The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-26


!. r,,pebman was one day biandly demonstrating
.unust the superclious expressed by Enel
sor the beef of France which he, for his It did not
ad1 20 inferior to that of England hnyo been two
,i,r.s IN England he remarked " but neyerc find the
M =, sup.:rieur % ours find il vary convenient that
thcv bring 1t you eete pieces OF stick for one penny
but do not And the bif srpfreur. On hearEg this,
the EnxIiShmen, red with ACCOMPLISHMENTS, exclaimed,
:. C,ood (,ol sir. you have been eating cats meat 20
II IA very true he had been eating cat meat but had
he not at the same time been .ing meat rs succuIcif
avory and wholesome the marbled beef OF which the
Brton Is 10 proud Let the resonant shouts OF laughter
slje little and while you wipng the tears from
yony eyes listen 10 the serious exposition shall
make of the agreeable and nuttvr qualities Of horse
flesh We are going to into the service OF our
argument the immense Of evidence collected by NJ
sdorc 0cofroy St Hairct respecting the tribes and
nations which hsbtualy dine of horses will wy lay
much stress on the fact that Ia the Jarin DIES Plantes
the carnivoa sre habitually fed hoseaesh, which
keeps them healthy in spite OF many unfayoabe eondi
tons The sceptic might not unrasonaby ask whether
our digestive power be que good that OF the lion
and he would remark that the condor is known 10 devour
with rcas food which Mr. Brown would sturdiy refuse
unhsppiy no dctetic rules for be deduced from
condorx and lions We must rely the experience OF
human stoFnachs. Nor is this experiences wanting.
Without abiding to the rumoIs which attribute to the
Paris retaurafeurs liberal employment Of horse flesh
among their Gs De b0w, H. st Hilaire collects inn
posing mass Of evidence show that horses have been
eaten in abundance and without suspicion, without
evil consequence Huzard the celebrated veterinary
surgeon records that during the revolution tho pcrula
ton Of Paris f fOr six months hogse ncsh 1t
ss that when the bcef known to be that Of horses
some complaints made but in spite Of the strong
prejuces aud the teros such discovery raised, no
single Of illness attributable to this food Lar
rev the great army surgeon declares that very many
occasions during the campaigns, he administered horse
flesh the soldiers and what is more, he administered
the sick in the hospitals Instead Of finding it in
FURIOUS he found it powerfully contributed to their
,alsscencc aud drove away scorbutic epidemic Other
testimony Is cited, and NJ. St. Hilaire feels himself
abundantly authorized to declare that hone flesh is
wholesome and nutritious OK flesh.
IL horsc-feSh palatable as it il wholesome Little
viii it avail how there are tribes Of hppopha
gists how soldiers during campaign, and citizens
during siege, have freely eaten of the fL de chal
under such extrenits old shoe has been desped
which u.s. nevertheless not generally considered tooth
morsel Feeling the necessity of having this point
definitely seted the advocates of horse have given
banquets, both In Germany and France at which the
comparative merits Of horses ccws, and appre
ciated In 1885, the project u police chose commission
Of eminent men to inquire into the quality of the flesh
taken from horses which had died. had been recently
killed. in Paris and its environs These commissioners
all shared the general prejudice yet in their report they
avowed that cannot but admit this to be very
good and very sav0ry several members Of the
sion have eaten it. and could not detect any sensible diff
ference between ii and beef In 1884, horse-Aesh
openly adopted ct OchSenhauscn what IRONY in this
name and Wurtemberg, at both of which places it
Times to b publicly sod under the surveillance Of the
police and five six horses weekly brought to
ket large quantity is also sold at the Lake Of Con-
stance In 1912, banquet, at which a hundred and
Fifty persons assisted nauguated its public at 10
nigsbaden Stuttgard In ls46 the police of Baden
authorised Its public sale and Schahansen followed the
example. In lS47, Weimar and Detmod witnessed pub
lie banquess Of the hippophagiss which went off with
td& in Karlshad and its environs the new beef
into general and at zttAu two hundred horses
eaten annually The innovation gained ground rapidly
and the public sale Of horsc-fcsh is general in
Austria, Bohemia Saxony, Hanover, Switzerland, and
Belgium. In 1853, Berlin counted less than five
houses where three hundred and fifty horses
sold In Vienna, during the year, there was
riot to prevent of these banquets yet in 1854
such progress had been made in public opinion that
thirty thousand pounds weight sold In fort
night and least ten Thousand of tho inhabitants
are hppophzgists.
the one hand, how strong is prejudice and, the
other, how unreasoning the stomach we must admit
that hoEsehssh could only gain acceptance in virtue Of
its positive excellence Nor will it suffice to meet these
facts with sarcasm on German beef in comparison with
which horse1esh may be supposed to hold dishonor
able rank have the testimony Of men accustomed to
the dJt DE- Paris and Ph1pes, invited expressly pro-
nouncc Judgment and proved trial. incapable of dis
tngushing horse beef from ox-bcef NJ. Renault, the
director of the great veterinary school at Abort had
horse brought to the establishment with an incurable
paralysis 1t killed and three days afterwards on
the LIST December 1855, eleven guests invited to
dine on it they were phyEcians journalists veterinary
surgeons and employees of the government Side by side
dishes prepared by the cook precisely sim
lar manner, consisting Of similar parts If the meat from
this horse, and from Ut good quality. The horse
soup was hanked by oxsoup, the bol Of horse by
horA Of beef the let of beef by let Of roast
hoSe The guests undniueoGsy pronounced in favor of
the horse-soup the boaAi, on the contrary they
thought inferior to that of the OK though superior
binary beef decidedly to oowbeef The fllet
again, seemed to them very decidedly in favor of the
horse. Similar experiments have been subsequently
peafed in Paris and the Provinces under varying con
tions the guests have sometimes been informed what
they ROnR to eat sometimes they have been to-
tally unsuspectng and sometimes they have been sim
ply told that they going TO cat something quite
novel Yet in every the result has been the same
1t ia this evidence that M St Hilare calls upon
the French people to turn their serious attention to the
immense of excellent animal food which lies within
their reach, and which they annually suffer to waste
merely because of absurd prejudice Difficult as it
may be to overcome prejudice array Of ignorance
prevent the establishment of truth which IL at
easily demonstrable and Immediately beneficial
Prejudice may reject horsefesh, it long rejected
and potatoes, the latter Of which, Montague tells u.s.
excited reaoRrrsai "a dxyot, but has nevertheless be-
come European food. If horses are eaten, why not
donkeysf The Greeks ate donkeys and we must sup
pose they had their for it. Has any modern
stomach been courageous enough to try. :.
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PRUNING Fur SHADE AND FoRrsr TRrm june and
July ARE good months for removing large limbs from fruit
aud shade trees The sap is IA right condition to
'orm new wood and the healing process at
once The foliage aso serves shade to prevent