The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-04-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
: Details make the sum of success.

- Query-will leap year give us a for
ward springG
- Leisure for study, thought and so
cal enjoyment, are to be counted rs part
of ones income.
= The best way 10 do ourselves good
is to be doing good to others; the best
way to gather is to scatter.
- Fame is not greatness, but the sbad-
ow which follows greatness. Most peo-
pie prefer the shadow 10 the substance.
- Men will refrain from evil speaking
when their fellow men refrain from evil
hearing.
- Neatness, and its reverse, among
the poor, are almost certain test of their
moral character.
The coat Of q horse is the Gift of
nature. That of an ass is often the work
of tailor.
- Always take the part of an absent
person who is ccnsured in company, so
far as truth and propriety will allow.
Thecurrent coin of life is plain, sound
sense. We derive more substantial and
thriving trade with that than aught else.
= A man who shows any desire TO 90
good is at onco made pack-horse; and
those who cannot use him, call him hyp-
ocrite.
- If the girls would have roses in
their cheeks they must do as the roses do
go TO sleep with the lilies, and get up
with the morning glories.
- Crinoline is wickedly stated to be
the devices by which one-half-and the
better half--of creation compass their
ends.
- Hungarian grape vines are now i'm
ported into New York by the quantity.
II is said that the next Bremen steamer
will bring some thirty thousand.
- A farmer out West, in announcing
his willingness to take wife, says that
he is himself in clover, he has no objec-
ton to take wife in Weeds.
- An Alderman having grown enor-
mously fat while in Office, wag wrote on
his back: Widened at the expense Of
the Corporation"
al wonder, Lucy, how it feels to
kiss one of those horrid creatures with q
moustache" Indeed, l don't know,
but I'm going to get the hearth-broom
and try it."
-" When fellow is too lazy to work" !"
says Sam Slick, "he paints his name over
the door and calls it tavern or groce-
ry, and makes the whole neighborhood rs
lazy as himself"
- On tombstone in a church yard
in Ulster, is the following epitaph: &C.
rected to the memory of John Phillips,
accidentally shot as mark of affection
by his brother.
- A young lady named Peck, fourteen
years of age, residing in Kane county ILL.,,
has attained the respectable weight of
two hundred and two pounds. 1t takes
less than four such Pecks TO make one
bushel.
= The old man looks down, and thinks
of the past. The young man looks up,
and thinks of the future. The child looks
everywhere, and thinks Of nothing. And
there arc great many children in the
world.
Many persons, when they find them
selves in danger Of shipwreck in the voy-
age of life, throw their darling vices over
board, as other mariners their treasures,
only to fish them up again when the storm
is over.
- A poor fellow saws: ain an evil
hour l became addicted to drink. From
that moment l have been going down,
until / have become an outcast, a loafer,
n thing of no account; fit for nothing
but TO be member of Congress"
- A young man of Newbern took his
sweetheart to church the other day to be
married. Arriving at the door, he sent
her in, and stepping off upon some little
pretext, forgot to return. He left her at
once in the church and the lurch.
= One day little girl, about five
years old, heard a preacher Of certain
denomination praying most Justify, till
the roof rang with the strength of bis ap-
plications. Turning to the mother and
beckoning the maternal ear down to q
speaking distance, she whispered: "Moth
or, don't you think that if he lived nearer
God he wouldn't have TO talk so loud p
Such question is worth volume OF
"Elocution in prayer"
"A dervise, walking in his little gar
den looked up, and 10! genii stood be
fore him. am commissioned" said he
"to inform you, oh, dervise, that you ar'
destined TO commit one of three faults
murder, adultery, or drunkenness, but yor
are allowed to choose your offence" The
dervise instantly chose TO be guilty o
, drunkenness, as the least fault Of the
: t1.oo. tbo c,~rsaouanca Uae that while In