The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-11-20

lNoioibS pioNiSioho ioi shS NuIs---
Planting cannon.
Coquettes are the Zouaves in the TO-
male army Of invasion.
= Men overrate their talents but un-
derrate their influence.
- Poops that won't answer for block
aiding vessels. Nincum'poops.
- The cause of the Southern blockade
black heads and block heads.
= An affecting sight-to see young
man swapping kisses with aprctty girl.
= In ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred, wealth creates more wants than it
supplies.
= Tho discharge of duty at this time
involves the discharge of cannons, rifles
and muskets.
= Happiness grows at our own fire.
sides an is not to be picked in the stran-
gers garden.
= A doctor may learn to cure by kill
ing, but no one ever learned TO tell tho
truth by lying.
- When do we read our own fate in
the book of Nature? When Autumn
turns the leaves.
= An editor out West says, 4" if time
is money, he is willing to exchange lit
tie of his for the hard"
= Do the best you can where you are,
and when that is done you will see an
opening for something better.
= Mrs. Partington says that Ike has
bought horse so spurious that he al
ways goes of in decanter
The editor of paper in Indiana,
wants to know if Western whiskey was
ever seen "comin thro' the rye"
It's vain to struggle against change
and confusion. The whole world is turn
ed upside down every twenty-fouF hours.
- A smilo may be bright while the
heart is sad--the rainbow is beautiful in
the air while beneath is the moaning Of
the sea.
=" There's something touching in
that" as the unprofessional visitor 10 the
battlefield said when the cannon ball
grazed his nose.
- Prentice SAYS the editor of the SIM
Ry South boasts of n visit from the dev-
il. We guess he will return tho visit, and
make pretty long stay.
-"Didu't you warrant that this horse
would not shy before the fire of an enc,
myT "No, moro he won't, 'Tisn't till
after the fire that he SHES"
= The Stars and Stripes waving over
Mulligan's intrenchments was pierced by
forty-one bullets, but not one struck the
Union-a peculiar and favorable omen.
- The tears of beauty are like light
clouds floating over heaven of stars, be
dimming them for moment that they
may shine with greater lustre than be
fore.
-" "Ain't it wicked to rob dis chick
en- roost, Dick r. "Dats great mora
question, Gumbo, and we amt no time
to arguefy it now; hand down another
pullet."
= A writer in the New England
Farmer, speaking of dogs, says: "A'
curse to the Commonwealth, they
stand, in an economical point of view
next to rum!
=" File right" said an officer to hi
company. Bedad," said an Irishmar
who stood near by sharpening his saw
otis me property, aud III be after doin
as | plase wild IT,"
- While his mother lives, man has
one friend on earth who will not desert
him when he is needy. Her affections
flow from pure fountain, and cease on
ly at the ocean of eternity.
= A little girl was one night under
the starry sky, intently medtating upor
the glories of the heavens. AT last
looking up to tho sky, she said: Faith
er, / have been thinking if the wrong side
of heaven is so beautiful, what will the
right side be9"
- A Chinese saloon has just opened
at San Francisco. The bill Of fare is a
follows: Bow-wow soup, 12 cents; bow
WOW pie, @ cents; roasted bow-wow, Is
cents; stews ratified, cents. The lat
ter dish rather bothers us. What j
meant by stews ratifcdi Let us "paws.
- A letter from an Ohio Regimen
says: "To-day the Colonel ordered al
inspection of some hard-bread, or army
crackers, which resulted in condemnins
forty-six barrels out of fifty. The crack
ers wo eat are stamped 1870 and tn
boys say they have seen several marked
sB. c."