The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-17

than they would receive another. The
Hartford Times not long ago published
story TINT was widely copied of maa
whose history was told by himself to a
correspondent in Michigan, and whose
personal appearance bore out his story,
so the correspondent said. He claimed
that his troubles began when he was
only years old when he fell through
the roof of shed, breaking all his ribs,
both collar bones, his breast bone, his
right arm in two places, his left arm
above the elbow and the bones of his
left hand. 1t was thought that he coulG
not recover, but he did. Ten years
later his hip was dislocated twice in the
same year, and his right ankle was
broken. In 1856 he was shot in the
ankle in fight on Mississippi steam
boat. DuNhg this time he had had
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, and, in
Central America, the spotted fever.
This last disease stayed with him four
months and "peeled him off like a
snake" 1t was not until the war broke
ont, however, that this remarkable man
had full play for his talents. Joining
the army he was bayoneted in the left
knee in the battle of Gainesville and
captured by the ConEedarates. Daring
his imprisonment of three months he
was sunstruck, and afterward nearly
starved to death, and was only pa
rolled when his captors supposed him
TO be without the ability to do
further service In long march
the veins in his left leg burst,
and he almost died of hcmorrhage. At
charlottesville he was knocked down
by spent cannon ball, and while lying
PROSTATE was run over by field piece
of six-pound caliber, which passed di-
rectly over his head and body. After
recovering again and getting his DIS
charge he undertook one day to cut
down n tree, but, by not uncommon
accident, the bltt of the tree flew mp as
the tree fell. and this man standing in
the way, as was to have been expected
of man of his habits, was knocked u
distance, he says, of forty feet. He ld~
on the SNOW insensirle for eight hours,
and on getting his senses again found
that his skull was broken and his brains
were leaking out, and that eight of his
teeth were gone. In three months he
was entirely well-that is, all that was
left was well, but III handling some
bla ting powder he managed to ignite
it, and the loss of one eye was the con-
sequence. Thee were the principal
dents this man related, but he said
he had had many minor ones. In spite
Of all he had been through he was well
and claimed to be ready TO fight any
man of his age and weight, but com
planned that his blood was SO thin that
he was unable TO keep warm even in
summer In olden time such a man
won d have been thought by the supcr-
stitious destined for the gallows, but
there is some question whether hanging
would be a successful operation.
Whether the story is true or not, it is
al possible, and there is nothing in it
that cannot be duplicated in the medi-
cal record except the fact of so many
accidents to the same victim.
To multiply the list of men who
have survived mortal injuries, or
what have been supposed to DE mortal,
would be to make this article n cata-
logue. as limited above There are
such, cases without number, and each
has IT'S own popularity. Bill" Poole,
the gambler, it is well known, lived
some days will bullet in his heart. A
negroin this city, some ten years ago,
murdered his mistress and then cut his
own throat with the same razor with
which he had killed her Then with
the iritatod fear that sometimes ami
mates would-be suicides, he ran away to
escape arrest. He remained hidden in
an clubhouse for over iorty-eight hours.
Then, being hungry, he crawled out and
surrendered to the police. He was
faint with the loss Of blood, and his
wiudpipe was completely severed. An
unfortunate man who hangs around an
Eighth aveDue saloon, in this city, car
ries bullet in his brain cavity, which,
it has been found by the use OF the in
dicator" used by surgeons), now lies
some four inches below It's first resting
place. This bullet entered his temple,
the hole being still apparent, during the
war of the Rebellion. lie was strict
teetotaIler before and during tho war,
but since he was shot he has had ter
rible thirst for liquor. A COM
mon remark of the saloon-keeper
is, Don't give Tom a glass it'll make
him blind drunk. There is no end
to such case,, but another branch of
the subject should be mentioned. It is
wcll-known and common fact that
man NAV so htbituafe himself TO the
u.e of poisons (of many kinds that he
may take with impunity and carry
aroHni in his system a sufficient amount
to kill twenty other men. Probably
the commonest in lance Of this is the
use of nicotine There are hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of men in THIS city
who have been in the habit for years of
inhaling mot swallowing. but breath
ing) the smoke of cigars or cigarettes.
If any one OF them should die and an
autopsy should be made, his lungs
could be squeezed in a common lemon
squeezer, and enough OF the pure oil of
nicotine would exule to kill dozen,
perhaps a hundred, men. Yet the habit,
despite what the doctors say, does not
always kill, or, if it does, the time it
takes enables the victim 10 die OF old
age first. A less frequent, but still
common, case, is chat of the abuse of
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