River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-15
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tor two, and toe much Tor three.
Many men employ their first years
30 as to make their last miserable.
Faith builds the bridge OF prayer
that spans the chasm of human need.
Let no one overload you with favors:
yeu viii find it an insufferable burden.
Oleomargarine, despite its high
sounding name, is butter fraud after
all.
Gratitude is fruit of great cultiva-
ton and not to be found among gross
people.
1t is with happiness as with watches;
the less complicated the less easily de-
ranged.
Gentlemen's patent leather shoes,
with silk tops, cost only $18 a pair In
New York.
Great deeds need to betested by their
spirit. There can be no saintliness
without humility.
There are more fools than sages; and
among the sages there is more folly
than wisdom.
The loss of a hand was one of the
penal mutilations enacted by William
the Conqueror.
1t is within the last two centuries that
the first attempt vas made in Europe
to establish quarantine.
Never does a man portray his own
character more wildly than in his man
ner of portraying anotner's.
Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York,
is seriously i'll of pneumonia, at his
home at jamestown.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others judge
us by what we have already done.
We do love beauty at first sight, and
we do cease to love it if it is not ac-
companied by amiable qualities.
Cardinal McCloskey is physically the
thinnest of the sixty five Cardinals, but
intellectually one of the ablest.
Commander Terry, of the navy,
brother of Major General Terry, died
in Colorado, of consumption.
The return of sunshine brings re-
turn of courage in farming and bust
ness circles, The effect is magical.
The young lady who did not sport a
rubber circular last week was not
dressed in the ''height of fashion,"
Instruction does not prevent waste
of time or mistakes; and mistakes
themselves are often the best teachers
of all.
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustable
wealth of nature. She shows us only
surfaces, but she is millions of fathoms
deep.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has sailed for
Europe with an invalid daughter, for
whose health a sea voyage was pre-
scribed.
Mrs. Horatio Bunhard, wife of the
director of the United States mint, who
has been seriously i'll for some time, is
now recovering.
Senator Bayard's wife, who has long
been an invalid, IS now at Warm
Springs, Va, where her health has
been much benefited.
Bismarck has been invited by the
German emperor to act as sponsor for
his great-grandson, the infant son OF
Prince William of Prussia.
One ancient Mexican penalty was to
have the hair cut at some public place;
and during medieval times in Eur, pc
cutting the hair was enacted as q pun
ishment.
Mrs. Langtry is making conquer
ing tour as an actress through Great
Britain, and is appearing in a round OF
characters. She will return wealthy
woman to London.
1t is said of the wives of a Zulu king
that they were never permitted to stand
up while their lord and master was in
the house, but moved about on then
hands and knees.
In the Chinese famine in 1875 some
of the inhabitants ate the thatch from
their cottages. A statement hardly tc
be understood that some of them at
tackled red slate-stone.
The Rhode Island legislature has ap.
propriated $40 600 for a statue of the
late General Burnside, in Providence
when the popular subscription shall
reach $4,000.
Miss Ada L. Howard has resigned as
president of Wellesley College, M IS.
and has accepted q position as lady
principal of the Foster School at Cliff
ton Springs, New York.
United States Senator and Mrs. Nc.
Pherson, of New Jersey, sailed for Eu
rope Saturday. The Senator has just
secured judgement against the New
York Herald for S. 900 for libel, and
is now going abroad to squander it.
The much-abused dragon flies are
perfectly harmless to human beings
they neither bite or sting, but destroy
vast quantities of mosquitoes, flies and
other insects. They can be brought
into the house to catch flies and mos
quitoes, which duty they perform i
unmolested. While in the lave state
they perform the same good work.
Mallock, who tried to answer the
question, "Is Life Worth Living?" anG
failed, and then wrote Romance o
the Nineteenth Century," has produced
another book. The title is "Socia
Equality; a Study of Missing Sci
ence."
DIR. Pusey, the celebrated English
theologian, will attain his SD year il
August. In spite of his advanced age
he is very well, and is still giving three
lectures a week at Oxford University
where he has been professor for many
years.
Verment's poetess, Mrs. Julia G. r
Dorr, whose legendary poems have
| gained for her public name, lives il
a very pleasant way at "The Naples.
in Rutland, W. Her dwelling place il
a frame cottage on green slope, will
the peaks of Kilington and Pico no
| far away.
A recent London letter says: "Ther'
probably never were so many Amer
cans in London at this time of year a
may be found there at the presen
moment. The stores which happen tC
be best known to American visitors are
crowded, and the hotels which they
patronize are packed to the roof"
Lieutenant Hewitt, of the Twenty
second United States Infantry, who diet
last week at San Antonio, Tex. wa
married few hours previously 70 til,
| eldest daughter of Colonel Blantor
Duncan, who is herself in bad health
| and not expected TO live.
Chief Justice Wait and Justice Gray
of the United States supreme court
General Sherman, and one or two 9th
ers, will take a trip to Yellowstone
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