The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-02-01
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iour character cannot be essential
~ injured except by your own acts.
- Kindness is the golden chain by
which society is bound together.
The Chinese say drunkard's nose
Is lighthouse, warning us Of the little
water that passes underneath.
= Why is loafer in a printing of,;c.
like shade treel Because we arc r Glad
when no leaves.
= A gentleman was hammered ont If
$4,000 in Memphis, last week. bv M
implement called "old sIedge."
= Gen. CAss has given to the Board
of Education Of Detroit lot of land
worth $4,000 for a school house.
= The miser lives poor to dio rich,
and is the mere jailor Of his honse, and
the turnkey Of his wealth.
- Beautiful was the reply of vener-
able man 10 the question, whether he was
still in the laud Of the living p" No, but
| am almost there"
= Provide some other place than the
tool house for your fowls to roost. IL
will save yourself wry face and-dirty
hands.
= There are few who know how 10 be-
idle and innocent, and the very first step
ont of business is usually into vice and
folly.
- A pair Of pretty eyes arc the best
mirrors to shave by. "Yes," said a
crusty old bachelor, "many a man has
been shaved by them"
- The greatest pleasure of life is love;
the greatest treasure is contentment; the
greatest possession is health and the best
medicine is true friend.
- The greater the difficulty, the more
glory in surmounting it; skillful pilots
gain their reputation from storms and
tempests.
- Forty persons have been converted
at Grand Ledge, Eaton County. This
shows that a good work is in progress
there. We hope to see it extended.
- RATHER PERsoNAL.--Tbere is one
reflection which must be consoling to ne
groes--that however reduced their cir
cumstances might be, they were never
known to be without scent.
- The woods adjacent to Norfolk, Vir.
ginia, are. said to be alive with robins.
Suadpities OF tlein are beng KiIIeST anG
brought into market, where thoy find a
ready sale at tbirty-seven and halfcen
per dozen.
- A gentleman on the point of death
opening his eyes and seeing consulta-
ton of three physicians, who were stand
ing close by his side, family exclaimed
4" Gentlemen, if you fire by platoons, it's
all over with me-" and instantly expired.
- How few are content the poor on
w the rich; the rich often envy the poor;
fat people envy the lean; and the lean,
the fat. The brunette wishes she were a
blonde; the blonde desires the raven tress-
es OF the brunette; and so goes the world.
- An inpudent anonymous cores
pondent, signing himself " Ned Bucket"
expresses tho wish that we were dead.
Very well-lct him show himself in per-
son, and we pledge ourselves 10 kick
the bucket" &
- Bad luck is the man with his hands
in his breeches pockets, and a pipe in his
mouth-lookng on TO see how it will
come. Good luck is a man 10 meet diff
culties, his sleeves rolled up, and working
TO make it come out right.
"Mr Tree, if you are about to leave
l shall detain your trunk" exclaimed all
incensed lady to her lodger, who was
slightly in arrears. Whereiorei" asked
Mr.. T., indignantly. "For board" re-
piled the widow.
= The question, "Why printers did
not succeed as we'll as brewors" was an
swcred thus: because printers work for
the head, and brewers for tho stomach,
and where twenty men have stomachs,
but one has brains"
- {" shall be happy" said an oxpir-
ing husband to his wife, who was weeping
most dutifully by the bedside, "if you
will only promise not to marry that object
of my jealousy, your cousin Charles."---
"Make yourself quite easy, love-" said the
expectant widow, 81 am engaged to his
brother"
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