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

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= You had better find out one Of your
own weaknesses than ten of your neigh
bors.
= A sleigh-ride is deprived of more
than half its charm if unacconpanied by
the bells-or at least belle.
= The mutiny in India, during the
year lS57-'5s, cost the British Empire
in round numbers nine and half mill
ions sterling.
- Men, however poor, should never
be slaves. Few men can afford to have
their own carriages--every man can af-
ford to have his own opinion.
: In Kingston, G. W., last Monday
morning, a standard thermometer sus-
pended in the open air, registered forty
three degrees Jelow serol
= A man named Johnson committed
suicide in Hancock county, Indiana, last
Wednesday, by breaking Q hole through
the ice on pond, and crawling under
- Calf skins, tanned bycommon sweet
fern, were exhibited at the last Maine
State fair. They had the appearance of
the best French calf, and were prepared
entire in one week.
= All lovers Of ham and eggs should
provide for the protection of fowls at this
season, and see that they are furnished
with an abundance of the right kind of
food.
- Give the sheep shelter, but make
provision for pure air and plenty of it, if
you would have them healthy. Sheep
thrive best on clean food. Do not let
them trample it under foot.
- An Ohio editor says, "What can
be more captivating than TO see beau
tiful woman, say about four feet eleven
inches high, and eleven feet four inches in
circumference, passing along the aisle just
as divine worship commencesg
- A large hog that was lately butch
cred by Mr.. John Dunning, of Unadilla,
Livingston County, is thought to be the
heaviest ever raised in the State. He
weighed, previous to butcheriDg, 9e5 lbs,
and when dressed 772 TBS. Who can
beat it?
= The publisher of the Erie Bulletin,
which has just suspended, says that the
city of Erie sustains eight breweries, and
about sixty or seventy beer shops and
drinking saloons, but can not give a liv-
ing support to one daily paper.
= Mr. Taylor, of Irvington, N. j., was
cited before magistrate, Wednesday, to
answer to charge of skating On Sunday;
and it appearing that he had skated, not
for amusement, but for his health, he was
fined one dollar and costs for his medi-
cine.
- Mr.. Philip Jesseo, aged l2O years,
died in New Garden, Russell county, Va,
on the lst Of December. A short time
before his death he was able to attend to
his own household affairs, and one day
while in his one hundredth year he cut
and split one hundred rails.
- The schooner VIM. M. Dodge, at
Boston, from Cape Town, Nov. 27, re-
ports the small pox and fever raging there
with great fatality. The Cape Town
Advertiser says that, if proper remedial
measures had been adopted, one thousand
lives would have been saved in the brief
time the epidemic has been raging.
- The cheapest window that ever was
fashioned, if it is barred by spiders webs,
and hung over with carcasses of insects,
so that the sunlight has forgotten to find
its way through, of what use can it be
Now, the church is Gods window; and
if it is so obscured by errors that its light
is darkness, how great is that darkness
- School Missus-" Solon, who made
your
Solon-" Don't know MAN."
School Missus-" Don't Know you
stupid block-headl There's little Johnny
Dixson could tell me in a minute"
Solon-" Well, l sho'ld think he
might he hasn't been made more than
half SO long as l havep
- Col. Hoe, the manufacturer of the
lightning printing press, is about to con-
struct n carriage, to be propelled by steam,
10 travel over any turnpike or good road.
The first is intended for himself, to ride
out and in between his place Of business
and New York. IL is expected that the
carriage and propelling power viii not cost
more than good pair Of horses and
nonnh and travel ovar q fair road ni ihn |