The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-04

with the most costly viands that Ell
ther the air, sea or land could furnish
/ He took delight in nothing but gOr-
mandizing and swilling, but he soon
met with his just reward; for, Tevell-
ing and carousing at 4 wedding ban
quet at Lambeth, he suddenly fell
down dead, after he had reigned only
two years, and was buried in Win
chester A. ID. 1912
IN the year 1911, Maximillian, l, of
Austria, being at Augusta, there was
presented to him Il man OF large size
and incredible strength and stomach,
insomuch that at one meal he would
eat a whole sheep or cow raw, and
when he had done so professed he had
not satisfied his hunger.
The Gothic nations, III the days
gone by, were famous fOT the quanti-
ties Of food and drink which they con-
sumed. Tine ancient Germans and their
Saxon descendants ia England were
semarkable for their hearty meals
Gluttony and drunkeHness were 80
very common that these vices were
not considered disgraceful. Searching
among the writings Of Tacitus, we
find that the former race Of men were
as easily overcome by strong drink as
bv arms. DIR. Gilbert Stuart, in his
Historical Dissertation Concerning
the Antiquity of the British COnstitu-
ton" affirms that from this prOpen-
sity Of the older Britons 10 indulge ex-
cessiycly in eating and drinking has
proceeded the restriction upon jurors
20 refrain from meat and drink, and
TO be held in custody until they have
agreed upon their verdict
To show what means afforded for
the practice Of gluttOBy in the time Of
Henry the Eighth, we quote the fol-
lowing allowance Of a maid Of honor
in England in the year 1924:
By TIE KING-We will and COM
mand you to allow daily from hence
forth to our right dear well beloved,
the Lady Lucy, into her chamber, the
diet and fare hereafter ensuing.
First-EveTy morning at breakfast
one chine Of beef al our kitchen, one
chele loaf and one mauchet % at our
pantry bar, and a gallon Of ale at our
buttry bar
Item-At dinner a piece Of beef, a
stroke Of roast y, and a reward at our
said Kitchen, cast o., tle finest sort
Of bread; q a piece OF roast beef; Of
chete bread 81, at our pantry bar,
and a gallon Of ale at our buttry
/ bar.
/ Item-At afternoon, mauchet at
our pantry bar, and half gallon Of ale
at our buttry bar.
/ Item-At supper, a mess of pOrage, a
niece of mutton and a reward at our
said kitchen, a cast of chete bread at
our pantry, and a gallon of ale at our
bUttry. EE4 t
Item-At after supper, chete loaf
and a mauchet at our pantry bar, a
gallon of ale at our buttry bar and
half a gallon Of wine at our cellar
bar, &c.
Given under our signet at our man
nor of Easthampstead, the Xvth day
of July, the 18th year of our reign.
TSigned1 HENRY.
Directing our attention to the north
of Europe we find that Theodore Twin
ger, in his work entitled ''The Thea
tire of Human Life" states that there
was once an actor who was accustOm-
I ed to eat as much as would suffice for
| ten men, and on account of his inor
dinate appetite attained to mighty
corpulency. The King of Denmark,
being informed that he could do no
more than any other man, caused
/ him to be taken and hanged "as a de-
vourer of the labOrer's food and pub
lie annoyance" .'' 500
Could we, like Puck, place "a girdle
round the wOrldin forty minutes we
might be able to ascertain, for the ma
iOrity of the Italians are not proven
bial for their intelligence, that there
was a distinguished physician Of that
country by the name of Jerome Fa-
bricius, who died in 1903. This writ
er relates two cases of men who were
in the habit of ruminating like COWS.
One of these human chewers of the
cud was a monk, who rejOiced in an
other bovine characteristic, his fore
head being adorned with a pair of
horns. The other ruminant was not
so adorned himself, but was the son of
one-horned nobleman of Padua.-
Fabricius dissected him, and clearly
proved the falseness of Bartholin's
theory that human ruminants possess
ed double stOmachs.
Returning to England, we learn
that in the year 1903 man was pre-
seRted to James l., whose sole claim
for attention was that he could eat a
whole sheep at one meal. The mon
arch asked, "What he cloud do more
than another manmp and being an
swered, "He could not do so much" ;"
said, Hang him then, for it is unfit a
man should live that eats as much as
twenty men, and cannot do so much
as one.n
Allowing three years to pass in the
onward course of time, we find that
Justus LipsiUs, a Flemish writer, who
died in 1908, states that "Uguccto Fa-
giOlanus was one ofthe tyrants of TIA
ly, and his abode, for the most part,
was at Lucca, till he was forced away;
being therefore, a banished man, and
withal aged, he boasted at the table of
CAMS Scaliger, and VeronO, that when
he was young he could eat four fat ca
pOns and as many partridges, the
roasted hindqUaTters of kid, breast
of veal, stuffed, besides all kind ofsau-
ces, at one supper"
When Charles GustavUs, King of
Sweden l1611-1632), was besieging
Prague, a poor man of a most extraOrdi-
nary visage desired admittance to his
tent, and being allowed to enter heOf-
fered, by way Ofamusement TO devOur
a large hog in his presence. The old
General Koenigsmark, who stood by
by the Kings side, limited to his roy
al master that the peasant ought to be
burnt as a sOrcerer. "Sir," said the
fellow, irTitated at the remark, "if
your Majesty will but make that old |
gentleman take off his sword and |
spurs, I will eat him before 1 COM
mence the pig" General Kenigs-
mark, who at the head of a body of
Swedes, performed wonders against
the Austrians, could not stand this
proposal, especially as it was accom-
panied by most hideous expansion
of the jaWsand mouth. Without ut
tering a word the veteran turned pale
and suddenly run out of the tent, nor
did he think himself safe till he ar
rived at his quarters.
TO BE CONTINUED.
A Rich Prize,