The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-08-10
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Miscellaneous Items.

- A little girl describes snake as n
'ning 'hat is all tail clear to the head.
- Virtue is not the less venerable for
being out of fashion. - =
= 10 taste of Paradise, all that is noe
ossary is to taste of virtue.
The cholera has made its appear
ance at st. Petersburg, Russia. -
= The public debt of the U. States
on July lst was $64,2e4,ooo. ss e
The Central Park of N. Y. city ia
the lagest city park in the world.
= Great poets are like great noun
talns; they have great many echoes.
Villains. seldom train vines over
cottage doors.
- lie that listens after what people
say of him shall never have any peace.
= More than 1900 hogs were killed
by the falling Of pen-building in Gin
cinnati.
= The State of Maine will have lar
gor hay crop this year than has been
known for some time.
= The Emperor of Austria is one of
the best linguists in the empire. He
speaks thirteen languages perfectly.
The great Victoria Bridge, Montreal,
is to be completed by the first of Novem-
Der next.
-"Sir, how does real estate sell in
your town." "Oh, its cheap as Dirt
Satisfactory, that. &
= He was poetical man who describ-
ed ladies lips as the growing gate-ways
of beans, pork, and potatoes"
Women can easily preserve their
youth; for she who captivates the heart
and understanding never grows old.
= He who would acquire fame, must
not show himself afraid of censure. The
dread of censure is the death of genius.
Sohocles, being asked what injury
he would wish to his enemy, replied "that
he was not loved again"
= Never ridicule old age. It is pour
ing cold water into the bed in the morn
ing where you must sleep at night.
- Catch not too soon at an Office, nor
give too easy way to anger. The one
"A calf, the property of A. w. Bal
ley, of this village, says the Hastings Ban
ner, fell dead from standing in the sun,
recently.
- "How are you getting on?" cried
the captain of a steamboat to the peo-
pie of a submerged town upon the Ohio"
f" Oh, swinaning'y."
: The Admiral of CASTLE said that
he who marries wife and he who goes
to war, must necessarily submit to every
thing that may happen, gslsf
- The Boston Gazette, says that q
lady of his acquaintance says her con-
science is so clear that you can see right
through it. fef
- You can't prevent tho birds Of sad
ness from flying over your head, but you
may prevent them from STOPPING to build
their nests there.
: There's no fragments so precious as
those Of time, and none are so heedlessly
lost by people who cannot make a mo-
ment and yet waste years.
A Cuba paper asserts that rum is
better fertilizer than guano. a great
many "blossoms" are certainly produced
by it, but we never saw any good fruit.
= Any paper can publish the appoint
ments after the coming in Of new ad-
ministration; but what paper in the
world is half large enough to publish half
the DIs-appointments!
- Some genius has conceived the bril-
liant idea TO press all the lawyers into
military service, in case Of war-bc-
cause their "chargos" are SO great no ono
could stand them. s.-,
WHY are sheep tho most disipated
and unfortunate of animalsg Because
they gambol in their youth, frequent the
turf, are very often blacklegs, and are
universally heeced.
- Alta baptism down South, lately,
negro who had been kept under water
longer than he thought agreeable, drew
long breath and exclaimed: Some gen.
tleman lose his niger yet vid his foolish
ness.
New INvENTIoN.--A Yankee has in
vented an eight day clock that runs six
teen days, winds itself up every twenty
four days, stops ticking during prayer
time, gives two quarts ofmilk every night,
does its own churning, and if placed IN
the dining-room, will say grace when the
head of the family is away. Patent right
secured.
Why A SHIP is CALLED "SHE." ga
shin is called she because man knows
not the expense till he gets one-because
they are useless without employment
because thoy look the bost when well rig
ged-because they are upright when 10
stays-because they bring news from
abroad, and carry out news from home"
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