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More About Annie Oakley--Note and Comment of Interest to Riflemen.

Miss Annie Oakley, the champion woman wing shot of the world, whose picture The Union published October 29, has severed her connection with Buffalo Bill's Wold West and is now in Berlin, Germany. On November 9 she was to give a private exhi-bition to the press of Berlin and on the 10th an exhibition before the German royal family. Previous to leaving for Germany Miss Oakley was invited to shoot over Sir J. F. Clark's preserves at Shrewsbury, Shrop-shire, where she was a guest of the baronet for a week. Miss Oakley surprised the party by her wonderful shooting in the open field and her kill for the day was the largest but one--in fact, she said she never shot better in her life. The London Even-ning News gives her the following pleasant notice:
By the way, the show, when it winds up its career at Brompton to-night, will lose one of its principal attractions in the person of Miss Annie Oakley, who severs her connection with the Wild West voluntarily. Miss Oakley means to go in for a somewhat prolonged rest, after which we shall probably see her in London again in a different kind of entertainment. This week she goes down to Shropshire to join a shooting and hunting party at the house of a country magnate. Afterwards she intends visiting various places on the Continent. Litlle Sure Shot's personal urbanity, as well as her won-derful skill in her profession, will assure her a warm welcome whenever she may decide to turn her footsteps Londonwards once more Her loss to the Wild West show will be a serious one.