Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-04-17
BEATS A BOOMERANG.
THIS BULLET JUMPS OVER a MAN AND
HITS HIM IN THE BACK.

Person VIII Not BE Safe From Enemy
Standing the Opposite Side of a House
If the Claims of 8 Young English In.
ventor Are True.
The man who flatters 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 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 a ball
loon while an effort is being made to
fire down we'll In short, the new
bullet will even /; it does only half OF
what is claimed Tor it, upset all olds
fashioned notions Of the laws govern
ing the fight of pgojectiles.
Arthur Chalk o. Church Place, High
street, Wrapping, Is the young inventor
in question, and be yesterday told
Daily Mail reportVr that this new bull
let of his would so around corners,
suddenly shoot W. in the air and de-
scend point first IN top of town or
anything, or fly round and round and
then jump back ald kill off an enemy
at the back of thu man who fired it.
Il am but eighteen years of age"
said Mr.. Chalk, l1odestly, "and I am
confident that I have invented bullet
that will revoluti3niZe lighting. What
! claim, and am prepared to prove, is
that with my bullgt l can hit an object
that is round q corner or on the other
side of block Of houses. There is alb
solutely no doubt about the accuracy
Of the aim. Su2posing, now, you
wanted to hit something that was
round the corner IF a mountain. When
you had found t4e 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 rouQd the corner would
be sorry.
'tOr, say you wanted to hit an enc
my's ship lying on the other side of one
Of your own. That would be the
easiest thing ina ENABLE. 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.
81 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
I have received 70 reply is the usual
stereotyped acknowledgment; but the
patent office people-he did not men
ton names-havS valued the invention
at e150,006, and have told me that it
Is the most marvellous invention Of the
present age.
Il shall wait for a further commun-
lcation from the war office, and if l 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"
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 a 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 $780,
600 from