The Morning herald., 1875-08-28
THE HERALD.
WILMINGTON, AUGUST %, 1875.

WILMINGTON, AUGUST %, 1875.
TMF APPETITEs OF GREAT MEN.
Great men are great eaters would proba-
bly, be the first exclamation Of one who was
given to over-hasty generalization. There
would, indeed, BE- many examples to sup
port such rule. Charles ", for instance,
was an enormous eater. We are told that
he breakfasted at Eve on fowl seethed in
milk and dressed with sugar and spices.
After this. he went TO sleep again. He
dined at twelve, partaking always oftwenty
dishes. He supped twice; at first soon after
vespers, and the second time at midnight or
one o'clock, which meal was, perhaps. the
most solid Of the four: After meat he ate
great quantity Of pastry and sweetmeats,
and he irrigated every repast by vast
draushts of beer and wine His stomach,
originally wonderful one, .s,'ccumbed
aAer forty years Of such labors. Il
Frederick the Great ia another illustra-
ton Of the rule. Though he could dine on
q cup Of chocolate in war time, he loved
good eating and drinking, and undoubtedly
hastened his death Sy refusing to conform
m any way to proper rules Of diet.
The King wrote Mirabeau, who was
IN Berlin at the time, eats every day Of
seu or twelve dishes at dinner, each very
highly seasoned; besides, at breakfast and
sspper, bread and butter, covered with
salted tongue and pepper: We are at the
last s@ne.' No wonder. A short time BE-
Are a gentleman dined with Frederick
when IN eel-pie was brought to the table,
which he declared was no hot that it
looke.. ss il it had been baked in hell.
The King was immoderately fond Of these
sel-pies peppered to excess. But about
nix weeks before his death, We have the
record Of breakfast such as a sick man
hss rarely eaten. Our authority is again
Nirabeau. 'On the 4th Of July, when the
Doctor saw the King in the afternoon, all
had again changed for the worse. He had
applied himself to public business from
lalEpast three in the morning till seven:
He then ate for his breakfast plate O
sweetmeats, composed Of sugar, white of
eggs. and sour cream; then Strawberries,
cherries and cold meat" He was then
entering from dropsy, and his death speed
ay followed, August ", 1886.
William Of Orange OH. Of England)
both ate and drank more than was good
for him. He loved to sit many hours at a
table; indeed, dinner was his chief recrea-
Ion. Nothing must interfere with his en-
ryment; the Princess Anne might look
wstfully at that dish Of young peas, but
De looked in vain, for the King ate them
al. and never even offered her spoonful.
Among other sovereigns we find the great
Napoleon . voracious eater. Some one
kas attributed the loss of the battle of
Lipeic to the effects of a shoulder of NUT
tn stuffed with onions, with which the
Emperor literally gorged himself, 50 "a to |
become incapable Of clear-minded and Wig
Gous action. He ate very fast. The state |
ban(uets at the Tulieries lasted about |
hirty-6ve minutes. On the other hand,
ke was ~ lever Of wine !
hscaulay tells us how, when Peter the
0reas visited England in the year 1898,
he immense quantities of NEST which he
aevuured, the pints of brandy which he
and which, it was said, he had
awefally distilled with his own hands,
vere during some weeks, popular topics Of
!
Great ~ was Peter, he might have found
He peer in the Roman Emperor Maximin
"a. D. -23S), who could eat in any day
lbsty pounds Of n,eat and drink six gallons
4 vine-unless the historians lie, which,
n all probability, they do.
Elsgabalus loved to sup on the tongues
4 peacocks and nishtingalcs; he fed his
hoos on pheasants and parrots. His ma
jesty would also give rest to the pleasures
4 the table BY assembling companies of
guests who were all fat or all lean, or all
all Or all short, OF all bald or all gouty.
Tho pages Of Suetenius, and, the later
Roman writers are replete with tales Of
slutony and epicureanism, C~sar-.he
essar We mean-was, according to Cato, o,the
only sober public man of his party in Rome.
We wonder if the Pilgrims in Philadelphia
are not copyists of the Roman Ring, which
sverthrew the Republic. As guest,
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