The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-11-09
Our Olio,
LADIES wear corsets from instinct-a
love of being squeezed. s.

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A PUSsrER at the point of death, being
advised to eat piece of pullet, declined,
saying he feared it might LAY on his
stomach"
A clergyman, last Sunday, stated in
his sermon that ifsome of our rich men
were to arise from their burying places,
and see the epitaphs upon their tomb
stones, they mould ssear they had been
stuck into tie wrong graues.
A LIE should be trampsed on and ex-
tinguished wherever found. ! am for
fumigating the atmosphere, when | sus-
pect that falsehood, like pestilence, breath
es around me- Carlyle.'
IT is extraordinary how many defects
we can discern in friend after we have
! quarrellsd with him. The same remark
applies to woman upon receiving the
| milton 80 4 rtr~
! No man vas ever known to be drown
ed with a receipt from a printer in his
pocket.
A MAN who don't believe the world is
growing better, says the time may come
when the lion and the lamb shall lie down
thgether, but if it does, the lamb will be
inside Of the lion.
AN exchange says, n little child had
made a stool, no two legs Of which were
of length. While trying in vain to
make it stand upon the floor, be looked
into his mothers face and asked, Does
God see everything Yes, my child
Well replied the son. i guess he will
laugh when be secs this stooi.
Ir is not work that kill. men; It is
worry. Work is health, but you can pnt
more on man than he can bear. 1t is
not the revolution that destroys the mach
inery, but the friction, Fear secretes acids !;
| but love and trust are sweet juices.
On the marriage day of country
| Scotch lass, the youth to whom she WAS
about to be united said to her in tr-
umphant tone, 'weeI, Jenny, haven't 1
been uncoo ceevil?' abiding to the fact
that during their whole courtship he had
never given her kiss. Her quiet reply
was, Gu ay,nan, senselessly ceevil.'
CLASS in the middle Of geography,
stand up. What's pyramid
.. pile of men in q circus, one on top
! of tother.'
Where's EgyptT v
! Nv here it ailwers was
Elougls, sows, L resps, l mows, l
! getsup wood for winter; digs, |. hoe,
and taters grows, and for what 1 kuowes
| | owes the printer 1 do suppose all
knowledge flows right from the printing
press; 50 off goes, in these hers clothes,
io settle up-I guess.
O, IF there is. jewel in the q. human
! character which exce!s in brightness, it is
that spirit Of independence which enable
its possessor at all times, under all circlm-
stances, TO utter his own thoughts, and
lift his head up in favor of all truth and
justice, unmoved by either the frowns or
/ batteries of men. ..-r
I 'WuY do you drive such a pitiful look
ing carcass as that? " by don't you put
q heavier coat Of flesh on him? said a
traveller to sn Irish cart driver. 'Asheav-
Ter coat of flesh! BY the powers the crea-
ture can hardly carry what little, there is
| on him now 49,
EDWARD ENERDTr having been reques-
ted to preside at a meeting in behalf OF
the Indians, and told that the spirit of
Daniel Webster had requested him to do
so, replied, that a very long and ardent
friendship bad existed between himself and
/ Mr.. Webster, and he could not consent
to receive any communication from him
through third party
PLEASE accept a lock of my hair,
said an old bachelor to a widow, handing
her large curl.
| 'Sir, you had better give me the whole
wig 81 a,..,
Madam, you are very biting indeed,
considering your teeth are porcelain.'dl
sWoMEN's rights, women's nonsense,
said Rosa Bonheur on being questioned
as to her feelings on the sutisct. 'Wo-
men should seek to establish their rights
by good and great works, and not bv
conventions. If / had got up Conven-
ton to debate the question of my ability
to paint the Horse Fair for which Eng
land paid me forty thousand francs, thu
decision would have been against me. 1
felt tho power within me to paint, and /
cultivated it, :" ,.2f e~s
The following il funeral sermon late
" preached in Ohio, by a Buckeye cler-
gyman: L have been begged, inportuued,
and entreated to preach this sermon, but
Idon't want to do it.. | never did like
the man ; never knew nothing good Of
hiin. He had horses, and be run them,
he had cocks, and he fit them, have
heard he was occasionally good at fires.--
THE bearers will please remove the BODY,
and sing the following hymn:
"BeIieving, we rejoice
- To see the cuss removed
:, AaoSG the articles announced for sale.
in, an auction, we perceived an article en-.
titled mahogany child's chair The fa-
Their Of this wonderful child must have
been Of the Wood family. 10 !,
ia 14'a gasaE Cos I