Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-09
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER A MAN AND
 HITS HIM IN THE BACK.

4 Person Will Not Be safe From an Enemy Standing on the Opposite Side of House If the Claims of Young Engiish In. ventor Are True.
 The man who flatters himself that he IS safe because he is behind house when another map is firing off a gun at the other side, had better get rid of that ridiculous notion once and for all
 For young inYentor claims to have discovered a wonderful new way of making bullets; and If the new bullet meets with that popularity which it's remarkable abilities appear to warrant, it won't be quite safe to be in bal loon while an effort is being made to fire down well In short, the new bullet will, even it it does only half of what is claimed For it, upset all old- fashioned notions of the laws govern ing the flight of pyojectiles.
 Arthur Chalk O. Church Place, High street, Mapping. 1s 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 ID in the air and de- seend point first Vn top of a town or anything, or fly round and round and then jump back aad kill off an enemy at the back of tho man who fired it.
 "I am but eighteen years of age" :" said MT. Chalk, taodestly, "and I am confident that hpye invented a bullet that will revolutionize fighting. What l claim, and am prepared to prove, is that with my bullet 1 can hit an object that is round a corner or on the other side of 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 Af a mountain. When you had found tae distance between your gun and the mountain you would fix your bullet tc alter it's course at certain moment Then you'd fire, and the man roupd the corner would be sorry.
 'Or, say yon 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.
 T tell you, my bullet will go any way and do anything you may want it to, and I've writtSn to the war office to say so.
 up to now the only communication I have received ta reply is the usual stereotyped acknowledgement; but the patent office peoYle-he did not men, ton names-haYe valued the invention at &150,000, and baye told me that it is the most marvellous invention of the present age.
 ssI shall wait for a further commun- ication from the war office, and if I do not hear from them 1 shall offer my invention to a foreign government. Of course I would rather the new bullet became the property of the English government, but want to know soon. "
 MT. Chalk is 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 ob- tains these unusual results, no hint can be extracted from him. That is the secret he hopes to obtain those G150,- 900 from.