Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-05-01
UnbONndel Stonlachs.

True guttony. like true charity, hath no
locality, no tone provincial, no peculiar
Garh. From the period of the Roman en-
pire, down TO the present day there is a
bright roll OF magnificent or mighty feeders
a glance ut which is not without interos,
Fitelll'ls-wh0m Mr.. Slas Wegg very pron-
eriy named Fittle us--spent $1,000 ON
a month for seven months, on his table
when the number ofconvives is considered
ANU the price of the dishes-a ton of rare
l'sh and three and a-half tons of rare birds
al one banquet, in days when fanciers paiJ
S''2' FORA red mullet and st apiece for pip-
eonS-the expenditure NAV not seem exreS.
sive
n man might cat Of i S26 900 dish of birds
tongues, yet not be in the strict sense of the
word: glntton and nightingales tongues,
'he hrains OF phesants and peacocks and the
roeS OF the rarest and most delicate fishes
were were not only favorite, but common
ulshes among the elite of imperial Rome,
Acllogahaus is credited with spending 800
ooO at one supper and Nero with eatipn
dish costing Sl50,oo0 and washing it down
with bumper still more costly.
MaNiminian, who ate forty pounds of
meat and drank five gallons of wine at a
rcpast, could at least allege his size. Not
SO the average Sutton--not so, indeed, the
modern glutton. Thus only Il few months
ago there died at Kingston, n. Y, Alex-
ander Grant, familiarity known as the
"kindcrhool glutton," who without any
inconvenience would devour twenty hounds
OF solids at sitting, washed down bv not
less than gallon of milk aud coffee. We
read that five pounds of beetsteak were
regarded ny him as but an appetizer, and
unless such side dishes as a peck of potatoes
whole boiled cabbage, big pie and com
pietc pudding were proviucd, also, he in
sisted that he had only lunched." Though
ne has lett lis, and his loss we deeply feel
we are not without some consolation in the
tIct that Squire Carey still is left us-Souire
Carey, OF Waikiki, whom his admirino
friends duh "the man with the rubber
stomach
y dispatch OF recent date informs rs that
tAe Squire swallowed a halfgallon mcsl,re
ilii OF oysters and four large plates of
crcEcr. He then offered 10 eat six quarts
more OF oysters if any one would pny for
'hem. hut his offer was not accepted. 1t is
said that ut one sitting Carey has eaten
4tW CLAIMS. and at another a a-halr barrel of
shell oysters
AS compared with him may be cited Mr..
'kom, Lawson, Allensville, y. c., who on
election day last yearatc" one and -hahuuar-
ters mutton, eighteen biscuits, one pound
candy, two half grown chickens Eve her.
rings, one loaf corn-bread, Il piece of shoat
supposed to weigh about one pound, drank
three 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 q
hnnd-Stick than any man ON the ground.
In order to show his strength he took man
that weighed two hundred pounds and car
ried him about over the ground in his teeth
he then went up ID another table and called
tor TWENTY-FIVE cent snack"
Mr. Lawson has IN honorable rival in Mr.
Joshua Juyncs, Il gentleman weighing two
hundred and fifty pounds and owning TO
sixty summers, who last summer sat down
TO dinncra Onancock. AccOmac county, Va,
and ate fifteen pounds Of pork, twelve links
OF Bologna sausage, sollse from one large
hog. one large goose, one dozen large bis
cults, one mince pie aud six cups Of strong
coffee. Mir. .inyncs sal down to this repast
at one o'clock, and at $50 he had disposed
of every article named picked the homes of
the fowls and taken 4 glass Of egg-nog.
Not long ago. i'll Paris. gentleman
known as the Jackall, on u wager, ate Al
feet OF blood pudding, in fifteen minutes,
washed il down with a gallon of wine, thus
proving himself worthy TO sit down at the
Garguatan rcpasts in Fiji, at which, accor-
ding to Miss Gordon Cumming, one sees
served twenty puddings. the largest being
twenty feet IN circumference.
James |. treated the question of fgluttony
from harshsy practical standpoint when
distinguished citizen having been presented
to him who ate L sheep at meal, but could
do no more than folks who contented them
selves with solitary outlet he desired the
execution Of the man us ''One that eats as
much as twenty men, but cannot do the
work ofonc."
What would he have done with Cladius
AIpnlE, who dcrourcd bushel Of apples at
once, and fora breakfast rendered account
of5(D figs, l0opeaches, 10 melons, 20pounds
ofglapes. 100 oysters and lG0 gnat-snappers?
Or with Phagon, thai distinguished subject
of Aurelianus, who managed at single
meal to cat a boar, a sheep and q pig, with
100 ioavcs of bread and 3 gallons of wine?