Show HIS SHOT WAS A BULLS EYE dut ile he explain that ile he painted the target after firing A new york broker br who is well known on the stock exchange for his proclivities as a practical joker made baade considerable fun for some of his associates a few days ago lie is sojourn ing in the country at the present and dispensing hospitalities to a number of hn his comrades he is rated among them as a particularly bad marksman and so it was says rays the new york herald that when ho took numbers of them around back of the barn one morning and showed them a target painted on the back of the barn bam and a bullet im bedded in the very center of the bullseye bulls eye the first inquiry was who fired the shot 1 I fired it and from a distance of two hundred bundred yards too was his earnest reply ohl oh rats rats come off now Y you could not hit the barn bam at that distance but he persisted in his assertion and finally suggested that perhaps some of his friends would like to bet on it ile ho got two bets one for a dinner dimier for them the crowd and another for a case of cham r ile he then brought out two witnesses who solemnly declared that they had seen the shot fired by him bim from a distance hundred yards arid and from a rifle the witnesses were beyond suspicion and the bets were paid during the jubilee that followed abi broker brok er confes confessed Ged that he had painted paint pain edL teI the target on tho the burn barn after he ad fired the shot |