The Republican journal., 1880-09-02
Remarkable Shooting.

or workmanship IN brooklyn, Saturday. Mrs.
Ruth took pistol and evelled it at a glass ball
stuffed with feathers, that hung from cross bar
by piece of string, some twenty yards from her
The attendant had set the ball i'll motion, and as
it swung to and fro the weapon in Mrs Ruths hand
vbrated correspondingly for a few seconds Then
the report rang out the broken glass flew from
the string and a cloud of feathers tluttered into
the arr.
This feat was repeated several times and the
lady then tired at a stationary ball. But here
certain unsteadiness Of the hand observed
and she was less successful although her shooting
in this way on the whole good. Laying aside
the pistol she took up the light rifle and with this
she shattered ten out of fifteen glass balls thrown
into the air by man standing about fifteen yards
from her The balls were not thrown we'll some
OF them descending in such way that mad she hit
them the glass must have fallen upon her face
Several times She lowered her rifle without firing,
and requested the thrOwer to be more careful
She fred at stationary balls, holding the pistol
with the lock toward the ground, and closed the
first portion of her share Of the exhibition by shat
tering several balls in succession with bullet from
the small rifle while she stood with her back to the
mark and took aim with the aid Of looking glass
which she held on her arm. When She missed
her husband fastened to explain how it had hat
pencd, and on the much more frequent occasions
Of her bullet striking the balls he took pains To
conceal his pleasure. He said she could use the
large " lnchester rifle better than the smaller one,
but that 1t was a long range weapon and he feared
Il
through the wooden fence four hundred wards
away, and endanger the lives Of persons passing
along the road. When Mrs Ruth laid aside the
rifle her face was blackcned with powder
1t was then Or Iuths tuu ID show His skill
! levelIlng the pistol al Il stationary ball hc held
the weapon 50 steadily that the keenest eve failed
TO note a vibration and surely as i ball sped
Just so surely glass ball shattered and the
| feathers scattered into the all Then the attend
ant held 4 ball between his thumb and initial fin
hp nptn / alp IN tl1r
center that It fell TO the ground without any seat
terng Of the broken glass This feat he performed
several times, and then he took the short rifle \
ball was thrown into the air and after it had left
! the attendants haud the Doctor whirled his Heap
on around behind his back, recovered it, brought
It with wonderful precision and quckuess 10 his
shoulder, and broke the ball before it reached the
earth. He performed the same feat after turning
completely around while the ball was i'll tho air
but in shooting the tying balls with the pistol he
was less successful breaking only four out OF chir
teen.
Then the Doctor took up the Winchester rifle
remarkable exhibition OF qulCkneSs OF IuauIpu
latlng the repeating ride then given. A glass
ball was placed on the ground and Dr. Ruth fired
a bullet INTO the earth few inches from it, The
concusslon sent the ball about eighteen inches
INTO the air and before it again touched the grass
the marksman had removed the exploded shell,
allowed 4 tnll one to he pressed into the space
thus made vacant, and broken the hail This feat
be accomplished twice out OF four attempts, and
earned a round of hearty applause
Then Mira Ruth stepped forward again, ana level
ed the rifle at piece of glass about inch and
halt square which her husband standing about
twenty yards away, held in hIs fingers at arms
. length. The rifle cracked. and the piece Of
glass. shlyered into small fragments few from
the Doctors hand Then he held between his
teeth piece Of pasteboard not much larger than
the glass that had Just been broken. and turn
ing with has side toward his wife. allowed her to
see. perhaps. inch OF 1t prOtrQufnr from his