Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-07-13

"The eaters OF my time" wrote
Uareme, in 1892, "wero tho Prince de
Ialleyrand, Murst Juuot, Fontanes,
tho Emperor Alexander, George w.,
and tho Marquis do Cussy. Mon who
know how to eat arc rs rare rs good
cooks. Look at tho great musicians
md physicians," he goes on, with on
thutsiasm; they arc all gastronomers;
witness Rossini and Boieldieu, Brous-
sais and Joseph Roques." Tho last
named backed this up with his trea-
tiso on Edible Mushrooms" main
tanning that doctors who mako name
-Corvisart, Brousssis, and half-a-
dozen others-aro cpicures for their
patients sake MS well rs their own.
rhey can got n convalcscent to ent
when nobody olso can--a fact which
explains their success. Modern Lon
don, too, we aro proud to say, can
boast its successful medical gourmets.
Dc Cussy-it is vain to expect an au-
thority from him-said TINT Leonardo
da Vlnci, Tintorctto, Paolo Voronese,
Baccio Bandinelli, Guido and Raphael,
wore all noted gourmands-a fact which
has not yet, perhaps, had its wo ght in
estimating the naive abstinence of tho
pro-Raphaelites. who might even havo
been vegetarians almost to n man, TO
Judge from the typo of thcir landscape
gardening. Mono of tho foregoing
great mon had tho beatitudo of diving
nc tabie like somo of tho smaller fry.
DIR. Gastaldy, n man with n wit and n
palato 80 often mot with in tho 1l-
Mdndch des Gourmands. died with
champngne-g glass in his hand and II Joke
hIq month, 80.
great-grandfather's doath was exactly
iiko-in fit of laughter, his lips still
wet with Ay. Here is II fact for Mr.
Galton: financial instincts, too, wcre
hereditary in this family of farmors-
general of the rovonuc.
Napoleon, ms all tho world knows,
ate very plain fool, and littlo of it,
though always with hunger and rapid
ly. ~ littlo claret was all ho drank;
u single glass OF Madeira would flush
his whole countennnco. lIo was neither
an cater nor judge of eating, wrote
Careme, but he was grateful (was he p
to M. do Talleyrand for tho style in
which ho lived. Ho differed widely
from that poor Stanislas Of Poland,
who fondly studied onion soup in tho
inn kitchen ut Chalons. Nopoleon had
q strange theory about his bilo. There
ls no personal defect that man can
not get himsolf to bo vain OF, for ono
reason or another.
Don't you know" said ho to tho
Comte dc Segur, "thnt every man that's
worth anything is bilious2 Ills tho
hidden fire. by tho holp of its excite
ment L SEQ clear in difficult junctures.
1t wins mo my bnttlel" Cnromo him
self ate sparingly and drank nothing
q sort of Moses IF tho promised land
by choice.
Tho skeleton Pnganini was an ap-
palling glutton, being only bcaton in
that by Cambnceres. Such men should
DO objects OF pity alone, like tho great
Athenian chef, Archotrastcs, who nte
enormously and digcstcd with ex-
traordinary rapidity. II could not
have boon assimilation, for, according
to Polybius, he looked rs if tho wind
would blow him away, and ono could
almost see daylight through him.
There is ono dear old story that al
ways comes up in talk about great
oaters; it has been told OF NIL sorts of
guzzlers, from city alderman to tho
Judge of appeal at Avignon, under
tho dncicn 9tgime. "And then, sir,
we topped up with gorgeous turkey,
n iirst-chop bird-never tnsted
iuicier-melt in tho mouth-crammc
with truIllcs 10 the oyes-bouauot is
no word for it-left nothing but tho
bones" "How many were you?
"Twol" "Whatl only two2" ayes.
Two. Why not? Tho turkey and
mysclfl"-London Saturday Reuie,o.