Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-02-22
The Stable and the IT.,

That the horse is capable of supporting mon;
fact which has long been recognised by fox hnn,oia
and most others but certain persons in France CTS
now asserting it in sense entirely new. Tbev ore
endeavoring 10 prove, both by theory and prsS, ae
iLat the horse is similarly capable of supporting nv"
with the pig. Mr. Geoffroy de ST. Haire the ob "@n
ist is the chief of these hippophag or horse eat e"
who having Invested themselves of unphilosonb;"S
kind of meat instead o'heF
That horseflesh would probably go faster than o..
other is consideration which may present itsef ay
superficial mind; but that such is not the case ~
be known to many persons who may have vrntm1ay
on plate of hashed venison at cheap EATING homsSu
and have experienced an amount of dificuv in "oe
ting through it sufficient to prove that borsefaaL
would 60 very slowly although it might possess thi
economical advantage of going verv far e
1t is not unlikely that the flesh of the thoropch
bred horse would be characterised by peculiar rn;
of flavor. less observable in the colt than in M
full grown animal, entered some time upcn the tue u
whereon horses, if destined to be eaten would bo VI
tered Tor cups in minor proportion than for nIa,.,
and not only for plates, but also for knives and fo
and dishes. S
Newmarket would supply happily named loc,r
ty Tor the erection of shambes for the sale of bos.
though it may follow that the best courses wis.,
necessarily furnish the best material for one of tbo
courses; and Dobbin, in a astronomical noint &c
view, may be preferable TO Eclipse.
Should the use of horsefesh obtain in this cor,
Try, auehtlon would OF course be directed to the IN;
provement of The breed in novel direction '1'
The dray horse, greatly exaggerated would acror0
pany the Hereford OK at the Fat Cattle Show. and
| the hunter and cob would be intermngled with M
vons and short horns, exhibiting TANKS of enorron,
LATITUDE and huge mountains of fat on their witbor
! How pony steaks would taste, what kind of tbnn
Woulu De round OF nag siIoin, or ribs or breast
OF hly; whether a horse would require horse red
Ish may be matters of speculation but in En?land
at least, will be matters of speculation onlv willis
the living horse tetches price much higher than
would be given for his mere carcase Eating horsa
would be eating money indeed and the slaughter of
an animal worth perhaps three thousand pound,
would be an extravaganza too prodg for anv "a
Bile, inclusive of the Civic it is not therefore to bo
expected that any Mayor will ever eat horse
The high -mettled racer" instead of BEING sent
to the bounds, might certainly be consigned 10 NJ
de st. Hlalre and his disciples; but as il is imnos
bic to have your horse and eat him oo most persons
would prefer the possession to the meal if the hors.
were good for anything, and few would be DISPOSED
to regale themselves good for nothing horse
There may be singular and extraordinary daini.
ness in the chief of the equine family. of which ;t
inferior members do not partake otherwise WIN cor
hne horse eating 10 the Equus Caballds! There
the Equus AStnus also-would not that humber and
cheaper individual of the genus content the banker
ers Tor horse Even if there were the same relation
between the noble and the nf1exlble animal rs that
OF the rabbit to the hare, they might dine verv we'll
upon donkey But their nature instinctivelv revolts
perhaps, at banquet which, them. may seem what
that OF CaIib appears to civilized people
On the whole, il is probable that excent bv the
dogs and the crows, and the consumers OF doubtful
sausages, the horse will remain untouched as an ar
tlcle OF food, and nothing be eaten more nearly re-
lated 10 it than the saddle-of mutton-Lond0n
Punch.