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This veteran sportsman came to Kansas City 
' i'> 1863. During the war he repaired firearms 
and sharpened swords, but for this labor he was 
poorly paid. It was while he was attending 
business college, shortly after the war, that he 
began hunting. He was persuaded to buy a gun 
by hearing an enthusiastic hunter tell of his ex¬ 
periences. 
Mr. Biederman took his new muzzleloading 
shotgun and went to a lake near Randolph, Mo. 
He said that he killed more ducks on that first 
trip than it was possible for him to carry home 
unassisted. When he returned to the city he 
displayed his game on a dry goods box on Main 
street, near the levee. He found customers 
among those who were passing to and from the 
steamboats. 
“I was so much encouraged with the success 
of my first hunting trip that I have kept it up 
ever since,” Mr. Biederman said. “I am getting 
ready to go duck hunting to-morrow.” 
In spite of his years, this enthusiastic hunter 
has a clear eye and steady hand. He seldom 
returns from a shooting excursion without 
something to show for his skill. 
FISHERMAN FINDS A RARE COIN. 
According to the New York Times, coin 
luthorities in Worcester, Mass., have deter- 
nmed that when J. B. Hamilton, of Springfield, 
paded his back yard, looking for angle worms 
|0 go on a fishing trip, he turned up the equiva- 
ent of $1,500 in one spadeful. Mr. Hamilton’s 
.idd find is an old Roman niece which dates back 
|-t least 2,157 years. 
The piece was found about two feet below the 
urface. It is a large one of pure copper and 
[■ears Latin inscriptions, together with the head 
a Roman with a wreath around the head, 
.arge.sums have been offered for the coin, but 
Hamilton refuses to part with it. The old piece 
ras issued 249 B. C. 
A BIG BUCK. 
One of the largest deer ever seen in Kissimmee 
'as on exhibition at Makinson’s fish house re- 
ently. It was a buck and was killed, by Mr. 
1 B. Bryan at Crabgrass Creek, about forty 
nles east of town. The carcass with the en- 
ails taken out weighed 155 pounds, which was 
robably. not much over two-thirds his weight 
hen alive. He was certainly a fine specimen 
ad attracted a great deal of attention, espec- 
m f rom our northern visitors.—Kissimmee 
alley Gazette. 
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