The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ory gilds the day.
EE A head that listens to folly in
youth, will hardly be honored in old age.
EE This is not wit which consists not
with wisdom.
EE Death-A knife by which the
ties Of earth are riven.
EE Belle Britain has defined flirta-
ton to be attention without intention.
EE- 1t is stated that Mr.. Dickens
gains by his readings 100000 year.
Ho- The present weather makes the boys
think of the gals, and the gals of the Buffalo
robes.
EE- No less than fifty steam canal
boats will make their appearance on the
Erie canal next summer.
EE- A wife full of truth, innocence
and love, is the prettiest flower man can
wear next TO his heart.
EE He loves you better who strives
to make you good, than he who strives to
please you.
re" Mr.. Charles Cist estimates the
population of Cincinnati at nearly 250,-
600.
EE- Brooklyn is the third or fourth
city in the United States in point of pop
ulation, it being computed at 100000.
RE- Woman-The female of man in
the order of nature, but sometimes the
male in the order of society.
NzS- If we reprove or chnstise before We feel
a painful regret on account of the necessity for
it, the proper season for doing it has not yet
rived.
lss~ An exchange tells n story Of n negro
boy who fell into q hogshcad of molasses and
wonders if Ties licked him when they took him
out.
EE- Profound silence in public as
semblage has been thus neatly described:
One might have heard the stealing of a
pocket handkerchief p
~- Last year the cotton crop of the
South amounted to 3,114,000 bales, and
this year TO ACKNOWLEDGING an in
crease of $4,000 bales.
Es- Have you read my last speech?"
said prosy orator the other day to a
friend. No." replied the person adj
dressed, with shrug, 81 wish TO good
ness had"
EE Sausage lotteries are now fash
ionable amusement at Leavenworth, Kan
sas. One hundred sausages are put up
to be drawn, five of which contain a gold
dollar each.
re-" Of newspaper correspondence,
the Washington Union says, that nine
tenths of all the matter sent from Wash
ington over the wires is either mere idle
speculation or absolutely unimportant.
Eg" The total value of steamers afoat
on the Mississippi and its tributaries is
moro than $60,O00,Oo0, and number as
many as fifteen hundred-more than twice
the steamboat tonnage of England, and
equal to that of all the other parts Of the
world.
E% A sturdy looking man in Cleve-
land, short time since, while busily en-
gagged in cowhiding a dandy who had in
suited his daughter, when asked what he
was doing, replied: "Cutting SWELL"
and continued his amusement without
further interruption.
PEAcE.-Remember that every person,
however low, has rights and feelings. In
all contentious let peace be rather your
object than triumph. Value triumph on
ly as the means Of peace.
WHOLESALE PLUNDERING.-A scamp,
when it was raining, entered the vestibule
of church in Cincinnati, while the lads
and lasses were engaged in choir practice
inside, and carried off forty umbrellas be-
longing to the party.
VALUABLE Housewife most valua-
bic span of carriage horses in the United
States are said to be owned by Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, Of New York. They are
matched horses and cost him 81 900, and
he has been offered $4,000 for them.
A LONG SENTENoE.-John Dillon, re-
Gently convicted at Hastings, Barry coun-
ty, Mich, of the murder of Mrs. Hard
ing, has been sentenced to the State pris-
Oh III ninety -nlhe years. Ills cOunSel IN |
tend making an effort in the Supreme
Court for new trial.
GRITTY.-The wife of well known
citizen of Cincinnati, in relating n pain
full history Of her domestic troubles to the
Police Judge, stated that not single
word Of conversation has passed between
her and her husband for twenty years =
They have lived in the same house to-
gether, and part of the time dined at
the same table.