Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-29
STORIES OF GLUTTONY.


SIOHIES Of 0CO tOtNt.
A Peculiar Protest Against Convention
ality In Feeding.
Why are new dishes so scarce? The
inquiry is prompted by an attractive
article in the July Cornhill. The au-
thor of Strange Food" may be re-
garded as registering a sort OF protest
against conventionality in feeding.
He experimental on stewed jackdaw
and squirrel cooked in the same fash
ion at an early age. and relates an
amusing anecdote of a jagged cat
being set before too epicurean par
son. on the pretense that it was an
other kind of puss. On learning that
he had devoured a large cat the gour
mand was taken ill, and was for some
days In great danger-he said because
OF the character of the meat; his
friends said that his indisposition was
traceable to the enormous quantity he
managed to dispose of. The writer
some fish and certain plants are poi
sonous hardly any animal, in mOdera-
ton, is unwholesome. Then we have
a gossipy list, including horses. dogs,
cats, hippopotami, mules. elephants,
rats "a particularly clean animal.
much enjoyed. in a pie. by the late
Rev. j. G. Wood). hedgehogs, weasels.
stoats, lions. carrion. rhinoceros,
seals, porpoise Especially the livery.
the walrus. whales. sharks. the sea-
unicorn, reindeer, lizards. bears.
frogs. toads, offers, skunk. mice.
wolves. camels. and various insects
these. we are told. land indeed almost
every creature that runs or flies. are.
in some part or another of the globe.
In nearly as much favor as venison.
pheasant and sucking-pig among us. :"
The conclusion of the article gives
some CHASTITY gluttony stories. in
which the wild child of nature"
figures in a light that is very unro-
mantle. The Hottentots, Bushmen
and savage South African races gen.
orally are enormous gluttons. Ten
of Them" says Barrow, late in my
presence the whole of an OK all but
the hind legs in three days, and the
three Boesmans that accompanied my
sion in less than twenty-four hours. :"
In cold climates such feats as these
would only be triles, and Parry and
Ross have recorded cases that, were
they not we'll attested. would pass be-
lief. Sir Edward Parry once tried the
capacity of an Esquimau scarcely fully
grown. and this interesting young
pfriv in, fvyo Nv hO,
to devour four pounds four ounces of
the raw, hard-frozen flesh of a sea-
horse, the same quantity of it boiled.
one pound twelve ounces of bread and
bread dust, a pint and a quarter of
rich gravy soup, tumbler of strong
grog, three wine-glasses of raw spirit
and nine pints OF water. Sir John
Ross, indeed. believed that the daily
rations of an Esquimau were twenty
pounds of flesh and blubber. but, in
extenuatiOn of so enormous con-
sumption as this the severity OF the
climate must be taken into account.
Captain Cochrane, on the authority of
the Russian Admiral Saritcheff, tells
how one of the YaEuts had consumed
the hind quarters of a large OK in
twenty-fOur hours, together with
twenty pounds of fat and proportion
ate quantity of melted butter. AS the
man had already gorged himself in
this disgusting fashion it hardly
seemed possible that he would be able
to consume any more, but the worthy
Russian Admiral. to test him. gave the
savage a thick porridge of rice, boiled
with three pounds of butter. weighing
together twenty-eight pounds. The
glutton sat down to this abundant
banquet. although he had just par
taken of breakfast. and, without STIR
ring from the spot or showing any
sign OF Inconvenience. got through the
whole. Captain Cochrane adds that a
good large calf. weighing 200 pounds,
will just make meal for four or five
Yakuts, and that he has seen three OF
them consume whole reindeer at one
meal. The feats of English working
men on their annual club feast day,
would surpass belief: A leg of NUT
ton has not been found too much for
one man. DIR. Darwin, of Shrewsbury,
the father of Charles Darwin, had the
local reputation of being glutton,
and is reported to have called goose
"a favorite Salop dish-..an inconven.
lent one. as being too much for one
and not enough for two"