HOW A WOMAN SHOOTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3138, 19 July 1881, Page 4

HOW A WOMAN SHOOTS.

Recently Dr. John Ruth and his wife gave an exhibition of their wonderful shooting at Brooklyn, N.Y., driving park. Here is how one of the New York dailies closed its account of the exhibition :—" A remarkable exhibition of quickness of shooting and of manipulating the repeating rifle was then given. A glass ball was placed on the ground, and Dr. Ruth fired a bullet into the earth a few inches from it. The concussion sent the ball aboufc eighteen inches in the ah', and before it a&ain touched the grass, the marksman had removed the exploded shell, allowed a full one to be pressed into the space thus made vacant, and broke the ball. This feat he accomplished twice out of foui attempts, and earned a round of hearty applause. Then Mrs Ruth stepped forward again, and levelled the rifle afc a piece of glass about an inch and a half square, which her husband, standing about twenty yards away, held in his fingers at arm's length. The rifle cracked, and the piece of glass shivered into fragments, flew from the Doctor's hand. Then he held between his teeth a piece of pasteboard not much larger than the glass, and turning with his side towards his wife, allowed her to see, perhaps, an inch of it protruding from his mouth. Mrs Ruth raised the rifle, and then, lowering it slightly, said, * I wish you could manage to hold the card pointing down a little more. Your nose gets in the way.' Dr. Ruth hastily lowered the pasteboard as directed, and his wife cut a small piece out of it with a rifle bullet. ' How careful she is,' said the Doctor admiringly, as he held up the card. ' She hit the part furthest from my nose.' "