Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-11
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER MAN AND
 HITS HIM IN THE BACK.

4 Person HNili Not Re Safe From an Enemy
 Standing on the Opposite Side of House
 If the Claims of a Young English In.
 vcnfor Are True,
 The man who fiatters himself that he is safe because he is behind a 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 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 5 loon while an effJrt is being made to fire down a well In short, the new bullet will, even i it does only half of what is claimed for it, upset all old fashioned notions of the laws govern ing the flight of peojectiles.
 Arthur Chalk O. Church Place, High street, Mapping, B the young inventor in question, and he yesterday told 3Daily Mail reportar that this new bull let of his would go around corners, suddenly shoot up in the air and de- |scend point first 9n top of a town or anything, or fly round and round and then jump back [ nd kill off an enemy Ut the back of thh man who fired it. C 'I am but eigLteen years of age" said MT Chalk, i1odestly, "and I am confident that I h3ve invented a bullet that will revoluti3nize fighting. What l claim, and am prepared to prove, is that with my bullgt I can hit an object that is round a c9rner or on the other side of block of houses. There is ab- solutely no doubt about the accuracy of the aim. Su 3posing, now, you wanted to hit something that was round the corner af a mountain. When you had found le distance between your gun and the mountain you would fix your bullet tt alter it's course at a certain moment Then you'd fire, and the man rouqd the corner would be sorry.
 "Or, say you wanted to hit an ene- my's5ship lying CT the other side of one of your own That would be the easiest thing iala asinable. You would just fix your buileE to go straight for a bit, then soar uprtard for awhile, and then rush down Joint first on top of the doomed vessel.
 T tell you, my bullet will go any way hnd do anyth lng you may want it to, and I've writt6n to the war office to say so.
 Up to now the only communication l have received 2 reply is the usual stereotyped acknowledgement; but the patent office zpeoH.e he did not men tion names-havq valued the invention at G150,000, and have told me that it is the most marvellous invention of the present age.
 T shall wait for q further eommun- ication from the war office, and if [ do not hear from them 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 field, and that the projeetile, obedient to his wish, had circled in the air about five times and had then fallen behind him, he did so withsthe air of a young man Hsho is calmly confident that he has thovGbt out "a great hing. But of the method by which he alleges he ob- tairs these anttsaaf results, no hint can be extracted from him. That is the secret he hopes to obtain those e150,- GOO from.