The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-11

was so pleased with the performance
that he was allowed two ratiOns in the
army, and, by his earnings, or the in
+ dulgence of his comrades, he procured
an additional supply. When in the
camp, if bread or meat were scarce, lie
usually cOntented himself by eating
/ four or five pounds of grass daily
During one year ne deVOuTed Ia cats,
which he sometimes killed before
I hand, but if very hungry invariably
omitted this part of the performance.
Dogs and rats also suffered from his
mercileSs jaws, and if his appetite was
/ exceedingly keen, the entr;tils of ami
mails were relished by him with the
I greatest gIIstO. At the time of his sur
render, mans leg which was shot
off attracted his greedy eye, and he
was proceeding TO dispose Of it, when
sailor snatched il from him and
[ threw it overheard.
While in prison, from February to
September, 1893, he partOOk of one
dead cat and about twenty rats. He
delighted most in raw meat, beef or
mutton, and although supplied with
the ratiOns of ten men daily, he COM
| planned that he did not have the same
quantity which was allowed him when
| in France. He often deYOuFed Il
bullOck's liver raw, three pounds of
candles and a few pounds of raw beef
in one day, without tasting bread or
vegetables. His taste was not con-
fined to meat alone, for when in the
hospital, where some of the patients
refused to take their medicines, DOM
cry had not the slightest objection to
perform this duty for them.
On September 18th 1879, at four
o'clock in the morning, he breakfast
ed on four pounds of raw cows udder,
and at half-past nine, in the presence
of DIR. Johnston, Commissioner of
Sick ana Wounded Seamen, and Il
few others, he exhibited his powers as
follows: There was set before him
five pounds of raw beef and twelve
tallOw candles of one pound weight
each, and one bottle Of porter, and
these he finished by half-past ten. At
one o'clock there was again set before
him five pounds of beefand one pound
of candles, with three bottles of porter,
ut which time he was locked up in
the room and sentries placed at the
windows to prevent him from throw
ing away any of his provisions. At
two O'clock he had nearly finished the
candles and great part of the beef,
and ut quarter-past six, when he re-
turned to his prison, he had devOred
the whole, and declared he could have
ate more.
The manner in which he attacked
his beef, when his stomach was not
gOrged, resembled the voracity of
wolf When his throat was dry from
continuous exercise, he fabricated it
by stripping the grease off the candles
between his teeth, which he usually
finished at three mOuthfulls, and wrap
ping the wick like ball, string and
all, set it after, at one swallow. He
could, on occasions, manage to dine
on immense quantities Of raw pOta-
toes or turnips, but hehad no partial
ity for them. Enough said.
On pane of glass, in the parlOr
window of a roadside public house,
called "rhe Plough" in LOrdship
lane, leading from West Peckham to
Sydeham, near London, there is the
following inscription:
'March Is, lS01-ThOmas Mount
Jones dined here. Eat six pounds of
DOlS Ol DCCI.
In the New York Mirror for 1888,
we read that a certain gOurmand din
ing with lady, a scrupulOus observer
of etiquette, offered his services to
cut up brace of partridges. Instead,
however, OF doing so on the dish, he
put them, for the purpose, on his own
plate. "FOr whom do you intend
your leavings?" asked the lady, IN
surprise. Madam" said he, al do
not intend to leave any?"
Blumenbach, who died in 1910, says
he knew two men who ruminated
their vegetable food, and found great
enjoyment in the feat, while one of
them had the power of doing so or not,
as he felt inclined.
Mrs. PiOzzi, in her ''TOur of Itlay,"
mentions man who could reject his
meals from his stomach at pleasure,
and who did, i'm the course of two
hours, 90 through ''the whole oper-
alton of eating, masticating and swal-
lowing, and returning by the mouth
large piece of bread and Il peach"
These are but "a few examples of
men with swine-like appetites and
cOW-like stOmachs. Hundreds of such
cases are TO be met with i'm our walks
through life. 1t is no uncommon feat
for man nowadays to devour n hum
dred oysters at a single meal, or even
to partake of three or four pounds of
steak. We know not how many glut-
tons exist i'm our very midst, for, let
it be born in mind, thousands of hu-
man curiOsities have passed away
from earth whOnever exhibited them
selves to the world at large.