Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-16

Chaneellorsyille he was knocked down
bv 4 spent cannon ball, and while lying
nro. trate was run over by field piece OF
six.nound calibre, which passed direct
Iv over his head and body. This was
his last exploit In the army, for upon
his eco very he obtained his discharge.
The military authorities seem not 10
have appreciated their prize or they
would never have parted with such an
inyjncible. A few regiments OF sncn
men of india-rubber would have aooi-
ished the draft and cat down the deatn
LIST amazingly. Retiring to private llie,
unmindful tpsst miSfortuueso or gFeeuy
of new ones
This Rash Man
undertook To fell tree. The halt OF
the tree flew up rs the tree fell down.
ard our hero standing in the way, as
might have been expected Of man OF
his habits. was Knocked to the distance,
he ssys, and who shall venture to doubt
il of fofty feet. With the usual i'm
nIoyidence Of genius, he had chosen
free out of sight of home, and accord
inply Law upon the snow insen5ible for
EIGHT hours before he was discovered.
A tardy examination showed that his
skull was broken, his brains were leak
ing out and the greater part OF his teeth
we're gone, Three months he allowed
himself for recovery after this master
stroke, and at the end oil that time
v bat was left Of him was entirely wei:
After these adventures he still nau
courage enough remaining to put NM
selfin the way of some blasting powder,
II anaged to ignite it, oil course, anu
parted with an eye asa souvenir OF tue
occasion. In spite OF, these manliolu
mishaps the man is well, and proclalms
himself ready to fight any man OF MS
age and weight who doubts the entlre
accuracy of his autobiography. In olden
times such man would have been
thought destined for the gallows, ami IL
is by no means sure that some would not
feel tempted to look for the mole behind
bis ear to day. Hanging would not be
successful operation in all probability;
no such serious end for our invincible.
Like the sailor who weathered humid
rcd storms and died in puddle, this
bruised and Battered
son of the immortals will probably slip
al last on banana skin or harmless bit
of orange peel. Whether his story be
tue or not, there is nothing in it that
cannot be duplicated froln the medical
records except the fact Otso many acCl-
dents happening to one victim. .
In war, when il comes to the fate OF
generals whose fortune is more curious
~ noted than that of the rank aud file,
there is nothing stranger than the I'M
munity from wounds in action OF some
leaders and the persistent i'll luck oil
others IN becoming the marx for bdl'
let. No commander was ever more tor
ward in the fighting line than sheridan,
vet he never got scracth. Sko0elen,
w no many time went att with his own
=, Oh sword, and III his white coat an l on
il white charger, headed every charge
with reckleSsness that men call mad
ness, had "a complete an immunity as
I I've carried the charmed life that his
suidiCrs fabied, and was wounded oOly
N the quiet trenches by stray ball
fred into the air mile away. Welllng
ton was but once hit, the bullet thal
carried away his boot scarce gave him
II confusion. Grant was never struck
nor was Napoleon. While Sir Neville
Chamberlain, one OF the most distln"
guished officers Of England's Indian
army, never went into action without
re ceiving hurt, and the gallant old
man has been fighting pretty steadily
ever since
The First Afghan waE,
lie number if not the importance Of his
injuries coming fully up to the mark
| Of the Michig9n hero before mentioned.
To multiply the list Of men who have
survived mortal injuries" would be to
make of this article a catalogue. There
are such cases without number and
each has its own peculiarlties. "Bill"
Poole, the gambler, lived some days
with a bullet in his heart. A negro in
| New York, some ten years ago, MUIR
dered bis mistress and cut his own
throat with the same razor with which
he had killed the woman. Then with
| tie irrational fear that sometimes ami
mates would be suicides he ran away to
escape arrest. He remained hidden in
an clubhouse for more than forty-eight
hours, and then vanqished by hunger,
| crawlGd out and surrendered to the pc.
lice. He was faint from loss OF blood
and his windpipe was completely sew
cred.
Such strains and shocks as the human
frame wlthstands make it as difficult
to say what man may not live through
as it Is VIGOROUSLY hard to tell what he
may die of. A little too much ice water
when one is over. heated, the swallow
ing Of some indigestihle morsel, such
absurd trifles as there may yet overcome
that Michigan veteran, and bring about
his death by an accident trivial in all
but its results, A strong man scratches
his finger and dies OF lockjaw. A large
man bending sideways in his chair, try
| ing to button his shoes, loses his balance
and rolls over on the carpeted floor; he
breaks his arm and gangrene sets in and
| he dies. 4 man steps on bit Of orange
-, el, or a friend sportively pulls away
he chair under the idiotic idea that
He IL Joking,
/ victim sits down too far, fractured
Ii y inc and is picked up dead. Such
cases are on record and go to show how
slight the real h I'D upon life is. Some.
time a superstitious man dreams that
upOn such an hour, in such place the
breath will leave his body. He wakes
fOlly possessed of the the idea, arranges
all his worldly affairs, bids farewell to
his family, and as the time approaches,
lies down in the specified spot, and
| yields up his breath IN sheer self sur.
render of vitality A case of this sort
has been reported from the West with
in fortnight in which the yielding up
of life was so entirely voluntary that
death might probably have been avert.
ed by the simple device, often employ.
Ell under such circumstances OF stopping
the clock until the appointed hour had
| Passed.
| II one be 50 inclined there is nothing
easier than 10 find abundant material
| for homiiies on the uncertainty of hu-
man life. AS to the phenomena OF
death is more commonly or more glar-
ingly misrepresented. Dr. i. l.. Sea-
man, Physician.in-Chief Of Charity
Hospital, Blackwells Island, took
much interest in Observing the much
Wanted death scenes of Sara Bernhardt,
and his judgment of the great actress
| performance is somewhat different from
the general conclusions of the dramatic
critics. Mile. Bernhardt has seven diff
fereDt ways of dying, and all of them,
DR.. Seaman says, are totally different
from anything he has ever seen In a