Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-03-06 | Page 6 | Plays Plano with Rifle

FLAYS PIAUO "WITH RIFLE. Everybody Is 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. Gaston Bordeverry. has been amusing amus-ing Parts. Taking several repeating carbines car-bines and standing ten yards from a Flano he plays or. to be more correct, be shoots" a complicated selection from "Cavallerla Rusticana." A quartette sing the accompanying words asd the music is concluded In excellent time, witn scarcely a wrong note. The piano has, of course, been especially armored to stand this unusual thumping. ' Capt. Hardy, a six-foot cowboy, recently recent-ly gave a remarkable exhibition of. his r'klll In shooting- before the Uncoln, Neb., Uun club. Giving one of the State celebrities cele-brities a handful of hickorynuts. Hardy asked him to throw them Into the air as fan as he could. Net a single nut escaped es-caped the bullets. Five-cent pieces thrown fifteen feet Into the air never came back. Through & card held f at arm s length the cowboy sent ys bullets as fast as they could be fired. Every shot had passed through a ring the size of a quarter drawn on the card. But the most thrilling feat followed. Half a dozen hasel 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 paces. In the space of ten seconds, six shots were fired. Every nut had been removed In succession, and when the skewers were examined It was found that they wfre the same length, showing that Hardy had hit each nut squarely In the middle. ., -