Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Bullets Now Made of Paper. [ARTICLE]

Bullets Now Made of Paper.

There used to bo a saying in the old dueling days of a generation past that every bullet lias its billet. Now, if we may believe a statement in per Militararzl, the time has arrived when a billet, even a billet-doux, may be converted into a bullet. The journal states that a French army surgeon has invonted a bullet made,of compressed pallor, covered by a thin sheet of highly polished aluminum. The new bullet, it is claimed, is less expensive than those in use; it makes equally as good targets nt any range, and the wound made by it is, surgically, clean, healing with far greater ease than wounds made by any of the missiles now in use. Thus, while the number of wounded may l>e no less, the labor of surgeons will be lightened by the absence of septic conditions.—lnvention.