Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-01-18
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER A MAN AND
 HITS HIM IN THE BACK.

A Person VIII Not Ne Safe From an Enemy
 Standing the Opposite side of House
 If the Claims of Young English Ina
 ventor Arc True.
 The man who flatters himself that he is safe because he is behind house when another man Is firing off gun at the other side, had better get rid of that ridiculous notion once and for all.
 For young inventor claims to have discovered q wonderful new way of making bullets; and if the new bullet meets with that popularity which It's remarkable abilities appear to warrant, 1t won't be quite safe to be in q bal- loon while an effort is being made to fire down we'll In short, the new bullet will, even ii it does only half of what is claimed gor 1t, upset all old fashioned notions of the laws govern ing the flight of pgojeetiles.
 Arthur Chalk og Church Place. High street, Mapping, is the young inventor in question, and he yesterday told Daily Mall reporter that this new bull let of his would go around corners, suddenly shoot uD in the air and de- seend point first Vn top of town or anything, or fly round and round and then jump back apd kill off an enemy at the back of ths man who fired 1t.
 Il am but eighteen years of age," said MT. Chalk. paodestly, and I am confident that I have invented bullet that will reYoluti0nize fighting What l claim, and am prepared to prove, is that with my bullst can hit an object that Is round a cerner 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 aomething that was round the corner Of mountain. When you had found t8e distance between your gun and the mountain you would fix your bullet te alter it's course at a certain moment Then you'd fire, and the man rou1d 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.
 T tell you. my bullet will go any way and do anything you may want 1t to, and I've written to the war office to say so.
 Up to now the only communication I have received tp reply is the usual stereotyped acknowledgement; but the patent office peoyle-he did not men- ton names-hays valued the invention at 91500O0, and have told me that 1t Is the most marvellous invention of the present age
 I shall wait for g further commun- ication from the war office. and if I do not hear from them I shall Gffer my invention to foreign government. Of course l would rather the new bullet became the property of the English government, but want to know soon."
 Mir. Chalk is a modest and very cara est inventor, and when he mentioned that he had tried one of his bullets in field, and that the projectlle, 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 a great thing. But of the method by which he alleges he ob- tains these unusual results, no hint can ae extracted from him. That is the secret he hopes to obtain those R150.- 000 from.