The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-10-03
thou ht Of; and IT was the doggc, untirins and UNI
flnclIns t4naciiy behind wellington's words that
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won The day.
II /. from England We get the bull dog as well as
the sparrow and those who have observed this AMI
maj will need To description of his qualities OF mind
and heart. he Is respecter Of persons ana seid"
pauses 10 make inquiries In regard to an adversary
or even harmless visitors Intentions The lover
singing his woful ballad under the window OF Ms
mistress, s liable to have that animals teeth h1eo IN
the seat Of his pants and II, unhappily, he does De-
come thus embarrassed, he has to wear the dog nome
or leave his pants with him. The animal has nc
appreciation whatever for such MISSIONS and the male
will fight the female With the same ferocity that DC
attacks his own sex.
Then neither the bull dog the sparrow are soci
able In their dispositions have owned bull dogs
aud know them. They ere seldom on speaking terms
with each other, and the English sparrow scorns any
association whatever with those ''to the manner
born" Every Englishman." says Emerson, sis an
island;' and so is the English bull dog and the
English sparrow, except among his ''own set" at
least, al the ladies say.
Il 10 the national Characteristic too, never to abae
their spirit Of conquest and whenever they ind 1t I'M
possible to conquer By means they are ready 10
adopt another. They tried to lick US twice with their
ships and soldiers, but We beat them, and now they
propose to conquer with their capitnl-a conquest
to which wo are all ready to bow our nccks. The
whole Of Big Stone Gap will surrender TO them or TO
our German COUSINS II they will only march against
us. Now, gentlemen, bring the stuff along with you'
and we shall say with the poets
And id DO ne who first cries, Hold cnoughP
But TO return to our mutton, or rather, our spar
row. Over twenty States In the Union have passed
bills OF attaindcr against the newcomers; and,
whom caught, they are to be killed without benefit OF
clergy. They can inherit nothing; they can engage
In no business; they prescribed and prosecuted
tribe In Kansas heavy fine Is imposed for harbor-
ing or feeding them. III Missouri and Minnesota the
law Is hardly less rigid In States price is put
on their heads But the little sparrow, the Anglo
Saxon OF the cahcry Kingdom, conrives to get along
all the same. He IL MS plucky and as happy and as
prosperous az II no indictment pending against
him. You may law him as much az you think proper,
but you can't conquer him.
ried within few weeks They will bring their brides
here and society will be cnvoned and adorned By
several OF tho handsomest, most cultured and aristo-
cratic young ladies Of Virginia and Kentucky. There
arc number of the boys however, who still nnell-
gagged and who ready TO do all the social honors to
lady visitors.
DR.. D. A. Sergeant. Of Harvard University and
director OF the Hemingway Gymnasium, has found a
perfectly formed woman, and she received the prize
over 5000 competitors. Her name Is Miss Marguerite
Blanche Best; she lives ut Mcadvlllc Pa; and II is
said her beauty equals tho excellence Of her form.
She Is just five feet five inches high, and every portion
OF the body Is perfectly developed. Tier flesh, say
the reporters, SIS remarkably firm and white, ana
smooth almost tn sickness" Her eyes, too, are per-
feet, soft, luminous in their deep blue depths, and
rho has wealth OF hair sufficient almost to robe her
exquisite FORM The ladys address Is given, and she
Is unmarried.