Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-08
Men of Unbounded stomachs.
Soma of the Great Gluttons of TO-Ds y
 and all the Ages That Are Past.

soms of the Great Gluttons of To-Day
 and all the Ages That Are Past. From the New York Sunday worldl
 True gluttony, like true charity, hath no locality, no tone provincial, peculiar garb.'' From the period of the Roman Elm pire down to the present day there is bright roll of magnificent or merely mighty feeders, glance at which is not without in- terest It is not very easy to classify the gluttons of classical times, for be- tween the man who merely feels and consumes an immense amount of proven der and the man who squanders large fortune on expensive meals there is or may be vast difference For In stance Vittellius-whom MT. Silas Wregg very properly named V1ttle- -us-spent s. 000,- 900 a month for seven months on his table. When the number of convives is considered and the price of the dishes-a ton of rare fish and three and half tons of rare birds at one banquet, in days when fanciers paid $325 for a red mullet and $4 apiece for pigeons, the expenditure may not seem excessive. A man might eat of 8 $25,000 dish of birds tongues, vet not be, in the strict sense of the word a glutton, and nightingales tongues, the brains of pheasants and peacocks and the roes of the rarest and most delicate fishes were not only favorite but common dishes among the elite of imperial Rome. Helioga- bolus is credited with spending $100, ,000 at one supper and Nero with eating dish cost ing S150, ,0OO and washing down with bum per still more costly, but this proves nothing, unless it be the sheer idiocy and wastefulness of the convives. A different aspect is touched upon when the question is approximation did they eat? And when 1t is stated that Verus incr ased the number of guests from nine to twenty, and made his supper coter- minous with the dark, that Nero sat at the table twelve hours, that Tiberius and Vitel- Illus sat there all the time they were not in L Lot Qt in his hath and that Domitian carried round classical sand wich to stay his hunger between meals, 1t must be admitted that most of these noble diners were gluttons.
 Maximinian, who ate forty pounds of meat and drank five gallons of wine at a repast, could at least, a1lege his size. Not so the average glutton-not so, indeed, the modern glutton Thus only few months ago there died at Kingston. in this State Mir. Alexan- der Grant, familiarly known as the s'Kinder- hook glutton," who without any inconven- fence would devour twenty pounds of solids at sitting, washed down by not less than gallon of milk and coffee. We read that five pounds of beefsteak were regarded by him as but an appetizer, and unless such side dishes as half peck of potatoes, whole boiled cabbage, big pie, and a complete pudding were provided also he insisted that he had only lunched" Though ne mas le1t us, and his loss we deeply feel, we are not without some consolation in the fact that Squire Carey still is left us-'Squire Carey, of WalkiI, whom his admiring friends dub ssthe man with the rubber stomach" A dis patch of recent date informs us that the iSquire esswallowed half gallon measure full of oysters and four large plates of crackers. He then offered to eat six quarts more of oysters if anyone would pay for them. but his offer was not accepted. It is said that at one sitting Carey has eaten 400 clans and at another half barrel of shell oysters As compared with him may be cited Mir. "Rom'' Lawson, of Allensyille, N. C., who on cleo tion day last year ate II 1-2 quarters mutton, IS biscuits, 1 pound candy, half grown chickens, 5 herrings, loaf corn bread and