The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-23

- 1t is less painful to learn in youth
than to be ignorant in age.
He's armed without that's innocent
within.-PoPE.
Purity is the feminine, truth the
masculine, of honor-HARE.
: All men, if they work not as in a
great Taskmaster's eye, will work wrong.
= The man who had cloud upon his
brow has since been mist.
- The Ocean of Love is not always a
Pacific Ocean.
When your lady-loye sends you "to
Pa" You may go tather and fare worse !
-Egotists find the world ugly because
they only see themselves in it.
= Gov. Bingham pardoned SO conyicts
last year.
- Hon. John A. Dix, il is said, is
about TO write the life of Silas Wright.
= Anger, like a hurricane on the ocean,
rolls the heavy surges Of affliction over
the tempest-tossed soul.
A coquettc is said to be an impcr-
feet incarnation of Cupid, as she keeps
her beau, and not her arrows in a quiyer.
- The good heart, the tender feeling,
and the pleasant disposition, make smiles,
love and sum hinc everywhere.
"A grain of truth-the readers of
the Ledger get very little CORN in proper
ton to the amount of Com!
If a gentleman paya visit to wild
ow, he should t1ke a supply of tobacco
with him, because lie finds her in.'va9lro
-.,.o- 80 -nard up for husbands in Pennsyl-
vania, that they sometimes take up with
lawyers.
= An Irishman, being asked if he un-
derstood French, replied: Yes, by the
powers l understand French when one
spakes it in Irish"
The young Queen Of Portugal late
ly asked her husband at dinner, what
wine heprefcred. "Port-you-gal!" was
the reply.
= The Wisconsin Democrat q Ger
man paper, of Manitowoc, hitherto black
republican; has come out on the Demo
cratic side.
= The expenses of living in New York
are said to be third higher than in 9TH
er London or Paris, and they are con-
stantly increasing.
Dow, Jr., says that the reason that
man was created after everything else, was
that if he had been created first he would
have annoyed the Almighty with endless
suggestions of improvement.
Somebody has written a book on
the art of making people happy without
money. On behalf of the editors " in
the known worlf' we offer ten thousand
dollars, in slow note signed by them,
for copy of the precious book.
- Mrs. jenkins complained that the
turkey she had eaten on Christmas, did
not set well.
Probably" said jenkins, "it is not
len twkcy.'
The population of Louisiana, accord
ing TO official returns just made, is 629,-
$50, divided as follows: Free white 3l1,
2l7; free colored 1S,0S5; slaves 300,-
574.
- An ingenious man who desired to
90 from Needham to Boston, but had no
money, made believe that he was the
murderer of Carnely, for whom n reward
was offered, was arrested and taken TO
Boston, where he was Immediately re-
leased as not being the man wanted.
= A preacher, with not much of a
pulpit gift, came into the place of wor-
ship drcnched with rain, and said to
brother who stood by as he shook and
brushed aud wiped his clothes: :" / shall
certainly take cold if I'go into tho pulpit
so wet" "Oh, mop was the reply, "you
are always dry enough thereP
Just ms an auctioneer in Hartford |
was saving "goner p few evenings since
his audience went through the floor into
the cellar, but happily without hurting
one of them. The auctioneer, as soon as
he found his legs, remarked that the acci-
dent would enable him TO sell LOWER
than before, and called for "bid," and
they "bid him good night" This will
balance the case Of shop LIFTING Of the
day before !