The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-26

AN EARTH-EATING NATIVE DISCOVERED.
The speaker was John Roth, the famous
chef of great New York hotel, who was
making up a grand Thanksgiving menu.
He has studied carefully odd dishes that
are liked by epicures all over the world,
and can furnish a dinner for a native OF
Kamtschatka as easily as he can boil po-
tato. He was chatting about some of these
odd dishes recently and told what was
eaten all over the world. Some of the
dishes were odd indeed and would be des-
pissed in this country. Everything pos
sessed of life seems to be eaten in some
part of the world, as well as many inani
mate things. 1t seems TO be all a matter of
climate and association as to what shall be
chosen from the vast store. In South
America everything is eaten, even serpents
and lizards Children are said to have been
seen taking large ceutipedes out Of their
holes in trees and crunching them up with
great relish At Esmeraldi the rarest dish is
roast monkey. All the larger animals are
eaten Arabians, who are said to love their
horses so much think horse flesh great
luxury. In India, where the elephant
alive is so useful for locomotion, when dead
furnishes the natives rare dish. In Egypt
the camel alive is valued by all, and his
flesh is much sought after for food when he
is dead. The Chinaman has a variety of
tastes. He fancies small animals. He
thinks the greatest delicaces are cats, dogs,
rats and serpents and bears paws and birds
nest are tid-bits. The Pariahs of Hindos-
tan have odd tastes. They contend with the
dogs, vultures and kites for putrid carrion.
The inhabitants of Cochin China have a
taste almost as remarkable In this coun-
try the boarding house mistress gets into
trouble if the eggs are not fresh. In
Cochin China she gets into trouble if they
are. The natives of Terracena furnish
their guests with land or water cells. They
are considered as fine as terrapin. West
Indians have one of the most expensive
dishes ever made. 1t will cost as much as
SIS to furnish, and is nothing more than
the nests of the Java sparrow,
Earth is eaten by the natives of many
countries of the torrid zone, and also in
Sweden and Finland. In the latter named
countries hundreds of carloads of earth con-
tanning iafusoria are annually consumed.
This earth is usually mixed with bread.
The women on the Magdalena river seem to
relish clay as much as Fifth avenue belle
likes candy. They have frequently been
observed while shaping clay on the potter's
wheel to put Jumps into their mouths. This
probably takes the place of chewing gum.
In this same place children are very fond of
running out of their houses to eat the earth
Immediately after a fall of rain. The Oto-
mac tribe of earth-eating Indians knead the
earth into balls of or inches in diameter,
which they roast by weak fire until the
outside is hard. They remolsten them when
they are required as food, and according to
a missionary who lived amongst them for
twelve years, one of them would eat from
three-quarterS of a pound to pound and a
quarter of this peculiar food i'll day. The
natives Of Peru, Guinea, Jamaica, New
Caledonia, Siam, Siberia and kamtSchatka,
are also very fond of earth.