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Samoans catch flying fish with flaming torches. Eskimos shoot salmon with bows and arrows. Chinese catch whiting with tame cormorants. The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears. Finns catch turbot with horses. Unlike cormorants and bears, Finnish horses do not actually catch the fish, nor are they used for bait. In winter Finnish fishermen use plodding draft horses to haul away their heavy loads of fish from the holes chopped in the roof of the Baltic...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals entered a complaint against Captain Edwyn Sandys Dawes, M. S. H., and Captain Ronald H. Fox, secretary of the hunt, for cruelty to a tame deer. Last week a magistrate heard the case. Prosecutor James Dale Cassels, M. P., charged that Bridget was terrified and trembling from cold when she was rescued. He quoted Captain Fox as saying...
Opinion was that if no agreement was reached, another way would be found to tame Katanga. Failing output reduction, U. S. and English coppermen might get their countries to enact copper tariffs. England is Katanga's best customer...
...neck and make a night of it with important visitors-Little Bob does this duty (see cut). But his chief functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed on the He de France last week the grateful newshawks gave him a fountain pen, gold mounted, suitably inscribed...
Princeton, beaten by Brown last year and the year before, was beaten by Brown again last week, 19 to 7. Of the Big Three, only Harvard, against comparatively feeble opposition from New Hampshire, won a tame victory...