The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
PEN AND SCISSORS.

- N''AN. f-sAN-~O~S
without shame or the restraints of COM
mon decency.
TO prevent the production of pho
tographic bank notes, the bank of Eng
land now prints its notes on yellow paper
with blue ink, from which Photographic
copies cannot be taken.
Less than an acre Of land in st. Paul
that was purchased in 1s4s at 81 25 was
sold on the End inst, for Slo,55o cash.
Before the hard times the owner had re-
fused $4,000 for the Same lot.
The British steamer Styx, which
made such fuss in the Cuban waters,
took Spanish SLAYER as a prize, with
$4,000 in doubloons on board. The
share of commander Vazey was one third
of this, which accounts for his zeal in
looking for other pirates.
Cincinnati is now the largest horse
market in the United States, and during
one week lately, forty thousand dollars
worth of horses were sold at the various
stables.
Six hundred and seventy ladies have
petitioned the Common Council of De-
troit to take measures to abolish concert
and lager beer saloons.
"A young man named Martin, about
Is years of age, at Calais VT, took his
rifle and deliberately shot two individu-
als. AS an explanation of his conduct,
he said it was because ''they were mean
men,"
old DR.. Lyman Beecher j. described
as being quite feeble; his memory has
signally failed. He hesitates AT plain
words, while all his auditors know what
is wanted; and it is often quite painful to
hear him speak. ss
The Kansas Herald (pro slavery
says that ex-G Governor Stanton is can
didate for the United States Senate from
that Territory when it becomes a state.
Several additional American vessels
of war will, it is said, be Immediately or
dered to the waters of Puget sound, as
well to keep in order as to protect our cit
liens who are focking to the Frazer Riv-
er gold fields.
We are advised from Washington
that the President has taken the precau-
ton to appoint an agent to proceed to
the Frazer River diggings, whose business
it will be to prevent citizens of the Uni
ted States from coming into collision with
the British authorities.
The gold ON Frazer River was first
discovered by an American named Chas.
Adams, who fell a martyr to the discov-
cry, having been shot by bis partne r,
Charles Mcdonald, in controversy about
the gold.
Some of the telegraph stations in
Newfoundland are twenty miles from any
habitable place, and the operators live in
a state of original simplicity. They are
well posted however, in the news of the
day.
The L. G. st. P. & F. r. R. is now
completed and in running order from
Fond du Lac to Oshkosh. The Oshkosh
papers are rejoicing greatly over the COM
pletion Of the Railroad to that city, and
boast on having direct communication
with the rest of the world now.
The Chicago Democrat says: awe
have, in store, in this city, million bush
els of wheat, and this too, right in the
face of an incoming crop"
WIN. Graft, at Wareham Va, has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment at hard labor, for kissing young
lady against her will.
-Prospero, tells Caliban that..h moth
er, s'the foul witch Sycorax," with age
and envy, twas grown into hoop
1t is to be hoped that no such accident as
this will happen to the present genera
ton.
One of the most amusing applica-
tons Of provincialism that we have yet
heard was that of youthful Southerner,
who explained his sum in addition as fol-
lows: "ad dup the fust colyum, set down
tho units, and tote the tens to the nextcol-
YUM"
1t is stated, that, altogether, there
arc between forty and fifty thousand fan
cy birds sold annually in N. Y. City.
The Atlantic Telegraph Gable cost
f1OO per mile. Some 500 miles of it
have been lost.
The London Times declares the
Thames to be the foulest river in the
world.
Tho Detroit Board of Education,
who must be little waggishly inclined,
have adopted as a device for the seal of