The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A pretty face attracts-a good hear
generally secures.

- Olanuer not oJnerS because they
slander you.
= Many live miserably and meauIy
just to die magnifcently and rich.
= He spake well who said that little
graves are the footprints Of angels.
- Not every man who dives into the
sea of matrimony brings up pearl.
- We reason good deal as we eat,
more from necessity than knowledge.
= Those who praise you in the begin
ming will ask favors of you in the end.
- 1t is easier for the generous to for
give than it is for the offender TO ask it,
- The blush of true modesty is like
the soul of rose in the heart of the lily.
- No man can leave better legacy
to the world than well educated family.
= Pride is the first weed to grow in
the human heart, and the last to be erad-
icated.
- Be calm while your adversary frets
and RACES, and YOU can warm yourself at
his fire.
- If you are conscious Of being green,
and don't want people to see it, Try to be
invisible green.
- Young women are never in more
danger of being made slaves than when
men are at their feet.
- To all men the best friend is virtue ;
the best companions are high endeavors
and honorable sentiments.
- Shut not up brood of evil pas
sions in your bosom; like euraged serpents
they will bite their cage.
= A poor fellow sometimes lives only
for his wife, when she would much rath-
er he would die for her.
- Pursuit of pleasure under difficult
ties: Attempting to cat soft mush and
milk out of a jug with knitting needle.
- OF all monarchs, Nature is the most
just in the enactment of laws, and the
most rigorous in Furnishing the violation
of them.
- The types are the menat-arms of
the worlds later and greatest generals,
and whom they receive the leaders COM
mand, their columns make the worlds
heart tremble with enthusiasm or beat
time 10 their marches.
- The dishonest advocate in courts of
law.makes himself the ruthless spoiator
of all peaceful protection; he profancs the
sacredness Of justice under the shadow of
her sanctuary; he breaches the ghastly
doctrines of anarchy in the very temple
of civilization.
- When old Zachariah Fox, the great
merchant of Liverpool, was asked by
what means he contrived TO realize so
large fortune as he possessed, his reply
was, "Friend, " bv one article alone, in
which thou mayest deal too, if thou pleas
cst--ciUiiity."
-" hope you will be able to support
me-" said n young lady, while walking out
one evening with her intended, during a
somewhat slippery state of the sidewalks.
" Why, yes" said the somewhat hesita-
ting swain, "with some little assistance
from your father" There was some con-
fusion, and profound silence.
- What is an editor? An editor is
an individual who reads newspapers,
writes articles on any subject, sets type,
reads proof, works the press, folds and
mails papers, prints jobs, runs on errands,
saws wood, works in the garden, talks 10
all who call, receives blame for hundred
things that are no ones business but his
own, works from 5 A. NJ, to 10 P. NJ,
and gets cheated out of his earnings
Who wouldn't be nm editor!
= A "maiden lady," whose "school
keepin" and age had made sad havoc with
her beauty, said one evening to one of
her little boarders, Now, Johnny, you
get to bed early, and always do so, and
you will be rosy checked and handsome
when you grow up" The little codger
looked up quizzically into her wrinkled
countenance and said, "Well, aunty, |
guess YOU used to sit up late a good deal
when you was young, didn't your
A man in Lacrosse, Wis, a few days
AGO, rushed into the river, swearing that
he would drown himself. When he had
waded in to the depth of his waist, his
wife seized him by the hair, and then, as
the local editor describes il, she led him
back ill they reached a place where the
water was about two feet deep, whore she
pulled him over backwards, soused him
under and pulled him up again. "Drown
yourself-(down he wenD--leave me to
father the brats - another plunge get
drunk-(another ge)-and start for
the river (another plungc)--Tll larn ye
TO leave me a widow, an all the men at
the warp After sozzling him to her
hearts centent, she led him into the house
and closed The door,