Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-05-11
WARNING FROM THE CHOLERA

WARNING FROM THE CHOLERA.
The following humorous warning
upon this grave subject may perhaps do
more real good than advice in more Sc
rious garb. 1t is assumed to be address
ed to the Editor ola newspaper:
Sir-As / am at present residing in
England, and may probably soon pay
visit to my friends in America, have
thought it best to send beforehand to
your columns slight sketch of my histo-
Ty and proceedings. was born and bred
in India. My father, who is a well
known old serpent, named me Cholera,
by way of signifying my sympathy and
regard for the cross and choleric portion
of mankind. l am particularly attached
to every thing my parent has hand in,
consorting always, whatever country
inhabit, with the promoters of any kind
of evil and iniquIty. The prohigates,
the drunkards, the gluttons, the lazy, the
dirty, the quarrelsome, may be sure [
will find out their abode.
never fail to fix on those constitu-
tons that have been enfeebled by de-
bauchery or undermined by the infal-
lible poisons which are such favorites in
your country, under the name of quack
medicines. prefer lodging always in
narrow courts, and in cellars under
ground, in chambers where no win
dows will open, in the neighborhood of
gasometers, ponds, or the purlieus of
public houses, redolent of bar beer, a
mong effluvia of punch, whiskey, and
blue-ruin. But this must observe, that
if man be industrious, sober, and tenn
perate, shall have nothing to say to
him. If he rise early, open wide his
windows, wash himself, from head to
foot, whitewash often his house, take
his meals with his family, and keep him
self always in good humor with his
neighbors-such a one cannot abide
He NAV live in health, and die, in good
old age, for all | can do to the contrary.
pass by his cheerful hearth and heart
to revel in the rotten liver of the drunk
ard, and stir about the boiling bile of the
snlky the disconnected and the litgious.
am. sir, yours truly,
CHOLERA MORBUS.
p. S.-For the information of arti-
fcers beg to add, that am very fond Of
kissing faces well grimed with SCOT and
dirt: and ! revel in those stomachs
which are stuffed one half the week and
StarYe the other.
Doing good Business 1t is related
Of Sir Ashley Cooper by his biographer,
on unquestionable authority, that in the
last year of his abode in New Broad
street, London, he realized the largest
sum ever known by medical practition
er, no less than Ell 900 sterling, and
for wears after his transit to the west end
Of the town the same astonishing cele-
brity, with its consequent wonderful in
come of from 9lS,O0O to 100000 per
annum, attended his footsteps.
9960G-
New Opium Lar in China.--We per-
ceive in late Pexin Gazette, ne,0 law
against the use of opium, made by the
emperor, at the suggestion Of the Grim
iDal board.
The law is that any of the military OF
common people, detected in the use of
Opium, shall be punished with one hun.
dred blows, and two months pillory -
II refusing to point out the person of
whom il was purchased, the punishment
shall be the same as that of the seller
viz :-one hundred blows, and three
years transportation. The punishment
Of any officer or official attendant using
Opium shall be one degree more severe.
The prepostcrous severity Of this law is
alone sufficient to stamp it as impracti-
cable. Every Governor, Foo-yven, &c.
&c, is commanded to require Of all per-
sons employed in his office, bond that
they never use Opium Canton Reg
lister, Dee. IL.
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