The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-09

1t now appears, from authentic instances
cited in the local papers all ovsr America,
that nine-tenths of the soldiers wounded
in the late war were shot right straight
through the liver; that about thirty per
cent of this number were shot clean
through the liver and back again that
forty-eight per cent. of the whole number
were shot exactly as the President was,
only with larger bullets; that they all got
well and are alive now. It seems that it
was not respectable for any man in the
army to get shot anywhere except in bhe
liver-or neck The officers generally
preferred the neck
DIR. Bliss and his contemporaries who
have been trying to make the President
believe that if the bullet strTlck his liver
he will have close shave of it know very
little about that organ, or els.s they have
entered into conspiracy TO ssAre him to
death. Right here in our State of Michi-
gan one can collect a car load of afiidayits
that a mans liver is about the most worth
less organ in the human body, and down
in Indiana they won't have 9em At all if
they can help it
Our correspondent at Lanaing writes:
Please let the President kEow through
your columns that in 1872 boy fred an
agate marble through my liver from toy
cannon / stuffed up the hold with an old
hat and after the third day / could attend
to business as well as ever. The injury
rather blunted my taste for New Orleans
molasses, but aside from thatI have noticed
no serious effects"
Our correspondent at Mackinaw sends
down the following: "The President need
not be alarmed about his liver. Last fall
my brother got in the way IL q blast at
. Lake Superior mine and atone weigh
ing pound was driven clear through hIm,
carrying portions of his liver 400 feet.
The doctors pronounced him . dead man.
but In four weeks be was able to plav
base ball, and has never had even q head
ache since. / enclose you tho stOne which
knocked his liver ont a. proof Of my state
ments"
Our correspondent at Sc. Joseph writes:
In June last year had . colored man
named John Baker in my employ. While
driving . moving machine l3e fell to the
ground and was badly cut eup. Among
other wounds he had his liver cut slick in
two, and q council Of seven doctors deci-
ded that he mnsk die within two kourA.
He Is now we'll healthy Esan, chewing
the strongest Kind Of ping tobocoo and
drinking whisky which kilIs ordinary men
stone dead 1t thirty-six rods"
Our correspondent ~ Gnud Haven says
he knows an Indian who Wnj npped 0pen
with buzz-saw and his liver 6ang upon
beam forty feet away. The doctors
sewed him mp in such . harry that the
lost organ was forgotten, but the red man
has suffered no incunvenielce whsteser.
On the contrary, he has never ben N snch
spiritA he can drink twice - mech
whisky without getting ffmglsd i II
much easier for him o sGear hs does
not perspire - mach; hs b cussd of the
habit Of fsnorings his coat afs bsfter u she
back; dried appls hare improved IN taste,
and he would not have tie cd thing hack
again under any circumslnlnsk 1kes sn-
tire sash, d0or an1 bEn1 fkob = nnEch
the aocidens occuErsd hsn 6}sn &wnzaed
to sahstau1iats these aassrlM M end he
medical fraternity are iDxit& ~ eall and
have their doubts remossd- 4 dstl&