Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-04
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER A MAN AND
HITS HIM IN THE BACK:

A Person VIII Not BE Safe From an Enemy
Standing on the Opposite Side of q House
If the Claims Of a Young English In
ventor Are True.
The man who fiatters 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 oi
that ridiculous notion once and for all
For a young inventor claims to have
discovered a wonderful new way OF
making bullets; and il the new bullet
meets with that popularity which its
remarkable abilities appear to warrant,
it won't be quite safe to be in a bal
loon while an effort is being made to
fire down well. In short, the new
bullet will, even if it does only half of
what is claimed for it, upset all old
fashioned notions of the laws govern
ing the flight of projectiles.
Arthur Chalk of Church Place, High
street, Mapping, is the young inventor
in question, and he yesterday told a
Daily Mail reporter that this new bull
let of his would go around corners,
suddenly shoot up in the air and de-
scend 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.
II am but eighteen years of age"
said Mr.. Chalk, modestly, 'and 1 am
confident that l have invented bullet
that will revolutioniZe fighting. What
l claim, and am prepared to prove, is
that with my bullet car hit an object
that is round corner or on the other
side of block of houses. There is alb
solutely no doubt about the accuracy
of the aim. Supposing, now. you
wanted to hit something that was
round the corner of mountain. When
you had found the distance between
your gun and the mountain you would
fix your bullet to alter it's course at
certain moment. Then you'd fire,
and the man round the corner would
be sorry.
"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
easiest thing imaginable. You would
just fix your bullet to go straight for a
bit, then soar upward for awhile, and
then rush down point first on top of
the doomed vessel
Il 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.
up to now the only communication
l have received in reply is the usual
stereotyped Acknowledgements; but the
patent office people-he did not men,
ton names-have valued the invention
at G150,000 and have told me that it
is the most marvellous invention of the
present age.
Il Shall wait for further commun-
ication from the war office. and if | do
not hear from them | shall offer nv
invention to foreign government. OF
course l would rather the new bullet
became the property of the English
government, but l want to know soon."
Mr. Chalk is a modest and very earn
est inventor, and when he mentioned
that he had tried one of his bullets in a
field, and that the projectile, obedient
to his wish, had circled in the air about
five times and had then fallen behind
him, he did so with the air of young
man who is calmly confident that he
has thought out great thing. But of
the method by which he alleges he OBJ
tains these unusual results, no hint can
be extracted from him. That is the
secret he hopes to obtain those G15O,-
900 from.