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Show SOME CLEVER MARKSMEN. Every one la familiar with the "William "Wil-liam Tell" act. which Is so popular among men who do fancy shooting; but no feat comes up to one with which a Frenchman, French-man, M. Gaston Bordeverry, has been amusing Paris. Taking several repeating carbines and standing ten yards from a piano, he plays, or, to be more correct, he shoots" a complicated selection from 'Cavalleria Rusticana." A quartette sings the accompanying words and the music is concluded In excellent time, with scarcely a wrong note. The piano has, of course, been especially armored to stand this unusual thumping. (.'apt. Hardy, a six-foot cowboy, recently recent-ly gave a remarkable exhibition of his skill In shooting before the Lincoln (Neb.) Gun club. Giving one of the State celebrities celebri-ties a handful of hickory nuts. Hardy asked him to throw them Into the air aa tat as h9 could. Not a single nut escaped es-caped the bullets. Five-cent pieces thrown fifteen feet into the air never came back. Through a card held at arm's length the cowboy sent five bullets as fast as they could be fired. Every shot had passedj through a ring the size of a quarter drawn on the card. But the most thrilling thrill-ing feat followed. Half a dozen hazel nuts were stuck on skewers and placed In the form of a half-circle around a man's head. Then, at a distance of twenty twen-ty paces, in the apace of only ten seconds, sec-onds, six shots were fired. Every nut had been removed in succession, and when the skewers were examined. It was found that they were the same length, showing that Hardy had hit each nut squarely in the mlddie. New York Herald. |