Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-27

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som. From his reference 10 dates during the con
ysrsa,ion | dedueed his age 10 be fifty nine. and
in reply Il the question he told me that his birth
day was The 2lst Of February.
Table Trats..
| The following extracts iron DIR. Dornn's
ferfnining book with the above title will give
some idea Of lis rich tore Of anecdotes and Gu
Iious historical illustrations:
HOW THE ARIsTOCRACY nISEp.
have noticed tho love Of good eating aud III.
| coarseness connected with it. There also "A
coarse economy attendant on il. TITO Duchess
! of Devonshrr would call out to the Duke. when
| both presiding at Supper after of their
assemblies, Good God, Duke, don't cut the
ham; nobody will eat any" and then she would
| relate the circumstances Of her private menoge
to her neighbor: when there's only my Loro
and |, besides pudding, we have always afieh
! dish of ronst"-no very dainty fare for ducal
1 pair. Indeed, there much want of dani-
| ness, and OF dignity, too, in many of those with
! whom both mi ght have been looked for as a pos
session. Lord Coventry chased his lady round
tn dinner table. and scrubbed the paint off her
cheeks with napkin. The Duke and Duchess
of Hamilton were more contemplate in their
| pomposiy than their Graces Of Devonshire were
| in their planness. At their own house they
walked into dinner before their company, sat to-
gether at the upper end of their own table ate to-
/ gather off one plate, and drank to nobody beneath
/ the rank of earl. IL was, indeed. wonder that
| they could get any OF any rank to dine with
| them at all. But, in point Of dinners, people are
not nice even now. Dukes very recently din
ed with n railway potentate, in hopes of profiting
by the condescension; and duohesscs heard, with
out smile, that potentate's lady superbly dis
miss them with an ''du reservoir an express
ion. by the way, which is refined when compared
with that taught by mobility hundred years
ago to the rich Bohemian Countess Chamfet.
namely. "D-n YOU aud kiss me !"--but it
WINS ALPHABETICALLY said of her that she never
ed the former but upon the miscarriage of the
LITTER. This was AT time when vast assemblies
were followed by vast snppers. vast suppcrs by
vast drinking, and when nymphs aud SWANS
cached home at dawn ia wigs, like Rangers
iri the comedy, vastly battered and not very fit
IL DO seen.
NEW WINE IL OLD BOTTLES.
One of the most neutrality-suspicious. we st ould
i'ny ono of tho most sciontlfc-tricks that we
'nnve heard of, in connexion with wine doctoring,
proves that the modern chemical brewers OF SUI
perlor beverages which seem what they are not,
are vastly superior to the more exporImentalsts
of former days. In tho royal cellars of Carlton
House there was enshrined If we may so speak,
n small quantity of wine which, like the gems
wornhy the Irish lady, was both "rch and rare"
1t was only produced by George ". when ha
had around him his most select and wittiest
friends. The precious deposite gradually DIT
lnlnished; year by year as in the case OF the
famous shngrecn tkin of the French novelist l'al
zac 1t grew less, until at last couple OF dozen
bottles only were left. cleaning at the bottom OF
thor bins like gems in mine, and full OF liquid
promise to those who needed the especial comfort
which it was their duty to mpart. These, how
ever, were lett SO long unasked for that the gen,
tlemen of the Kings suite who had the control
oi the grape department deemed them forgotten,
and, at their own mrtbful table, drank them all
! but two with infinite delight to themselves and
/ - Ina hot Tar Lpolt, az thnIr ~ hpv
| found, however that there was garlic i'll the
tlrwrrs as the Turkish proverb has 1t aud their
etnbarrns smrnt WAS not small when the KING,
giving his orders for choice dinner certain
! night, ntilnatcd his desire that supply OF his
lnvorto wine should grace the board. In courts,
to- hear j. Ia obey and the officials who had
drunk the wine, at resortod to an eminent
firm, well skilled to give advice in such delicate
WINE eases. The physician asked but for n sam
pie bottle and t. he told the exact hour at winch
/ the f5tyorIte drnught would be asked for. This
5 WAS complied with, and in due time n proper
amount 4 the counterfeit wine was forwarded to
i Fulton House, anl there hroachol and drunk,
with such en omiums that the officers who were
IL the secret, had some difficulty in nahtnlning
F al "ihclaI gravity If cpnutcuance. The brewer
/ oi the new WINE WAS certainly FIRST rate artist;
aud If lac eyer achieved knjghihood and coat -ot
nIms | would Civ, him " Bruin" for his crest,
and " the drink, the drink, dear Hamlet for his
has often been told and nearly "a often been dis
credited; but am assured by an officer of the
! household who speaks "drec connaiSsdace de
| fii,' that it is substantially true.
TIE ORIGIN OF DRINKING PHRASES.
Nearly all our old fashioned drinking phrases
nro but corruptions Of foreign terms a ga
! rouse" for instance. is derived from "gur aus
j E." altogether empty" sufficiently indicative of
| what rovellcr WAS to do with his full glass
There Is one "a rather vulgar trrml of thu origin
/ of which, however, ! have never heard; hut
! think may have discovered it in little German
! poem, by rfarrius, called " Der Trunk arrs dem
Street,"
4 THE DIET OF SAINTS.
81. Nlltrd, who taught halt starved South
/ SuNunS to catch the fish that swan al their feet
! and thereby live, seems to mo to have perform
ed a far more meritorious work than If he had
passed his life in knnwing leoks or mas;lcating
! pulls. Our native saint, good man at table. was
often better employed than st. Theresa. who Is
eulogi1cd because, when serving at table, or car
wing the dinner from the kitchen, she was OF
ten suddenly absorbed in God with the utensils
or instruments of her business in her hands.
Tho hungry and eXpectant monks might have
quoted a,ainst the rupt maid the assertion of the
royal sage that there is time to eat as well "a
To- fast and ray. But 81. Theresa, with all her
good qualities. WINS as obstinate ms the Polish
saint lcdwiags, who not only abstained from
meat until abstinence had nearly proved suicidal.
but who refused to save her life by eating any
until the Pope's lcgate had issued n very pprrmp-
tory prrcept TO that effect, st. Peter OF Alcan-
tara lost all taste by hi, nearly total abstinence
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