The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-08-23
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Vegetarians and ccrealunatics may
shudder to their hearts content over
the following list of foods dcvourcd by
different races of human beings, fur
nished by a writer in the Milling World
The Turks shudder at the thought of
eating oysters. The Digger Indians of
tire Pacific cost rejoice IN the great To-
Gust swarms of 1875 as dispensation
of the great spirit, and laid in stores of
dried locust powder sufficient to last
them for several years. The French
will eat frogs, snails and the diseased
livers OF geese, but draw the line at
alligators.
Buckland declares the taste of boa
constructors TO be good and much like
veal. QuasS, the fermented cabbage
water of the Russians, is their popular
tipple. 1t is described as resembling
q mixture of stale fish and soapsuds in
taste, yet next to beet it has more vO-
taries than any other beverage. 4
tallow candle washed down with quass
forms meal that it would be hard to
be thankful for.
In Canton and other Chinese cities
rats are sold at the rate of 80 cents a
dozen, and the headquarters Of the dog
are hung up III the butchers shops
alongside of mutton aud lamb, but
command a higher price. The edible
birds nests of the Chinese are worth
twice their weight in silver, selling for
as much as $50 a pound. The negroes
of the West Indies eat baked snakes
and palm-wormS fried in fat. but they
cannot be induced to eat stewed rab-
. hits Tn Afaxipn
but they are rather tough. The Qua
chos of the Argentine Republic are in
the habit of hunting skunks for the
sake of their flesh. The octopus or
deviltish, boiled and roasted, is eaten
in Corsica and esteemed a delicacv In
the Pacific Islands and West Indies
lizard eggs are eaten with gusto.
The natives of the Antilles eat alli-
gator eggs, and the eggs of the turtle
are popular everywhere. though up to
the commencement of the last century
turtle was only eaten by the poor of
Jamaica. Ants are eaten by various
nations. In Brazil they are served
with reslnous sauce, and in Africa
they are stewed with grease or butter
The East Indians catch them in pits
and carefully wash them in handfuls
like raisinS. Ia Siam 4 curry of ant
eggs is a costly luxury. The Cinga,
lese eat the bees after robbing them OF
their honey. Caterpillars and spiders
are daintieS TO the African bushmau.
After they have wound the silk from
cocoon the Chinese eat the chroSaliS of
the silkworIn. Spiders roasted are a
sort of dessert with the New Calcdoni-
ans.
A Bangor young woman one Satur-
day evening went into bookstore and
asked the clerk, whom she knew well.
to pick her ont good novel to read
next day. The novel was selected, and
the clerk deity substituted for it a
New Testament, made neat package,
and thought that he had played good
joke-on the girl. On Monday morning
he heard from the joke. The young
woman entered the store very white in
the face and banged the Testament
down on the counter. I'D have thrown
that in the fire" she said, IF there had
been any way in which | could have
made You pay for IT. I'll never buy
cents worth of you again so there.
Give me the book | bought on Satur-
day and then she hounced out of the
store.