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Hunting Brazilian tigers as practiced by Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill...
Holy relics displayed by three canons during the mass were: a piece of the True Cross, a strip of the linen with which St. Veronica wiped the brow of the Saviour, a fragment of the spear which pierced His side...
Choosing an astronomical symbol for the New Planet is also a problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might...
...purchased by subscriptions from Law School students, alumni, and friends; of Daniel Webster, by Joseph Ames, purchased chiefly by students' subscriptions immediately after Webster's death, and pronounced by Rufus Choate to be the best likeness of Webster he had ever seen; and of Rufus Choate, by T. T. Spear, a little known Boston artist. The walls of the room are literally covered with cartoons of English, French, and American lawyers which appeared in Vanity Fair; they are the gift of the late Professor John C. Gray...
...impressive ceremony on Boston Common tomorrow morning, Governor Allen will present to the West Point Cadets twelve gold spear heads, adorned with the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on one side and that of the United States on the other, as a gift of the State Senate to the United States Military Academy. These spear heads are designed to be used on the company guidons, and are about eight inches long and beautifully designed with an attractice dull finish...