The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-20
MONSIEUR CHAUBERT.

The London journals continue to detail
the wonderful performances of this walking
personifcaton of sang froid. He passes all
the ordeals of the devouring element with,
apparently, kind of supernatural success
and although he sometimes stoops to de-
ceptlon, yet, in cases multtudnous, he goes
through the fiery trials of the present world,
with resolute and unblanching frmness
Falstaff calls the nose of Bardolph a Sala-
vanderbilt the Fire King may be denom-
mated Salamander in toto. His darinG
exploits are becoming more Gid more une-
1aSivocaiIy wonderful. In the language Of
our oyster-venders, he has many time and
oft been "roasted, flied, stewed, and boil
ed" and we might add, that he has repeat
eddy approached within an ace of being
done up for transportation" to the undis-
covered country. He plays with Goals and
poison, like Pheton with Apollo's cart and
horses-and like poor Sam Patch, whilome
a disporter in the watery element, Monsieur
Chaubert asseverates that there is " no mis-
| take" in his eating wood warmed up. If he
WAC a dough-head in his youth, he has sub
1 sequently been most essentially baked for
he has gone, periodically, into ovens, and
returned with roast beef, and other eata-
I
swallowed an enormous dose of prussic acid.
and has consented to stand a candidate for
lhydrophobia, by suffering a mad dog to bite
him. On one occasion, after taking some
deadly drug, he averred that his brains
seemed to swell and boil in his head. This
we conceive to be mistaken notion in Mon
sieur Abednago. He who would undertake
so fearful a job, as the swallowing of SC
potent a poison as prussic acid, must have
few brains to cook up in the manner afore-
said.
Seriously-the indiscriminate curiosity Of
the public gives rise to appalling exhibitions
Lives are endangered, many lost, through
that prevalent thirst for the wonderful, which
heeds not how shocking the sacrifice, SC
the offering be made. Wonder stands with
mouth agape, while men leap cataracts and
swallow hre, with an audacIty, dangerous
as 1t is fool-hardy, for few patry dollars
and cents. Antipodes walk the vaulteC
domes OF theatres, unmindful of the pros
pect of tumefield sinciput, or desecratet
spine. Intrepid eronauts cleave the air
subject to a thousand chances and danger,
and yet who that looks on, but forget,
the danger in the establishment and admira
ton of the moment, while he sanctions. by
his donation and presence, the impious dar,
ing ola misguided spirit, that hampers will
a life, and makes plaything of eternity?
Philadelphia Inquirer.
We sometimes meet with funny things in the
shape of advertisements. Huddled amongst
The crowd of equivocal Wants" Of "piain
chambermaids,' and slight porters" every day
to be found in the London Times, we lately OBJ.
served the following -" Wanted, Immediately,
as hoffman, respectable and well educated
man he must understand the dead languagss
and speak most Of the living ones Auent1v. III
viii be expected to wait at table with decorum,
to clean knives and forks, and TO attend TO a
horse and gig. tie must be of a grave deport-
ment, help the girls TO make the beds, and play
! with the children" 800 P'"'