The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-14
PEN AND SCISSORS.


George d. Prentice, of the Louis
vile Journal, has joined the Sons of
Temperance.
The Chicago Journo1 has come out in
a neat looking new dress. The Journal
is one of the best papers in the West.
The Chicago Democratic Press and the
Tribune have been consolidated into one
paper, called the Press and Tribune.
The quickest way to square the
circle" is to put a fashionably dressed
woman in an old fashioned box pew.
-"Delirium Tremens' dates back on
ly to the time when dragging and adul-
iteration commenced.
Tie immigration from ireland av-
eragcs at the rate Of lOO,0OO per year.
The st. Paul MIanesotsan defines a
"working Democrat" as Democrat who
can poll the largest number of votes with
the fewest men.
Hon. John p. Hale has been re-
elected y. S. Senator from n. H., for
six years from the 4th of March next.
"A traveller announces as fact that
he once saw people "minding their own
business" This happened at sea the
passengers being too sick to attend to
each others concerns.
The N. Y. Tribune says that sew
ing machines are being made at the rate
of one thousand per week, and are sold
as fast as made.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal,
objects to the five minutes rule in the n.
Y. prayer meetings. He says; ''Imag-
inc, for instance, old Bennett of the Her.
aid, confessing his sins in the ridiculous
space of five minutes"
VIM. II. Russell, the Crimean
correspondent Of the London Times, and
now its Indian correspondent, has a sal
of$1O,OOO per annum and all expenses
paid.
Foley, the Indianny teller who is
now turned s'loase" in his district, says
he 'he did acra that letter, that's a fact,
but they muciloted it most damnably in
publishing it.
Two million two hundred thousand
of the new cents were coined at the Mint
in May, and about four hundred thou
sand old ones were returned.
A telegraph cable weighing five and
a half tons, 1900 yards long, with three
conducting wires, is about to be laid a.
cross the Obi }, from Cairo to the Ken
lucky shore.
Judge T. R. Conrad, of Philadel-
phia, the author of''Jack Cade, " the prize
play written for Edwin Forrest, is dead
Congress after clustering tremen.
duously in regard to vast preparations fol-
vigorous warfare with the "Queen Of
the Seas" upon her favorito clement
merely passed bill to build .fve sloops
of war. The mouse is safely delivered
and tho mountain is doing as we'll as Cal
be expected.
The New York Tribune insists tina
the population Of that city is now 900,
600 souls; that Brooklyn contains be
tween 100000 Rnd 100000, and tina
the other suburbs embrace sufficient t.
raise the whole metropolitan population
to 1880, 900; thus making New Yorl
the second city of the civilized world.
"A couple Of beautiful but fallen girls
arrested at Worcester for taking money
not their own, have the cards of severa
members of Congress, of whom they
speak n enthusiastic almiratic..., nay,n,
passed the winter at the national capitol
1t is sincerely hoped that they didn't fol
low any of these Members home, tina
they are found in Massachusetts,.
The correspondence Of the New
York Tribune says it is fact that Re
puhlicans during the past session Of Con
gress have been very generally excluded
from the Inequalities ofthe White House
Mr.. Collamer, Mr.. Hale and ono or two
others Of the Senate were ON the favored
roll. All the rest weYe on the blacl
list.
Martin Kosta, the Hungarian reft,
| gee who was rescued from the Austrian
authorities in 1853, by Commander In
graham, Of the United States Navy, dice
recently in very INDECENT circumstances
on sugar plantation, near the city Of
| Guatemala.
American talent is receiving sub.
stantial acknowledgment abroad. Prof
Morse is coming home with $50, 900 in
his pocket, the fruit of his Telegraph in
Europe. Hoe has just shipped a mann
moth Press for the London Times
Eaton d Gilbert are making Cars for Gu
ba and Brazil. The Queen of Spain is
hnr;noe har War Steamers I'm Nau YorL .