Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-15
Instantaneous.
Unblushing GIutt0nS.

Elizabeth Charlotte. the Duchess OF Or
leans. writing under date OF December
5. 17lS. says: 1.-The late King. monsieur
the Dauphin. and the Due de Berri were
enormous eaters. I have often seen the
King eat four pla es of different kinds oil
soup. whole pheasant. partridge
dish OF salad, two thick slices Oh maui
mutton favored with garlic, Dla'eiul OF
pastry, and finish his repast with fruit ano
hard boiled eggs" There was good
old German from Wittemburg, where my
lord Hamlet attended the university, VINO
had fine faculty tor storing a"av pro
vender. His case is well attested. For
wager he would eat whole sheep or
whole pig, or put cut OF sight oushei o,
cherries. stones and all. He lived until
he was about 80 years Of age. great por-
ton of the time supporting himself oy
exhibiting the peculiarly of his appetite,
which. IT, saw the least must have been a
very eccentric one Thus, he would chew
glass. earthepware and flint into small
FRAGMENTS He had special preference
for ea,erpillars. mice and birds, aud when
these were not procurabIe he would con
tent himself with mineral substances.
Once he put down his ''maw and guilt
pen, the ink and the sand pounce, and be
would have gobb.e the inkstand, too, had
he not been restrained. TAYLOR, the water
poet. tells of Nicholas Wood, OF the
county of Kent, in England, who was "A
tolerablv good trenchrrman. On
one occasion he got away with whole
sheep; at another time with several rab-
bits at third with three dozen pigeons
well grown pigeons, not SOU lbs; again
with 10 Yards Of black puddlngs. and on
two other occasions 60 pounds of cherries
and three pecks of damsons. DIR. Cop
land, in speaking of two children who had
wonderful appetites, the youngest OF
wears old being the worst, said: 1.-The
quantity of food devoured by her was as
tonishing. E> erythng that could be laid
hold OF. even IN its raw state. was seized
upon most greedy. Beside other arti-
Giles. an uncook ed rabbit, half a pound of
candles ana some butter were taken at one
time. The mother stated that this little
girl. who was apparently in good health
otherwise, took more food if she could
possibly obtain it, than the rest OF her TAM
ily, consisting of six besides herself" A
trife over hundred years ago a London
youth ate five pounds of shoulder of
lamb and two quarts of green peas in 30
minutes and Polish soldier, who was
presented at the court of Saxony, sue
ceeded in one day in getting outside
OF 20 pounds of beef and half roast
calf, with the appropriate ''ixings.'
When George III. was king a watch
makers apprentice, 10 years of age,
in three quarters of an hour. devoured a
La g ;rhi ct a
proportionate quantity OF pease pudding,
washing all down with pint of brandy.
taken in two 'tots." The tall Nick
Davenport, the actor, is known to have
eaten a seven-pound turkey at a single
sitting. Instances of depraved appetite
are numerous, and men have been
known to swallow fire. swords, spiders,
flies, toads, serpents, cotton, hair. paper,
wood. cinders, sa1d, earth, clay, chalk.
flint, musket balls and earlhen ware.
One man could swallow billiard balls and
gold watches, In the New York medical
journals for 1922 record is made of a
man who could swallow clasp knives with
impunity. One day he overdid the bust
ness bv swallowing IA, and it killed him.
az well it might In 1870, in England,
two men of Wiltshire. wagered as to
which should consume the greatest
quantity of food in the shortest space OF
time One of them blotted from existance
six pounds and half of rabbit, a loaf of
bread, and two pounds of cheese in a
quarter of an hour. and he was so pleased
with the appreciation he received from the
bystanders that he finished Oft with a
beefsteak, pint and half of gin and a
half pint OF brandy Good Househeep-
ina.