The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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= Cultivate the trees-thcy are Gods
messengers.
= Some lazy fellow spells Tennessee
after this fashion: 1Oac.
- Alum or vinegar is good to set col
ors of red, green or yellow.
- The Apple crop of Oregon, the past
year, sold for 100000.
- Mr.. Everett has received, up to the
present time, for the Mount Vernon fund,
the sum of $60,s03,sl.
- A New weekly has just been start
ed in London, on the touch-not, taste not
principle, called A''ti Tobacco Journal.
= The Grand Jury have found n true
bill of indictment against Daniel f. Sick
les for murder.
- The man who feels rich enough to
patronize offee-houses, will generally feel
too poor TO take newspaper.
- The lady who had "spark" in her
eye, has kindled a snatch" without
trouble.
= An old writer has said, there are
but three steps to heaven" out Of self,
into Christ, and into glory"
"You seem TO walk more erect than
usual, my friend" eyes, have been late
ly straightened by circumstances"
- AT a dinner at Springfield, Mass, a
lady sent the following volunteer toast:
Spruce old bachelors the ever green's Of
society"
- 1t is thought TO be quite creditable
to the disciples of Faust, that there is not
printer in The Missouri Penitentiary, and
but one in the Legislature.
- A learned physician has discovered
That sarsaparilla has none of those puri-
flying qualities usually attributed to it,
and that it is useless drug.
- The materials of which happiness is
made, grow spontaneously all around us.
They require but little of us except not
to trample on them.
- Dogs of every kind-settcrs, point
ers, bulls, Newfoundlands, mastiffs and
terriers-are all lap dogs-when they are
drinking.
= The violet grows low, and covers it.
self with its own tears, and Of all flowers
yields the most delicious and fragrant
smell-such is humility.
- How melancholy the moon must
feel when it has enjoyed the fullness Of
prosperity, and got reduced to its last
quarter.
- Thomas De Quincy (report says)
has offered his body, after his death, to
the surgeons for examination, as q contri-
button to physiological science.
= The Indian treaties that have been
ratified by the Senate are of very great
moment. They extinguish the Indian
title to about four-fifths Of the whole Of
the Territory of Washington.
= Mr.. Mills, and English pianist, will
soon appear before an American audience.
Al seven years of age he gave concerts in
London, and was called youthful prod
ICY. He is now barely twenty-one, and
Is sun prodlgy'
A pious old lady was asked why
she named her dog Moreover? "Whyw
said she, putting on her spectaclcs TO find
the place in her bible, "it is bible namc
here: Moreover the dog came and
licked his Sores
-" How is coal this morningl' said
a purchaser to an Irishman who was at
work in the coal yard.
ats as black as the divil, sure" re-
piled Pat.
-" Wonderful things are done nova
days." said Mrs Simmons. "The doctor
has given Flick's boy a new lip from his
cheek" "Ahr said the old lady
"many's the time I've known pair Ia
ken from mine--and no very painful ope-
ration either"
"Buy trunk, Pat" said dealer.
And what for should buy trunk ~
replied Pat. "To put your clothes in"
was the reply "An' 60 Naked" exclaim-
cd Pat. "The divil bit iv itw
- Rarey, the American horse-tamer,
had given four demonstrations" in Brus-
sells, and handled nine horses, one Of them
a very wicked piebald marc, and the gray
savage par 'erccllcacc Of the army, who
had been regularly thrown for eight wears
to be shod.