The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-01-04
Miscellaneous Items.

- The gentleman whose lips pressed
lady's" " snowy brow" did not catch cold.
- The fisheries of Lake Michigan arc
said to produce $l,5oo,0oo annually.
- An iceberg, ten miles long and very
high, has been lately encountered off Cape
Horn.
- They that laugh at every thing, and
they that fret at every thing, are fools
alike.
- To prevent the smell Of cooking in
house: Have nothing for breakfast, and
warm it over for dinner and supper.
- He is q wise man who learns from
every one; he is powerful who governs his
passions; and he is rich who is contented.
- Tho love that has naught but beau
ty to keep it in good condition, is short
lived and subject to shivering fits.
- There are stone bridges in China,
three and four miles long, and an arch of
the incredible span of six hundred feet.
= There are some grown-up persons
who get reputation for being smart, just
MS some babies do-by being very for
ward.
= Skating clubs arc being formed all
over the country. The ladies are appa-
rently as active as the gentlemen in this
matter.
A married lady in London Co., Va,
is said to weigh five hundred and fifty
thrcc pounds. Her husband is great
iady's man.
= In Mobile, Alabama, the other day
fisherman pulled up half pint bottle.
A crab had got into it, and grown so large
that he could not get out.
= A divine once praying, said: 80
Lord, give us neither poverty or riches;'
and pausing so!emnly a moment, he add
ed, especially poverty"
- The rate of taxation in San Fran
cisco is $3 10 to each 800 of real es-
tate and personal property valuation
The New York rate is 81 20 on the sane
amount.
| - The number of banks in Illinois is
l03. Their present circulation is $S,85l,-
129, secured by $9,957, 900 Of stocks, in
Guiding $4,000 of Michigan rs and
S370,00o of Michigan 6's.
A young lady appeared in male at.
tire in Baltimore, and ono of tho editors
says her disguise was so perfect that she
might have passed for man " had she q
little more modesty."
- A notice of now novel SAYS that
"the style is so brilliant, that the printer
with the copy before him, can set up the
types with out any other light in the dark
est night"
- A fop just returned from CONT
mental tour was asked how he liked the
ruins of Pompei! "Not very well,
was the reply, "they were so dreadfully
out of repair
- Brigham Young, in a recent sermon,
told the Mormons that It was "more im-
portant to raise saints than to raise crops v
No doubt he thinks it the more agreeable
husbandry of the two.
- 1t takes three editors TO start pa
per in New Orleans-one to get killed in
duel, one to die with the yellow fever,
and one to write an obituary of the de-
funct two.
- An Austrian, upon being asked for
q definition of Paradise, said: &" | believe
it to be kingdom where you can travel
backwards and forwards without pass
port"
-" "Acccpt lock of my hair" said
an old bachelor to a widow, handing her
a large curl. Sir, you had better give
me the whole wig" Madam, you bite
hard, but pray don't risk breaking your
beautiful porcelain teeth
Mover be fainthcartcd. Have plcn
ty of pluck, my son. Surprising the
whole world is against you? Never mind
90 in and fight the entire world. The
world is so formed that you arc sure tc
beat it hollow.
- The first vessel navigating lake Erie
under the American flag was the sloor
, Detroit of 20 tons burden, purchased by
the government Of the British North.
West Company in 1906.
- The Scientific american announces
machine for picking geese, the result o.
years labor, and one of the most ingeni.
Gus pieces Of mechanism ever seen. II
not only plucks the feathers, but separates
the long ones from the short ones while
passing through the machine. 1t will
pick forty-five geese per hour, and must
materially affect the price Of feathers.
- The female nose in America is now
the subject of philosophical discussion
A German traveller says of our ladies'
"They can not be called, in general, beau
tiful, because they are apt to be wanting
in that fulnoss Of form which perfect beau
ty requires; and because the majority o
them have long nosesp The HON,
Journal asks, is the length of the Amer
lean nose owing 10 the fact that the sex
!, | in our country docs moi allow itself In u,