The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
= Habit, if not resisted, soon become

uDOb 0it OSNaolOllo NOlOCb VIII.
- Reverence your superior. "Yes''
answered the yankee, but who is he r.
- The miller imagines that the corn
grows only TO make his mill turn.
- There is no such injury as revenge,
and no such revenge as the contempt of
an injury.
- The age of chivalry has gone, and
one of calculators and economists has
succeeded.
- True repentance consists in the
heart being broken for sin, and broken
from sin.
Labor is one of the great clements
of society-tho great substantial interest
on which we all stand.
= Good qualities, like good abilities,
are incomprehensible TO such as are de-
prived of them.
- Take care of all that belongs TO
God, and he will take caro- of all that be-
longs to you.
- Christianity commands us to pass
by injuries; policy, to let them pass by
us.
- 1t is wonderful what moral obliga-
ton things sometimes assume when VIC
wish to do them.
= When an extravagant friend wishes
TO borrow your money, consider which of
the two you had rather lose.
- Cultivate your heart Alright as well
rs your farm; and remember "whatsocv-
or a man sowoth that shall he reap"
"A punster passing by the shop of
Mr.. Taswell, observed that his namo
would be AS-aOeN without the T.
- A business man of our acquaintance
is so scrupulously exact in all his doings
that, whenever he pays visit, he always
will insist upon taking receipt.
- Take the good with tho evil, for yc
all are the pensioners of God, and none
may choose or refuse the cup his wisdom
mixeth.
- Ho that docs not know those things
which are Of use, and necessity for him
to know, is but an ignorant man, whatovr
he may know besides.
"A young woman being asked by q
boring politician, which party she was
most in favor of? she replied that she
preferred wedding party"
= A young lady in the city is so re.
fined in her language that she never uses
the word "blockguard," but substitutes
+" African sentinel"
= The japanese wero astonishcd and
amazed by some waltzing they saw al
Washington, and made some quaint criti-
cism on the ladies dresses.
- The expenses of living in Now York
are said to bo a third higher than in ci-
ther the cities of London or Paris, and
they arc constantly increasing.
- At an agriculturist dinner, some
where, the following toast was given
"The game of fortune--sbufile the cards
as you will, spades will always win"
"A boy was asked one day what
made him so dirty! He replied, al am
made, so 1 am told, of tho dust of the
earth, and l reckon it's just working out.
= Why is beauty like the engine on
a railwayi Because she draws train
after her, scattering the sparks, trans
ports the mails (males) and makes us for
get time and space.
"Pray, Miss c." said gentleman
the other evening, "why are ladies SC
fond of officcrsg' "How stupidp she
replied; is it not natural that lady
should like a good offer, sirg"
= A young fellow having been charg
cd with getting drunk tho night before
and wishing to justify himself, declared
that he never was drunk, nor never meant
to be, for it always made him feel so baC
the next morning.
We sometimes laugh at persons 70
protesting principles with which their con
duct is inconsistent. But we forget tina
the principles which n man feels to b
most necessary, are often the ones which
he finds it hardest to obey.
= A country parson had n singula
popularity of expression, always using
the phrase: 81 flatter myself" insteaC
of az believe" Having occasion to ex
hort his congregation during revival, h
flattered himself that moro than one
half of them would be damned"
= DR.. Johnson was one day dining a
tho house of an English lady, when sh
asked him if he did not think her pud
ding very good?" EYES," growlcd tn
great moralist, "it is very good for hogs
"Shall l help you TO another plateful
then?" asked the polite hostess.
"A worthy but poor minister request
ed loan Of six dollars from the cashic
of bank, and in the note requesting tn
favor he said he would pay in ten days
on the faith Of Abraham. The cashle
returned word that by the rules OF tn
bank, "the cndorser must reside In th
State"