also well cooked; he then came out of the oven,
and sat down, continues the report, to partake,
with a respectable assembly of friends, of
those viands he had so closely attended during
the culinary process. Publicly, on a subsequent
day, and in an oven 6 feet by 7, and at
a heat of about 220, he remained till a steak
was properly done, and again returned to his
fiery den and continued for a period of thirty
minutes, in complete triumph over the power
of an element so much dreaded by humankind,
and so destructive to animal nature. It has
been properly observed, that there are
preparations which so indurate the cuticle, as to
render it insensible to the heat of either boiling
oil or melted lead; and the fatal qualities
of certain poisons may be destroyed, if the
medium through which they are imbibed, as
we suppose to be the case here, is a strong
alkali. Many experiments, as to the extent to
which the human frame could bear heat, without
the destruction of the vital powers, have
been tried from time to time; but so far as
recollection serves, Monsieur Chabert's fire-
resisting qualities are greater than those
professed by individuals who, before him, have
undergone this species of ordeal.''

It was announced some time ago, in one of
the French journals, that experiments had