The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-11-18
NUMBER 43.
Us OF UNBOUNDED sToMACHs.

pire down to the present day there Is a
bright roll Of magnificent or merely mighty
feeders, a glance at which is not without in
terest. It is not very easy to classify the
gluttons of classical times, for between the
man who merely feeds and consumes an i'm
mense amount Of provinder and the man
who squanders large fortune on expensive
meals there is or may be a va st difference. -
For instance, Vitellius-who Mr. Silas Werg
very properly named Vittle-us-spents s.. 600
600 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, i'm days when fanciers paid
1926 for red mullet and 81 apiece for rig-
cons, the expenditure may not seem exces-
sive. A man might eat of n $4,000 dish of
birds tongues, vet not be- in the strict sense
Of the word, a glUtton. and nichtencales'
tongues, the brains Of pheasants and pea
cocks and the rCes Of the rarest and most
delicate fishes were not only favorable. but
common dishes among the elite and imperial
Romans. HelioCohalus Is creditadvf.h spend
ing $780, 600 at one supper and Nero with
eating dish costing $50 600 and washing
il down with bumper stiil more costly. but
this proves nothing. unless 1t be the sheer
idiocv and wastefUlneSs of the cOnvives. A
different aspect is touched upon when the
question is approached-How did they eat
And when il is stated that Verus increased
the number of guests from nine to twenty.
and made his supper coterminous with the
dark. that Nero sat at table twelve hours.
that Tiberius and VfteIius sat there all the
time they were not i'm bed. that Commodus
ate in his bath. and that Domitian carried
round a classical sandwich TO stay his hun
GER between meals, il must be admitted that
most Of these noble diners we've gluttons.
MaXiminian. who ate forty pounds of meat
and drank five gallons of wine at a rapast,
could, at least, allege his size. Not so the
average CiUtton-not so, indeed, the modern
glutton. Thus only a few months ago there
died at Kingston, in this State. Mr. Alexan-
der Grant. Familiarity known as the 'sKin-
deThoOk CiuttOn." who without any incOn-
venience would devOur twenty pounds Of
solids at a sitting washed down by not less
than a gallon of milk and coffee We read
( that Give pounds Of beefsteak were regarded
by him as but an appetizer. and unless such
side dishes as a half peck OF potatoes,
plete pudding were provided also he insisted
that he had only lUnched.'' - Though he has
left rs, ard his loss we deeply feel. we are
not without some consolation in the fact
that Squire Carey still is left us-'Squire
Carey, of Waikiki, whom his admirinp
friends dub ''the man with the rubber stom-
ach,'' a despatch of recent date informs US
that the squire Swallowed half-raIlon of
. oysters and four large plates of crackers
He then offered to eat six quarts more of
oysters if any one would pay for them but
his off er was not accepted. ]. is said that at
one sitting Carey has eaten 400 clans and At
another half barrel Of shell OYSTERS As
. compared with him may he cited Mr. Rom
? lawson, Of AliensviUe, \. c.. who on elec-
ton day last year ate '1Jy quarters mutton
+ Is biscuits, l pound candy. . haIf-erowu
. chickens, : herrings. loaf corn bread and'a
/ piece of shoat supposed to weigh about l
pound, drank quarts of water and said he
hadn't eat half enough. He then offered TO
bet he could throw any man or lift more
with a hand-stick than any man on the
ground, In order to show his strength he
took a man that weighed 200 pounds and
carried him about over the ground in his
teeth. He then went up to another table
and called for a 55-Cent snack" Mr.. Law
son has an honorable rival in STr. Joshna
. Joynes. a gentleman weighing $50 bounds
and owning to sixty summers, VINO last
summer sat down to dinner at Onancock,
. AccOmaC county, Va, and ate fifteen pounds
. of pork, twelve links Of Bologna sausage,
. sOuse from one large hog, one large goose,
. potatoes. one dozen large biscuits, one large
mince-pie and six cups strong coffee. AIr.
Joynes sat down to this repast at / o.
clock, and at 2.30 BE had disposed Of every
article named, picked the bones of the fowls
and taken a glass of egg-nog. Not long ago
in Paris. a gentleman known as the Jackal
/ on wager, ate AZ feet Of blood pudding in
twenty minutes, washing 1t down with hall
a gallon Of wine, thus proving himself wor-
thy to sit down at the Gargautuan repasts in
Fiji, at which, according TO Miss Gordon
Cumming, one sees served twenty puddings
the largest being twenty feet in circumfer
ence.
James l. treated the question OF gluttony
from a harshly practical standpoint, when
distinguished citizen having been presented
10 him who ate a sheep at a meal but coul,
do no more than folk who eontented them
selves with a solitary outlet, he desired tn
execution Of the man as cone that eats q
much as twenty men but cannot do the worl
of one What could he have done wit
Clodius Alpinus, who devoured a 0ushel O
apples at once, and for a breakfast rendere
account of 800 figs, 100 peaches, 10 melons
20 pounds Of grapes, 400 oysters and 10
gnat-snappers Or with Phagou, that dI.
tinguished subject Of Aurelianus, who mar
aged at a single meal to eat a hear, a shee
and pig, with 100 loaves Of bread and thre
gallons Of wine2 Hardicanute, James
predecessor. earned hunorably the title {
Swinesmouth, though he satisfied himse
with four meals a day. One Maliet, a coui
sellor-at-law of the time Of Charles l., quit
eclipsed Haydn or the queer customer of
Paris cafe mentioned in a recent issue
The World, as on one occasion he ate dir
ner provided in Westminster Hail for thirt
people, aud, his practice not proving equi
TO his desserts and the preliminary course
had in his old age 10 content himself vii
bauQuets OF beef-heart and liver. Nichols
Wood Of Harrison, in Kent, was justly incl,
4 ded among Fuller's "Wortbies, among b
claims 10 fame being the 1egluttion at on
meal of a whole sheep, at another of 81
pigeons, at another of 81 rabbits at anotht
Of the victuais provided for thirty men, .
Z fifth Of eighteen yards Of bloOd-puddin
and at a sixth Of a whole n0g, accommodate
with three pecks OF damsOn plume. Maste