Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-23
Men of Unbounded stomachs

President Lincoln was shot, The lot 1s now valued at $40, 900.
 Men of Unbounded Stomachs Notes Upon the AccompIIshd Famine
 Breeders of This and Other Lands and Ages.
 From the New York World
 A While America as a country is demonstrat- ing her ability to feed the world, not . few American citizens are, unless the cont0mpo rarv press is fearfully and wonderfully nnisin- formed, engaged in heroic attempt to con- gume the surplus provisions of the Continent and starve out the millions Of Europe. A Chi nsse resident of Pioche, New. for instance, has distinguished himself by eating four and half pound chicken and nine. bowls of rice at one meal. An American of African des. cent at Brunswick, Ga. who had previously eaten eighteen shad at one meal, with bread in proportion, was backed not long ago to eat at a sitting twenty loa7es of bread and dol lars worth of fat bacon, and had made away I with nine of the loaves and half of the meat when the bystanders interfered. MT. Henry ! Edgerton, of PearsaIls, L. I. is described as having eaten in an hour and half thirty seven hard-boiled eggs and two minoe pies, ! the repast being ''washed down"-the locu- ! tion is eminently proper when such meal is | in question, but nowhere else, as it makes one think of a sink-with half gallon of ale. | At Vanderbilt Landing, s. I. tramp, to whom an unsupicuous philanthropist had g1V- en an unlimited order upon restaurant for ! the assurging of his appetite, devoured one | plate each of mutton stew, roast veal, corned | beef with cabbage, and roast lamb, two plates I of salmon 8 plate of tomatoes, a lobster salad, ! an apple pie and four hard boiled eggs, top | ping of" with three bottles of Scotch ale and | a cigar. MT. James O'Donnell, of Madison, | Ind. after eating quail day for month and then doubling his ration, applied himself ! seriously to such feats of deglutition as the eating of two dozen goose-eggs in fifteen l minutes, of goose weighing eleven and half pounds of five cans of sardines in ten minutes and of three dozen oysters rolled Tn brown sugar. The late MT. Peter Ellison, of Waterford, in this State, was moro accom- plished performer in 8 much moro legitimate field. He ate at one meal 8 twenty one pound turkey with dressing and bread, and was named to devour a bird weighing twenty three pounds, but the late Mir. Morrissey pre- ferred to pay forfeit. In match at Sned1ker's Long Island resort the competitor to take the stakes who could eat the most bro1Ied ! spring chicken, this great man was hailed the victor with score of 32 half chickens, equal l to 16 fowls. MT. Ellison was net the only great eater in New York. The late Mir. Alex ander Grant, of Kingston, never cared for beefsteak that weighed less than five pounds, and when he dined demanded half peck of potatoes, a whole cabbage, big pie and 8 large pudding for his own exclusive eating, O gallon of coffee or milk. Squire Carey, Of Waikiki is credited with eating at one repast 400 clans and at another half a barrel of shell oysters and thinks nothing of eating half a gallon of raw oysters, with crackers to match his friends, who know that his stomach IS in the right place, will back him to assimilate six quarts of the biValve with which the name of Dando has hitherto been associated when it was 8 question of veracity. Mir. Romulus Lawson, of Allensville, N. O.. is another fa- mine breeder of eminenc0, who devours at one meal three-eighths of mutton-ono and half quarters 1.-two. half grown chickens, pound of bacon, five herrings, loaf of corn bread, eighteen biscuits and pound of caR- dy. Mir. Joshua Joynes, of Accomac Co. Va is man of stomach almost as un- bounded, who has, in an hour and half, dis posed of goose, chicken, fifteen pounds of pork twelve links of Bologna sausage, peck of sweet potatoes, dozen biscuits,
 mince pie and six cups of strong coffee. For rivals to these performers 1t is necessary to go back to the beginning of the century in
 England. The Sporting Magazine records
 that wig-meker of Wantwick ate in tho
 space of an hour three pounds of beefsteak,
 nearly pound of bacon, ten boiled eggs,
 large quantity of potatoes and a foHr-penny loaf, drinking two gallons of ale and porter during the repast and seven large glasses of
 brandy and water. He was prepared to re- peat the performance with the addition of W1g-DOX or A AOuOo0
 whose name has not been preserved, made
 away in two hours with three gills of lamp
 oil, twenty raw eggs with the shells, shil Iing's worth of strong ale and @ penny loaf soaked in train-oil Sporting annals tell that Lord Barrymore, fired to emulation by the account of yokel who ate a cabbage, pound of salt and 8 cabbage net at sitting, wagered
 that he would produce man who would de-
 vour 8 live cat, but it is not recorded whether
 the match came off. According to Fuller's
 ''Worthies, Nicholas Wood, of Harrison, in
 Kent, ate such meals as whole hog, with
 three packs of damsons, eighteen yards of
 black pudding, eighty-four rabbits, thirty
 dozen pigeons and raw sheep, to say noth
 ing of the dinner provided for thirty men.
 ''Two loins of mutton and one loin of veal,
 it is said, ''were but as three sprats unto
 him." A lawyer of the time of Charles l.
 named Mallett is said to have eaten the shil-
 ling head ordinary" prepared for thirty of
 his brethren. These feats compare very
 favorably with those of the gluttons famed
 in classical literature. It must be remember
 ed, however, that the luxurious Romans sat
 at table for hours. Versus's supper lasted
 from dark till dawn-and made use of both
 appetizers and emetics. Under such cir
 cumstances spossibly-deduction being made
 for the classic chroniclers' fondness for round
 fgures-Clodius Alpinus may have disposed
 of 400 oysters 100 gnat snappers, 10 melons,
 20 pounds of grapes, 800 figs and 100
 peaches. It is possible that Phagon ate
 at one meal sheep, a pig and 8 boar, 100
 loaves of bread and three gallons of wine,
 but no one need believe the story who is in
 clined to do so There is, however, no req
 son to disbelieve the tales which have come down to us of the gluttony of Vitelhus, who,
 when he wore the imperial purple could not
 prevent himself from falling upon the char
 red carcasses of the sacrifices, or the coarse
 viands exposed in the cook shops of Rome. He wss simply the victim of an uncontrol- liable appetite, and the same disease can be traced in the cases of many other historical eIuttens whose feats of devouring have been authenticated by competent observers. In
 so far as the great majority of contemporary gluttons are concerned, their records will
 not stand investigation with the steel yard and quart measure.