Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-18

\ MS Oatn, anu tIial DOulillau CHttcu hOuuu
a classical sand wich to stay his hunger be-
tween meals, it must be admitted that
most Of these noble diners were 81 rttons.
MaxIminian, who ate forty pounds of
meat and drank five gallons Of wine at a
repast, could, at least, allege his size. Not
so the average glutton-not SO, indeed,
the modern glutton- Thus, only q
few months ago there died at kingston,
in this state. Mr.. Alexander Grant,
| Familiarity known as the kinderhoOk
giutton," who, without any inconvenience,
would devour twenty pounds of solids at
sitting. washed down by not less than a
gallon of milk and coffee. We read that
- five pounds of beefsteak was regarded
by him as but an appetizer, and unless
such side dishes as half peck of potatoes,
a whole boiled cabbage, big pie and a
complete pudding were provided also, he
insisted that he had only iuDched."
Though he has left us, and his loss we
deeply feel, we are not without some con-
ISOLATION IN the fact that Squire Carey,
of Waikiki, whom his admiring friend dub
"the man with the rubber stomach" A
dispatch of recent date informs us that the
Squire swallowed halt gallon measure
full of oysters and four large plates of
crackers. He then offered to eas six quarts
more of oysters If any one would pay
for them. bu. his offer was not accepted
1t is said that ut one sitting Carey has
eaten 400 clans, and at another half
barrel of shell oysters" As compared
with him may be cited Mr.. Rom" Law
son of Alleusvllle, North Carolina, who
ala Hatr lao ata md
half quarters Of mutton, eighteen bis
cults, obe pound candy, two half grown
chickens, five herriDgs, one loaf OF corn
bead and a piece of shoat supposed to
weigh about one pound, drank one Quart
of water, and said he hadn't eaten half
enough. lie then offered to bet he could
throw any man or lift more with 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 gr unG in his teeth. He
then went up to another table and called
for % cent snack" Mr.. Lawson has an
honorable rival in Mr.. Josnua Joynes.
gentleman weighing 250 pounds, and own
ing to 60 summers, who last summer sat
down TO dinner at Ouancock, Acconac
county, Virginia, 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 swee,
potatoes, one dozen large biscuits, one
large mlnce pie, and drank six cups of
strong coffee. Mr.. J1ynes sat down to
this repast at o'clock, and a. 2 81 be 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 u
wager, ate four and half feet of blood
pudding in twenty minutes, washing 1t
down with hall a gallon OF wine, thus
proving himself worthy to sit down at the
Gargantuan repasts in Fiji, at which,
according to Miss Gordon Cumming, one
sees served twenty puddIngS, the largest
being twenty feet in circumference.
James |. treated the question of glut
tony from a highly practical standpoint,
when, distinguished citizen having been
presented to hlm who ate a sheep at q
meal, but could do no more than folks
who contented themselves with a solItarJ
outlet, he desired the execution OF the
man as 8 one that eats as much as twenty
men, but can not do the work of one. "
What would he have done with Clodius
Alpinus, who devoured bushel of apples
al once, and for breakfast rendered
account of 500 figs. loo peaches, ten
melons, twenty pounds of grapes, 400
oysters, and 100 gnat snappers! Or with
| PhagoD, that distinguished subject OF
Aurelianus who managed at single meal
10 eat boar, sheep and pig, with one
I h,,p Ina of bread apH fr,lipp,
of wine2 Hardlcanute, James prede-
cessor, earned honorably the title of
Sw.nes mouth. One Mallett, counselor
at law of the time of Charles 1. quite
ecipsed Haydn or the queer customer
of a 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 pre-
liminary course, had in his old age to con-
tent himself with banquets of beefs heart
and liver. Nicholas Wood, of Harris IN
In Kent, was justly included in Fuller's
Worthless" among his claims TO fame
being the deglutition at one meal of u
whole sheep, at another 500 pigeons. al
another eighty-fOur rabbits, at a fourth
lut NlCLudlo lOl ~ u
fifth eighteen yards OF blood pudding, ami
at sixth of a whole hog, accompanied
with three pecks of Damson plums.
Master Nicholas had on one occasion a
very narrow escape According to Taylor,
the water poet, if he had not been scru-
pulously anointed with oil and butter he
would have surely died, but Sir William
St. Ledger nursed him round and then
put him in the stocks. 1.-Two IONS Of
mutton and one LON of veal were but as
three sprats to this cater" After all, he
was perhaps outdone By the distinguish
ed boor who visited the camp Of Charles
Gustavus, offering to eat q pig by way OF
paying his footing and when General
kon!gsmark denounced him as a sorcerer,
volunteered to eat the General would he
but lay off his sword and spurs, opening
50 large a mouth that the general, one OF
the heroes OF hls time. took to his heels
and ran