River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-03-31
General Items.

pleasant. Charles Buxton.
A YOUNG western poet sent piece to
the paper, beginning, "Reveel, Ibegg.
themadgic spell"
HE Holy Land, too, is changing. A
telegraph station has been established
at Bethlehem.
A PETITION is circulating in Stockton.
Cal, in favor of introducing the study
OF the Irish language in the public
schools.
Ir is said that insanity among the
colored population of the south, very
rare before the war, is now of frequent
occurrence.
AFRICAN diamonds have a brilliant
reputation, but the brightest Jewel in
the British crown is now the African
Garnet--Sir Wolseley.
A CAMBRIDGE girl was treated TO gum
camphor by a schoolmate recently, and
was soon insensible, but an emetic
saved her.
The London Telegraph says that in
that city meats, bread, vegetables and
house rents are dear, but " gin is as
cheap as the devil can desire il to be.
WHEN we read, we fancy we would be
martyrs when we come TO act, we can
not bear a provoking word. Hannah
More.
They who know the truth, say Con
fucius, are not equal to those who re-
we're it, and they who revere it are not
equal To those who find pleasure in it.
EVERY nature must have the sub-soil
ploughing of sorrow, before it can rec
ognize either its present poverty or its
possible wealth--Mdcdondid.
CRoToN LAKE has been stocked with
a supply of salmon trout $4,000 of the
same species have also recently been
deposited in Oneida lake.
A STRIP of beach in front of Chatham,
Mass, which protects large tract of
land, has lost fifty-six acres by the ac-
ton of the sea during the past year.
CINCINNATI people while the long
hours away by seeing who can hold
piece of ice in their mouth the longest,
and donating the wager to the orphan
asylum.
IRIS rather remarkable that, while
several thousand feet are required to
make one rood, single foot, properly
applied, is often sufficient to make one
civil
Two Indian moccasins, in a perfect
state of preservation, have been split
out from the heart of sound pine tree.
four feet in diameter, in Wright county,
Iowa.
MAN is physically as well as meta
physically a thingof shreds and patches.
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors, and mistit from the start.
Emerson.
WORLDLY faces never growso worldly
as at a funeral. They have the same
effect of grating incongruity as the
sound of coarse voice breaking the
solemn silence of night. George Eliot.
CHILDREN's sewing machines are
something new. They stitch, hem and
basic very nicely. Many are now being
used TO prepare Miss Dollie Dumpkin's
wardrobe for summer.
A LEGISLATOR Of foreign extraction
| would find dem all Solomons down
here but found dere vas some aspick
fools here as mineself.
HATE anything that occupies more
time than It is worth / hate to see
load Of band-boxes so along the street,
and | hate 10 see parcel of big words
without anything IN them. -HdziH.
BORROWING TROUBLE
Some of you hurts Won have cured
Al Al H. iii a.
But what torments of grief YOU endured
From evils which never arrived
From ne French
THE taste for emotion may become a
dangerous taste we should be very
cautions how we attempt tosqueeze out
of human life more ecstacy and par
oxysm than il can llord.-Sydney
Smith.
CouNr DE PARIS will shortly appear
before the world as an author. He has
for some time been engaged in writing
an account of the American Civil War.
IL is expected that the work will be
published at an early date, and will be
illustrated with suitable maps and dia-
grams.s
SUssHADEs are in fashion again. The
large affairs are withheld for while,
and now the correct thing is an article
between sunshade and parasol, of
white Cluny lace over white, or black
over purple. Those masculine club
handle affairs, which were worn dang
ling from the waist belt, will not be in
fashion again.
SAID great congregational preacher
To hen You're beautiful creature
The hen Just for that
Laid two eggs IN his hat
And thus did the Hen-ro-ward Beecher
How doth the little Benny b
10 Boston show his power
lie drops er-Simmons in her tea
Aud calls 4 Brahmin sour
THE following is the latest obituary
Here lies Inferred Priscilla Bird,
Who sang on earth TIL sixty-twO,
Now, mp on high. above the Hky.
No doubt she sings like sixty, too.
Another victim Of the Ohio whisky
war
They have ruined me utterly Mary
An the day do nothing but prowl
Aud st mp half the night, dearest Mary,
IN my deHolate bar-roOm and howl.
brooklyn Argus.
Az exhibition of canaries and other
song and cage birds nj the Sydenham