River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-28
Wit and Wisdom.

The travellers motto" Quick
transit gyorio naundi.p That is "sio
WHERE there is much light the shad-
ow is deep. Goethe.
NOBLE discomfort is the path to
Heaven. Y. ". Hiagiason.
A BOOK is a letter to the unknown
friend one has in the world.
A SUPPRESSED resolve will betray it
self in the eyes. 49, George Eliot.
THE ultimate tendency of civiliza-
ton is toward barbarism. Hare.
ALMOST the best rule of life is to be
worthy OF ones self. s. r. Heron.
DEFECT in manners isusualIy the de-
ticiency of fine perceptions. - Emerson.
THE best thing to take before slug.
ing-Breath.
THERE are various stations in life,
but the least desirable is police sta
tion.
DRESSES woven from bamboo fibres
are the latest things for bellies to do
heir bamboozling in.
WHEN does a gardener most resem-
BILE NorvaPs father3 When he weeds
his phlox.
The New Hampshire Agricultural
Society offers a premium for the red
headedest baby exhibited.
To whist players--Should a chimney
sweep trump his partners trick when
ne cannot follow SCOT
GOETHE SAYS: Christ is himself the
one unauswerable proof of Christi
anity.
Do not speak of your happiness to
man less fortunate than YOURSELF
PtUtdrch.
CITIES force growth, and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they
make them artificial = Emerson.
HUSBAND, where shall / get the
ticking for our new feather bed2"
Any place where you can get the
tick.
County MAGIsTRATE-Pr you
are discharged this time with caution;
but If see You here again you'll get
twice as much.
The following is copy of a notice
displayed in field in South London ;
Ladies and gentlemen are requested
not to steal turnips. Other persons,
if detected, Will be prosecuted"
THERE is said TO be man in Cincin-
matt who is in possession of such
powerful memory that he is employed
by the Humane Society TO remember
the poor.
AN Irishman seeing ship very
heavily laden, and scarcely above the
water's edge, exclaimed: upon my
soul if the river was but little
higher, the ship would go to the bot
tom"
JOHN III. WILLIAM is the name of
new humorist. He writes under the
nom de plume of "B. Dadd," and for
that reason they let him father all the
funny things in the Norristown penn
Herald.
A LADY had several hundred dollars
worth of point lace clipped off her
clothing by EN- adroit thief, while she
was in church, singing "Strip me Of
the robe OF pride and clothe me in hui
mility."
TALLEYRANp being bothered on one
occasion by n man who squInted aw-
fully, with several importunate ques-
tions concerning his leg, recently
broken, replied ut is quite crooked,
as gOu sec"
How earthly old people become
moldy as the grave. Their wisdom
smacks of the earth; there is no fores
taste of Immortality in it. They re.
mind one of earth.worms and mole
crickets. -7horcdu.
The near-sighted hen that ate save
dust, supposing il TO be corn meal, then
went and laid nest full of bureau
knobs, set on them three weeks, and
Matched out complete set of parlor
furniture, was a pretty fair hen.
ATTRACTION acts on all and at all dis
lance. To feel repulsion we must be
very near. IL is a petty and personal
feeling; or at the best, is the protest
of natural aiiinites against unsought
proximity. LoOeH
THE captain of San Francisco
steamboat is exceedingly popula with
the ladies because he always puts back
TO his wharf, il by the aid of a powerful
field. glass he can discern female who
has arrived half an hour after the
starting time.
SPEAKING truth is like writing fair,
and comes only by practice; it is less
a matter Of will than of habit; and l
doubt il anything can be trivial which
permits the practice and formation of
such habit. RuskiR.
AFTER these two noble fruits of
friendship, peace in the affections, and
support of the judgment, followeth the
last fruit, which is, like the pome-
granate, full of many kernals. ! mean
aid and bearing part in all actions
and occasions. - Lord Bdcnn.
IF we Judge from history, of what is
the book OF glory composedl Are not
is leaves dead mems skin--its letters
stamped in human blood--its golden
clasps the pillage of nationsl IL is IL
Illuminated with tears and broken hearts.
--Douglds Jerrotd.
SCENE in a Cincinnati Court (charge,
assault upon a housekeeper).- -" Did
You ever ask to marry her " " Yes. "
% WI Al did Won saw - NI told her