River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-24
Varieties.

A horse race---C0lts.
Striking Objects Clocks.
! Over production---Twi
Branch houses The florists.
The sign of the cross "A frown.
A nice jam is preferable to an ice jam
Look not upon the swine when it i
bled.
A suitable dover for widow wild
over.
People of settled conviction Prison
ers.
A bill-head- -the bust of Shakes
peare.
An uncomfortable suit Hospital re.
ports.
The first duty on T-Dont forget to
cross it.
The article chiefly sold at most fancy
fairs--The visitor.
Men whose business drives them to the
wall--Bill posters.
Bring in your spring poems before the
fires are dispensed with.
A paper that is always full OF good
points "A paper OF needles.
More men fail TO get rich than fail
after they have become rich.
The Hindoo widow is the only one
that cremates the other remates.
hhen ought mariners to have fruit at
seat When they stem the currents.
Never step on dogs tail, unless the
other end of the dog is mile away from
the tail.
If you want to find out about the pecu
liarities Of geese, consult the best natural
hiss stories.
Over 36000,000 pairs of striped stock
ings were made, soil AMI worn in the
United States last year.
A rich plantation near Charleston, S. c.,
which was once valued at $4,000, was
scld at auction the other day for $25 900
Saith the wise man, go to the ant
thou sluggard." Solomon couldn't have
meant Il e true ant, for the truant is gen
orally a sluggard himself.
a South American has discovered
plant that gives milk, but we don't see
where the fun is to come in, as i: can't
turn around and kick the pail over.
sprightly young lady 81 am AFRAID |
have very large FOOT Polite shop
man-"Large, miss Oh dear no, Miss
We have lots of gents that is, customers
with much larger, Miss"
A boy, at recent examination in an |
English school, was asked who discovered |
II wish may die" aaid
British editor, 'if he didn't answer
Yankee Doodle!'
A country clergyman was good deal
astonished one day by the iollity of the |
and was gfavely told, in explanation,
BLESS you, sir, they're not laughing
only assembling their grief
"Do you know what you are catingl
whispered one of the boarders, as he |
watched his neighbor wrestling with
piece of Ieathery pie. ALAS" sighed !
the martyr, IL know only too we'll lis |
but little faded flour" And he passed |
his plate for another slice.-B0st0n Post.
Old Sam was bitterly predjudiced |
against the bonny Scots. Boswell, his |
bic. rapher and worshiper, observing that !
there was no instance of beggar dying |
OI WduJ III VIC bkItCtS Vi DC |
ieve, sir, you are very right" replied |
Jonson, ''but this does not rise from want |
IF beggars, but from the impossibility of |
starving Scotchman."
When lead pipes become lncrusted with |
'ulphide of lead they may be cleaned in |
his way: Allow hot concentrated sOla
ion of sulphide of sodium to flow through |
me pipes for 10 or 10 minutes. The in
side of the pipes will then appear as if |
coated with gray glaze and water may
then be passed through them free of any
cad.
The Dudley promenade costume has a
special feature, which will prove very
The skirt clears the ground, |
and the train, which is separated from
the skirt Just above the revers with
which it is trimmed Is to be carried on
the arm, leaving both hands at liberty,
80 if our ladies will insist upon trained
street costumes, nothing so convenient
as this style can be suggested for their
enefit.