit of hazel twic,
or fish for it successfully in a puddle. |
love to hear the boisterous joy of a troop
of ragged urchins, whose cheap play
things are nothing more than mud, snow
sticks. or oyster cells; or to watch the
quiet enjoyment of half clothed, half
washed fellow of four or FIVE years old,
who sits with a large rusty knife, and a
lump of bread and bacon, at his fathers
door, and might move tbs envy of an
alderman.