Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-08
Price Four Cents

piece of shoat supposed to weigh about 1
 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 8 hand-stick than
 any man on the ground. In order to show his strength, he took 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 twenty fve-cent smack" Mr. Lawson has an honor able rival in MT. Joshua Joynes, a gentleman weighing 250 pounds and owning to sixty summers, who last summon sat down to din- ner at Onancock, Accomac county, Va, and
 ate fifteen pounds of pork, twelve links of bologna sausage, souse from one large hog, one large goose, one full grown chicken, one peck Of sweet potatoes, one dozen large bis cults, one large mince pie and six cups of strong coffee. Mir. Joynes sat down to this re- past at o'clock, and at 2:3O he had disposed of every article named, picked the bones of the fowls and taken glass of egg-nog. Not long ago, in Paris, gentleman known as the Jackal, on wager, ate 4 feet of blood -pud- dlng In twenty minutes, washing it down with half gallon of wine, thus proving him self worthy to sit down at the Gargantuan repasts In Fiji, at which, according to Miss Gordon Cumming, one sees served twenty buildings, the largest being twenty feet in circumference
 James l. treated the question of gluttony from harshly practical standpoint when, a distinguished citizen having been presented to him who ate sheep at meal, but could do no more than folk who contented them
 selves with solitary outlet, he desired the
 execution of the man as tione that eats as much as twenty men, but cannot do the work Of one." What would he have done with
 Clodlus Alpinus, who devoured a bushel of apples at once, and for breakfast rendered
 account ot 800 figs, 100 peaches, 10 melons,
 70 pounds of grapes, 400 oysters and 100
 gnat- snappers? Or with Phagon, that dis
 tinguished subject of Aurelianus, who man. aged at a single meal to eat a boar, sheen
 and a pig, with 100 loaves of bread and three
 gallons of wine? Hardicanute, James, pre-
 decessor, earned honorably the title of
 Sw1nesmouth, though he satisfied himself
 with four meals day One Mallet, a coun-
 sellor at-law of the time of Charles l., quite
 eclipsed Haydn or the queer customer of
 Paris cafe mentioned in a recent
 issue of the World, as on one occasion he ate
 dinner provided in Westminster Hall for
 thirty people, and, his practice not proving
 equal to his desserts and the preliminary
 courses, had in his old age to content himself
 with banquets of beef's heart and liver Mic
 olas Wood, of Harrison, in Kent, was justly included among Fuller's "Worthies," among
 his claims to fame being the deglutition at one meal of whole sheep, at another of 3GO
 pigeons at another of eighty-four rabbits, at a fourth of the victual provided for thir- ty men, at a fifth of eighteen yards of blood pudding and at sixth of whole hog, accommodated with three pecks of dam son plums. Master Nicholas had on one oc- casion very narrow escape. According to Tayler. the water poet, if he had not been scrupulously annointed with oil and butter he would surely have died, but Sir
 Warham St. Leger nursed him round, and then put him in the stocks. Two loins of mutton and one loin of veal were but as three sprats to this eater" After all he was per- haps outdone by the distinguished boor who visited the camp of Charles Gustavus, offer ing to eat pig by way of paying his footing, and when General Konigsmark denounced him as sorcerer, volunteered to eat the Gen. eral would he but lay off his sword and spurs, opening so large 8 mouth that the general, one of the heroes of his time, took to his heels and ran.