The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-01
IT BEATS THE BOOMERANG.
A Bullet That Jumps Over Man ar

A Bullet That Jumps Over a Man and
 Hits Him in the Back.
 The man who f1atters himself that he is safe because he is behind house when another man is firing off a gun at the other side had better get rid Of that ridiculous notion once and for all
 For young inventor claims to have discovered a wonderful way of making bullets; and if the new bullet meets with that popularity which it's remark able abilities appear to warrant, 1t won't be quite safe to be in a balloon while an effort is being made to fire down we'll. Tn short. the new bullet will. even if it does only half of what is claimed for it, upset all old-fash- toned notions of the laws governing the flight of proiectiles.
 Arthur Chalk, of Church Place, High street, Mapping, is the young in ventor in question, and he yesterday told Daily Mair' reporter that this new bullet of his would go around cor hers, suddenly shoot up in the air and descend point first on top of town or anything, or fly round and round and then jump back and kill off an enemy at the back of the man who fired it.
 q am but eighteen years of age, said Mr. Chalk, modestly, and am confident that I have invented bullet that will revolutionize fighting. What claim, and am prepared to prove, is that with my bullet can hit an object that is round eorner or on the other side of a block of houses. There is ab- solutely no doubt about the accuracy of the aim. Supposing, now, you wanted to hit something that was round the corner of a mountain.
 When you had found the distance be- tween your gun and the mountain, you
 would fix your bullet to alter its course
 at certain moment. Then you'd fire,
 and the man round the corner would
 be sorry.
 s'Or, say you wanted to hit an ene-
 my's ship lying on the other side of one of your> own That would be the cas- fest thing imaginable. You would just fix your bullet to go straight for bit, then soar upward for while, and then rush down piont first on top of the doomed vessel.
 T tell you, my bullet will go any way and do anything you may want it to, and I've written to the war office to say so.
 'JJp to now the only communication have received in reply is the usual stereotyped acknowledgement; but the patent office people-he did not men tion names-have valued the invention at one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and have told me that it is the most marvellous invention of the pres- ent age.
 q shall wait for a further comn1u- nication from the war office, and if | do not hear from them I shall offer my invention to foreign government. | Of course I would rather the new bull l let became the property of the Eng | fish government, but I want to know soon."
 Mir Chalk is a modest and very ear nest inventor, and when he mentioned l that he had tried one of his bullets in HelQ, ana thdt tae pTOJectlIe, oDeuI- | ent to his wish, had circled in the air about five times and had fallen behind him, he did so with the afr of a young man who is calmly confident that he has thought out a great thing. But | the method by which he alleged he ob- | tains these unusual results, no hint can be extracted from him. That is | the secret he hopes to obtain those one hundred and fifty thousand pounds I from II .nndnn Daily Mail