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Show Famous Feats of Archery. In the days when the buffalo was found in vast herds on the vestern plains there were Indians who while riding at a gallop, could send an arrow ar-row through a buffalo's body. Remarkable Re-markable as this archery was, it did not equal that reached by the archers of ancient times. It is of record that the MacReas of Gairlock, Scotland, were such skilled archers that they could hit a man at the distance of 500 yards. In 1794 the Turkish ambassador am-bassador at London shot an arrow in a field near that capital 415 yards against the wind. The secretary of the ambassador on hearing the expressions ex-pressions of surprise from the English Eng-lish gentlemen present, said the Sultan Sul-tan had shot 500 yards. This was the greatest performance of modern days, but a pillar standing on a plain near' Constantinople recorded shots ranging rang-ing up to 800 yards. Sir Robert Ains-lie, Ains-lie, British ambassador to the Sublime Sub-lime Porte, recorded that ni 1708 he was present when the Sultan shot an arrow 972 yards. Washington Star. Opposite Cause and Effect. "I have such a poor appetite, doctor." doc-tor." "That's too much rich food." And a good many prayers ought to be blue penciled. Poeta are born and so, for that matter, mat-ter, are all of the other unusual men.1 |