The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-02
OYSTER Eaters.

| Lamb. prehistoric man inserted his
| fingers within the shells Of prehistoric
oyster, and having them pinched APP
piled his digits TO his mouth tasted the
liquor OF the oyster, and invented the
benign science Of ostroaphagyD Any
way, around the names OF all the great
OF the earth. in all ages, there is Il
deathless halo of oyster shells The
ancient Greeks and Romans were great
devourers of oysters, which, we learn
from Pliny, were OF three colors-yel-
low, black, and brown, delighted TO be
transferred to new waters, and some
times grew TO the size of a foot, so that
it took three bites to dispose of one of
them. There were nine famous beds
from which the markets Of Rome were
supplied, and il is recorded that the
first man who took to artificial breeding
did so 10 make money, not out OF love
for the oyster, Oyster shells cured no
end Of disorders, and, powdered, were
employed as dentifrice. The Romans
believed that oysters ate best in the full
of the moon, Horacc's preference was
for those of Circcl; Yitellius put away
twelve hundred of the biyalyos at one
| luncheon, "OysterS raw. ~ many as
| you like is usually the first entry on
the menus Of classical entertainments
that have been preserved for our dclcc-
tation. Louis VII. of France, who
died in 1926, so keenly appreciated his
cooks way of cooking the oyster Of
which he was so fond, that he gave him
patent of nobility and aliberal annual
allowance. Louis ri. gave annual oys-
ter suppers to the College Of the Sor-
bonne-the pupils Of the College of
France had long before that been in the
habit of rehearsing their disputations
over oysters-until at one merry meet
ing "A learned doctor fell into the Seine
and was drowned. Bently, the great
classical scholar, never could pass an
oyster-stall without stopping at it, to
talk about oysters if he could eat no
more, and in l740, two years before his
death, and just at the conclusion of the
twenty-seven years lawsuit to eject him
from the mastership Of Trinity, to which
DeQuincy has devoted such fascinat-
ing essay, he wrote to friend: "My
great relief and amusement here is my
regular supply of oysters. These things
must have been made in heaven; they
are delectable, satisfying, delicious, and
mentally stimulating in a high degree"
Pope, a lover of Holsters, was extreme
" partial to oysters stewed, and letter
of his to Lord Bolingbroke exists, offer
ing TO accept an invitation to dinner,
but only on condition that there was "A
dish of stewed oysters. Thomson, who
ate peaches on the tree with his hands
in his pockets, greatly loved oysters,
and died Of over-indulgence in them,
or of exposure in boat on his way to
have feed of them. johnson, fancy,
loved oysters. know he went to mar
ket to buy them for his cat when the
footman was too proud to do so. Gold
smith did, and devoted an interesting
chapter in his animated Nature" TO
them, telling how he knew horse that
was fond Of eating oysters, and how the
oysters of India are two feet big, and
one of the natives of Coromandel
furnishes meal for ten men. No
animal, "Noll'' tells US, will venture TO
open the oysters shell, which, like too
many statements in Animated Nat
ure, ;" is not strictly true, since, apart
from the starish and other marine enc
mics, the oyster is the prey OF bird,
the hOD0tOpuS, the "bloody foot of
English popular ornithology and the
oyster-tisher of America.
The oyster-shops of Paris were great
| political centerS during the revolution,
| Robespierre, Danton, and Couthon hav-
ing one favored haunt near the prison
OF La Force, and Brissot, Condorcet,
and the other Girondins affecting RI
val establishment near the site of La
Bastille Peter the Great always had
oysters served in two or three ways at
! his meals: fraternized with the old oys-
ter-women of Woolwich ship-yard, and
dignifed the dealers of Moscow and st.
Petersburg with the title of his life
preservers. Juno ate three hundred
oysters every day before breakfast dur
Ing the oyster season, and Cambaceres
was long regarded as the champion
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