Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-18

RECENT PARIS BANQUET The horse
flesh eating society Of Paris have held another
haoouet, at which some sixty persons were pre-
sent, embracing Drouyn de LHuys, together
with other distinguished gentlemen aud num-
her of ladies. The dishes were made up Of
horse, mule ard donkey flesh, done up 10 all
The varieties of style for which the French
are famous The horse soups were pronounced
excellent while horse sausages we're equal to
the best from any other animal, and horse,
mule and ass tongues were compared With
those of OK and reindeer. Asses liver has
strong flavor, and is not recomme nded. Fllets
de mulets we're also failure; but fricandeaux
d'aue was pronounced tender aud juicy, with a
very agreeable favor. Fets de cheval rotis
have mixed favor of venison and beef Be-
sides these and other dainties the tables were
literally supplied with asses milk and butter;
salad dressed with horse oil, considered equal
to the best salad oil in use.
At the close of the banquet speeches were
made by NJ. Decraix, founder of the Comite
de la Viande de Cheval de Paris, who claimed
that horse flesh eating was an obsolete and not
new custom, which it is now proposed to re-
vive for the benefit of the poor Of all countries,
who, but for prejudice, would be dining daily of
good horse, mule, or ass flesh, now wastetully
thrown to the dogs. In conclusion. he an
pounced that medal and purse of five hun
dred francs will be given by the Society, TO the
first person who will open, iu London or New
York, horse butcher shop Wash. Chron.
HEALTHFULNEss OF THE JEWISH RACE
A contemporary states that accordlng'to statls-
tics gathered in France, Algeria and Prussia,
the Jewish race is remarkable for longevity
frop,
age duration of life exceeds that of Christian
races by about FIVE years. This tenacity of life
is due to the inheritance of sound physical
constitution and to the watchful care OF the
mother over her offspring. These two causes
insure the Jews comparative security from the
maladies that decimate other races Tschadl
states that the plague of 1346 did not affect the
Jews of any country. Frascati asserts that
they completely escaped from the epidemic oi
typhus in 1905 Rau mentions that the same
immunity irom typhus was observed at Ian
geons in 1924. According to Ramazz they
we're free from the intermittent fevers prevail
log at Rome iu 1901 And according to Deg
ner they suffered nothing from the dysentery
that ragged at Nimonguen in 1876. 1t is said
by other authorities that the Group is extreme
ly rare among Jewish children, and that they
have very little scrofula.
iug that animals used as food are free from
disease, and the abstinence from pork, may
produce exemption from scrofula is question
worth considering. The Jews. however,
whether through secondary agencies or not,
are preserved by Providence from extinction.
The FIRST REVOLUTION IN VIRGINIA.
Apropos of centennial celebrations aud ac-
counts of early resistance to British tyranny. w.
Noel Salisbury, who is making an index Of vir-
glDia state papers contained lp the Public he.
cord Office of Great Britain, writes to Colonel
Mcdonald, Secretary of State:
''The contents of this my sixth parcel en-
braces the period between 1925 and l640, or
the governing portion of King Charles First's s
reign-a period of the greatest importance 10
Virginia history, and embracing the two dis
tlnct periods of government of Sir John Har-
vey. The hope that the Virginia company
would be restored seems, even as late as l640,
not to have been quite blotted out OF men's
minds, which, perhaps, the names OF some OF
those on the sub committee for foreign plaDta'
tons helped to cherish. The first revolution 10
Virginia took place in April, 1885, which re-
suited 10 the forcible deposition of Governor
Harvey, the election oil John West 10 his stead
and the sending of Sir John Harvey home to
EuSiaDQ, WHICH Cdplalo Mattuons hopou
would be acceptable to God, not displeasiug to
his Majesty, aud an assured happiness to this
colony. The King sent Harvey back to bis gov
ernmeut the following year. 1t was only for a
brief period, for the veteran Sir Francis Wyatt
was appointed Governor in January, 1859, for
the second time, after an absence of thirteen
years from the colony.
THERE WAS, it seems, a deep and abiding
religious feeling in the early colonists of Amerl-
ca. Some gentle lyric, who has heard the com,
plant of the religious press that the oratars of
the Lexington celebration had not dwelt as they
ought to upon the pious ferver of the coonis's,
has, iu their aid, raked out Of the New
York Weekly Mercury of l776, letter from
Halifax correspondent, who narrated the
treatment received by person who refused to
pay debt for which he was attached, because
the writ was not stamped. 1t was at the time
of the stamp excitement, and the populace
were easily reused to patriotic Indignation,
otherwise pious exhortation. Seizing the stamp
demanding sinner, crowd placed him in their