The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-06
A HEALTHY ZULU.
He Surprises Ornithophagous st. Louis
Lunatics by Eating Three Ouails
Day, Bones and All.
MIR. Henry Dahmer's Varied Tribulationl
While Performing Difficult Feats
in GastrOnOmy.

benedlctuS, me New iork correspondent OIL
the LIGHT, has made trip to ST. Louis, from
where last Thursday he sent the following en-
tertaining letter.
Over hundred persons gathered about the
platform in the Dime Museum at half-past 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when announce
ment was made that Ozoviel, the Zulu, would
begin his task of eating 80 quails in 10 days,
consuming three birds at a meal on each day.
The quail had been ordered of Froebel, a
restaurant keeper in the neighborhood, and;
unacquainted with Zulu table manners, he had
sent the three birds, broiled on toast, accom-
panied by a knife and fork and white
table-cloth. The food was laid out neatly
upon a little table on the platform, and
the Zulu was introduced to his banquet.
Ozoviel glared at the birds eagerly, pumped
himself down in the chair, looked in a ques
tionng way at the rablecloth and knife and
fork, and then forgot himself again, as the
savory fumes from the broiled birds reached
his nostris. He caught up quail with both
of white teeth and cracking of birds bones,
and half of the quail was gone, only the little
end of the leg bone
REMAINED IN Ink ZULU y HAND.
The other half of the bird disappeared with
equal rapidly. About minute was occupied
in the performance. Then Ozoviel laughed
and said something about the audience or to
them, and caught up another bird. He took
a great bite out of the breast, threw his
head back, and apparently swallowed the
morsel whole. In another minute the re-
mainder Of the second quail had gone. Then
ne cd nj II h..
| which the bird had been placed and looked
at it suspiciously; he evidently did not know
just what it was, but the odor suited him, and
it disappeared as had the quail. The third
| quail went the way Of the other, though not
quite SO rapidly, for the Zulu stopped to say
| something to his companions, who sat beside
| him laughing. The whole meal was eaten
inside Of FIVE minutes and at its close Ozoviel
dubbed his stomach contendedly, though APP
parently ready for more quail. The Zulu girl,
the only one of the party who has learned to
| talk English, was questioned as to what Ozo-
Wells comments were when at his meal. She
said he had told the white people that
| THEY LOOKED HUNGRY
and that he had made some retort when one
of the other Zulus asked him why he did not
| try to use the knife and fork and what the
| white cloth was for? He said, too, after he
got through, that there were not birds enough
and that he would eat all they would bring him.
| The female Zulu said that Ozoviel could eat
much more than three birds day because, in
| their own country, man could eat the whole
intestines of sheep and that they liked meat
the best of all food. She thought it foolish
| ness to make a fuss over such little meal
Ozoviel was eager for $3.50 to come again to-
day, when he gets his three birds again. The
audience yesterday fairly reared with amuse-
ment at the Zulu's fierce appetite.
! Mr.. Henry Dahmer, the gentleman who has
bet with Mr.. Thomas Wood that he will eat
IS quail in IS days, still eats his broiled bird
regularly at noon at Tony Faust's, but his
| friends claim that the most atrocious and alto
gether dispicable means are resorted to that
he may fail in his undertaking. Each day,
when he is at his meal, group collect about
him who relate in his hearing what evil things
| come to men who eat too many quail. They
diet they speculate upon the degree of nausea
which must attend the excessive consumption
of this sort of food; they wonder what pro-
portion Of birds put upon the market
DIED A NATURAL DEATH,
and they discuss the question of whether or
not the flesh of quail, more than that of other
DlrdS, Is infested by parasites. This Is the
sort of sauce Mr.. Dahmer has for his dainty
bird and it is alleged, with great show Of
reason, that Mr.. Wood has something to do
with the romancing. The Zulu has the ad-
vantage of being undisturbed by such COM
ments. He does not understand the language
and it would make no difference to his qualm-
proof stomach if.he did.
1t is minated that it will be difficult to
get birds for the completion of tests
now in progress, but there will probably be
no difficulty about this, as some pro-
tective association would not object to having
!he requisite number of birds placed on ice
and used only for the purpose designated.
There are plenty of quail in market and to
allow these few to be eaten will not neces-
sarily lead to other infractions of the law
Other gastronomic feats than quail, eating
are stilled proposed on all sides, in all society.
A gentleman who belongs to the Home circle,
and one or two other fashionable clubs, Of
fered to make a wager yesterday that either
Fred Crunden or Tony Miltenberger would
eat 100 plates of ice cream in 100 days.
Corpses Handled by the Deis.
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