Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10
STRANGE HUMAN BEINGS.
Wen who Have Differed from tho
Ordinary Run.

| Among the people ii at have become
| remarkable by their differing from
the ordinery run Of humanity, Char
les Domery, called 'the Voracious
Pole excited great wonders in his
day. He enlisted ia the French ser
vice, and was captured by the English
in 1899, and immured in a Liverpool
prison.
When in camp, if bread or meat
were scarce, he made up the deficiency
by eating fouror five pounds Of grass
daily In one year he devoured and
skinned ia cats, dead and alive.
When very hungry he did not wait to
kill them before eating. He also ate
dogs and rats, and even their entrails,
if food was scarce. When the ship
surrendered on which he was on board,
finding nothing to eat buta mans leg
that had been shot off, he began to
eat it, when a sailor snatched it from
him and threw it overheard.
In the Liverpool prison, although
he was allowed double rations, he de
voured everything he could get from
the other prisoners, and would even
swallow their medicines He daily
ate raw bullock liver, three pounds
of candles and several pounds of raw
beef, and all they would give him of
| beer or water His stomach revolted
at nothing and retained everything
The doctors, wishing to try how
much he could eat in one day, tested
/ him. At in the morning he broke
| his fast by eating four pounds of cows
adder, raw. During the day which
was hot and his appetite poor ne con
sumed, in all, cows udder, four
pounds; raw meat, 10 pounds; can
dies, two pounds. and five bottles of
porter. He strained his appetite on
this test occasion, because the other
prisoners frightened him by telling
HIM the doctors were going to expert
ment on him.
The greatest eater that ever lived
existed IN the days of old Pam, in the
beginning Of 1900. His name was
Nicholas Wood, of the county of |
Kent One of the writer's of the time
says
He did eat with ease Il whole sheep /
and that raw. at one meal; at anoth- /
err time thirty dozen of pigeons.
AT Sir William Sedley's banquet
he did eat as much as would suffice
for thirty men. At Lord Waltons, /
at one meal, he did eat four score and
four rabbits.
On one occasion he devoured /
eighteen yards of black pudding. He
made an end of a whole pig at once,
and after it three pecks of damsons /
At another time he ate six penny |
loaves, three siX-penny veal pies, one
pound of butter, one good big dish OF |
thornbackan a peck loaf, in the space
of an hour.
Peter, the wild boy. was found in
1875 in forest near Hanover walk I
ing on his bands and feet, climbing /
trees like a squirrel, nude, and feeding |
on grass and moss.
With difficulty he was caught and /
taken TO Iell, Hanover He was un-
doubtCdly human being, and was
supposed to be about thirteen years of /
age, but could not speak, consequent /
~ no information could be obtained .
from him as to how he came TO be liv- I
ing among the wild beasts.
After several times escaping to the /
woods, Peter, as they named him,
was taken to England and exhibited. /
He had hardly any ideas, could I
scarcely be induced to wear any
clothes, add could not sleep in a bed, /
but slept crouched in a corner. which I
led to the supposition that he had
always slept in tree for security /.
against wild beasts He could never /
be taught to converse, though he /
would get out a few words.
George l. gave him a pension and /
placed him with farmer to live /.
Peter was a giant for strength, though /
his height was only five feet. He
acquired many civilized habits, such
as an overweanlng fondness for
liquor He was of gentle DISPOSE /.
ton, notwithstanding the savagery of
his early life, but could never be in
duced TO notice the fair sex. He Il
died at the supposed age of 73 How
human being came thus deserted
in the woods has ever remained "a
mystery.
The very first living skeleton and
from whom all subsequent ones take
their name, was Claud Scwrat born
i'm France in 1897. He was tall, and
would have been well-shaded had
there been any flesh upon him, bat
every bone in his body could be seen. |
His arms were compared TO an ivory
flute, and the abdomen seemed 10
cling to the vertebr9. He made a
fortune by exhibiting himself and
went to his native place to enjoy it,
but suddenly expired soon after his
retirement