River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-25
PlTH AND POINT.


1T is easy finding reasons why
other folks should be patient. George
Eliot.
The horse one has had and the wife
one has not yet got are always the most
perfect of their kind.-San Francisco
Wasp
"A society has been formed for the
granting Of premiums for the killing
of animals preying upon the elder
duck.
The Pennsylvania Senate recently
passed bill authorizing the appoint
ment OF women rs physicians in insane
asylums where women are confined.
The song called Columbia. the
Gem of the Ocean. was taken from the
Britishers, who have a song called
''Old England. the Gem of the Ocean. +"
When a strong brain is weighed
with a true heart it seems TO me like
balancing a bubble against a wedge of
gold.-O. W. Holmes.
The late DIR. Chalmers said the
three essentials of happiness were:
Have something TO do, something TO
love and something to hope for. "
If crooked stick is before you,
you need not explain how crooked; lay
a straight one down beside it, and the
work is done. Preach the truth, and
the error will stand abashed in its
presence. -Spurgeon
While the water is quiet the mud
lies at the bottom, but when il is dis
turbed it rises to the top. Every cock
boat can swim in shallow river, but
it must be a strong vessel that ploughs
the troubled ocean. Seeker.
Il love young man who is straight
forward. Ask for what you want. II
you wish TO marry rich mans daugh-
ter or borrow five hundred dollars
from him, ask him for it; il amounts to
the same thing in the end. 1t is al
ways better to astonish a man than it
is TO bore him. -Burdette.
Human nature can not bear idol
airy. 1t enfeebles the judgment of
the idolater, and it rouses the lower
nature of the idolized. When love
outstrips judgment and overpowers
wisdom, it must needs fail TO bring
happiness; for happiness comes mainly
by wisdom in such form as is best
suited to the individual, and to love
beyond reason is to love to ones own
hurt.-Once a Week.
"A member of the Legislature of
Arkansas recently had occasion to
nominate a young lady for the Office of
enrolling clerk. He is reported as
having met the responsibility of his
position in this superb manner: Il
shall not say that the one | name is as
beautiful as the angels are, for ! have
never seen an angel and know not how
beautiful they are, but / will say that
if angels look like the lovely maiden
whose name | put in nomination the
angels are beautiful indeed"
1t was favorite thought and con-
ccit of the classical writer's that men
were divided into three classes: Men,
who themselves knew what they ought
to do; men, who did not themselves
know, but who are willing to learn
from others what they should do; and
men, who neither knew nor would
learn from others what was best for
them to do. If one can not belong to
the choice few who form the first of
these three classes. he ought, at least,
10 see that he does not belong to the
ignoble many who form the third. -
Current Literature
Athens, Ga, has man who rents
rights to court his daughters to tho
youthful SWANS of that neighborhood
at five dollars a head per annum. This
includes lights and fires, repairs ON the
front gate, the bottoming of dismantled
chairs, Sunday evening cake-and-cider
lunches, and strong muzzles for ali the
dogs. There arc six girls under this
particular roof, all OF whom are young,
pretty and amiable, and so none of
them are ever more than twenty-four
hours at "a time without a beau, while
the old man is always provided with
an income sufficient to keep him in to-
bacco. Troy Times.