Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

WHY THEY DON'T EAT MEAT.
All nations of the East which have a
large number of Buddhists among them are,
to a great extent, non-consumers of meat.
The Buddhists believe their ancestors are
trotting around inside the feathers and un-
der the fur and hair of the animal creation,
and they believe it is a sin to take animal
life. According to the theory of transmit
grafton CT souls man may be chewing up
the choicest bit of his great grandfather's
body when he masticates tenderloin steak,
and the tenderest wing of this years spring
chicken may have trotted around under the
animation of his grandmother's SOUL To
people of delicate sensibilities possessed of
that faith which moves mountains such gas
tronomic remembrances would spoil their
feast. 1t is for this reason that the Bur-
mese and Siamese eat so little meat, and it
is largely due to this that you find but little
meat consumed in the greater part of India.
The meats of Asia are, however, very fine.
Western Japan has lately turned to cattle
raising, and you can get as good beef at
Kobe as you can at Chicago. 1t is largely
consumed by the foreign population of
japan. and a great deal is shipped to
Shanghai and Hong Kong. The finest NUT
ton in the world is raised in North China,
and there is no meat sweeter or better than
that of the fat-ta1led sheep O Thibet. saw
thousands of these sheep about Peking, and
in some cases the tail seemed to be almost
as big as the sheep. 1t grows, I am told, as
heavy as 80 pounds, and this is pure fat.
THOUGHTFUL SHEPHERDS.
In Mongolia the shepherds sometimes
make little sleds and iasten them to the
tails in order that the sheep may not be i'm
peded by dragging its own tail, and this tail
is considered the most delicate part of the
sheep. 1t is used by the Tartars in making
the tea soup which is so common an article
of diet among the Mongols. This soup is
made of brick tea or tea ground into dust
and pressed into the form of brick, mixed
with sleeps tail and water. When the
~ater has boiled lump of cheese as big as
an egg is thrown into the mass and it is
served steaming hot in wooden bowls to
guests. 1t does not sound very appetizing,
but it is greedily devoured in the cold re-
gions where it is made.
There is fine game all over China, and
you can get wild ducks for five or six cents
apiece. Ducks are cheap in Japan, and at
Peking 1 found the finest of venison, pheas-
ants and hares. 1 think the markets of
Peking are as fine as those of any capital
in the world, and the richest of the Celes-
tials live very well. Some of their dishes
are more costly than terrapin stew, and
DlrQ nest soup COSTS nVe collars plate.
1t is maoe from the nest of the swallow
found in the caves in some of the islands of
the Pacific Ocean, and the exporting to
China of these nests is quite business. The
material of the nest is made OF sea weed,
crushed by the bird in its crop and drawn
out in ibres with which the nest is woven
and fastened to the side of cliff. These
nests are seldom larger than three inches in
diameter. 1t is q big job to clean them,
and they are cooked with pigeons eggs and
spices into a soup. When cooked they look
like isinglass, and it takes an artist to pre-
pare them for the table.