Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-01-17
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER MAN AND
 HITS HIM IN THE BACK:

 A Person Will Not He safe From an Enomy
 Standing on the Opposite Side of House
 If the Claims of 3 Young English In,
 ventor Arc True.
 The man who fatters 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 a young inventor claims to have discovered wonderful new way of making bullets; and if the new bullet meets with that popularity which its remarkable abilities appear to warrant, 1t won't be quite safe to be in bal- loon while an effort is being made to fire down we'll In short, the new bullet will, even iS it does only half of what is claimed for 1t, upset all old- fashioned notions of the laws govern ing the flight of pfojectiles.
 Arthur Chalk os Church Place, High street. Mapping, is the young inventor in question, and he yesterday told Daily Mail reporter that this new bull let of his would 60 around corners, suddenly shoot up In the air and de- scend point first Vn top of town or anything, or fly round and round and then jump back aqd kill off an enemy at the back of the man who fired it.
 T am but eighteen years of age." said MT. Chalk. taodestly, "and I am confident that I have invented bullet that will reyolutlonize fighting. What I claim, and am prepared to prove, is that with my bullSt can hit an object that is round a cGrner 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 Nf mountain When you had found tue distance between your gun and the mountain you would fix your bullet to alter its course at a certain moment Then you'd fire, and the man round the corner would be sorry.
 "Or, say you wUnted to hit an ene- my's ship lying on the other side of one of your own. That would be tho 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 20 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 10 reply is the usual stereotyped acknowledgment but the patent office people-he did not men, tion names-have valued the invention at 9150,000, and have told me that it Is the most marvellous invention of the present age.
 T shall wait for a further commun- ication from the war office and if I do not hear from them I shall offer my invention to q foreign government. Of course l would rather the now bullet became the property of the English government, but 1 want to know soon.s
 MT. Chalk is modest and very cara est inventor, and when he mentioned Shat he had tried one of his bullets in 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 a great thing. But of the method by which he alleges he ob- tains these unusual results, no hint can 
 De extracted from him. That is the secret he hopes to obtain those a15o- 900 from