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Show LILLIAN SMITH AND HER RIFLE. 1 A California Kirl's Marvelous Skill With the Ballard and Winchester. ; At the shooting gallery on South C street last evening, says the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle of the 16th, Miss Lillian Smith gave a private exhibition of her skill with the rifle to the members of the Virginia Gun Club, Nevada Rifle Association Associa-tion and a number of invited guests. The young ladv acquitted herself splendidly in the following difficult shots: First, breaking glass balls sprung from a trap with only a three-foot rise, with Ballard and Winchester rifles ; second; breaking two rotary balls while revolving at a speed of several hundred revolutions a minute, one of them being broken by the fair shootist with her back turned to the target; third, miscellaneous shooting breaking a ball no larger ! than a buckshot, and splitting an ordinary ordi-nary playing card - edgewise stuck in the mouth of a wooden deer, which was swinging at the speed : with which those animals cover the ground while running ; fourth, shooting at the word at three" different targets and making a bullseye on each one of them; fifth, breakingO balls in one minute attached to a swinging swing-ing model of a deer, with a Ballard rifle ; sixth, breaking 20 balls attached to the same swinging deer in 30 seconds with a Winchester rifle. At the end of--this act some of the fragments of the broken balls still clung to tne model wnich Miss Lillian dexterously picked off with bullets from her rifle. The wooden figure of a rabbit, with a bullseye about the size of a buckshot over the heart, was plugged several times in succession by, the fair shootist, which turned oVer. on a pivot every time the bullet rang pie bell. While the rabbit was turnij:i.vhich took less than a second. sec-ond. Miss Lillian planted three bullets in the head of the model at the place where the eye should be located. Another difficult feat performed was the breaking of two glass balls,one sprung from a trap, with only three feet rise, ana the other hung to a target. The hanging ball was broken when the trap was sprung and the ball in motion broken before it reached the floor,, , |