The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
= A boot-jack, like a sore finger, has
TO be heelcd.
= We always did like the "church
going BELLE"
A knitting factory is about to be
started at Oswego, N. Y.
= An exchange calls scrofula the po-
tatoe-rot Of mankind"
= The question is not the number of
facts man knows, but how much Of q
fact he is himself.
- 1t is good sign 10 see the color of
health in mans face. IL is bad sign
to see it all concentrated in his nose.
- Get miscroscope and examine the
insect wonders that make constant mu-
sic for You at this season.
- There were five deaths from sun
stroke in New York on Wednesday Of
last week.
= He chat places himself no higher
nor lower than he ought to do exercises
the truest humility.
= Never confide in n young man
new pals leak. Never tell your secrets to
the aged; old doors seldom shut closely.
= An upholster named Blair, in Al
bany, is making five thousand beds for
the French Army in Italy.
= A few applications of castor oil will
kill any kind Of warts on man or beast,
without soreness.
= An exchange paper says that a
roasted onion bound on the wrist will
stop the toothache in few minutes.
- A gentleman once asked company
of little boys what they were good for
One little fellow promptly answered, " we
arc good to make men Of"
= IL is stated that if an onion be
planted in the same hill with melons or
cucumbcrs, these plants will not be in-
tested by bugs.
= The library of Baron Humboldt,
left as a legacy to his body servant, las
been purchased for 81, 900, by Mr.. Wright,
the American Envoy at Berlin.
- Our latest accounts from the Yer
mont gold regions are, that three Spring
field men opened claim on the 22d ult.,
and washed out So from the surface earth
= A negro, on being examined, was
asked if his master was christian. enc
sir" he's member of Congress" was the
reply.
- An Irishmn having been told the
price of bread had fallen, exclaimed
"This is the first time l ever rejoiced al
the fall Of my best friend"
= An English paper states ;hat e,
sheep gave birth TO lamb in Cambridge
lately, belonging to widow lady wid
SIR legs and tine aoool all over her head
= One OF our agricultural papers dc
clares that the most prevalent diseas'
among the farmcrs-the one most fata
10 our prosperity-is the willingness 4
"seU out"
- The New London Daily Star say
that at tho present time there is not !
single whaler fitting in that port, and il
is said that the business is rapidly declln
ing.
= A Knoxville paper says that wife
in that pcighborhood has had three chill
dren at birth. Her husband is entitled
10 divorce, says Prentice. She Is ave
nv oyer-bearing woman.
"Charlic, my DEAR" said a loving
mother to her hopeful son just budding
into breeches, "Charlie, my dear, come
here and get some candy" "I guess
won't mind itnow, mother" replied Char
lie, "Tve got in some tobacco"
| "A runaway thief having applied Il
. a blacksmith for work, the latter shown,
him some handouts asked if he under
stood such work, "Why, yes sir" said th
other, a. guess I've had hand in 'en
afore."
| - A German in Wheeling, Va, 90
married again after his former wife ha
been dead only week, and he gave a
his reason for il that his first wile's ghos
: haunted him, aud he was afraid 10 slee
alone.