Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
HUGE APPETITES.
FEATs OF EATING WHICH ARE
UNMATCHED In HISTORY.
How Kings aud Dukes Have GorScd.
and Commoncrs Have RivaIed
Haushticst Nob!cs-A Doc
tors Daily Meal.

1t is not difficult to make long list OF
the people both of the past and present
Time who had huge appetites, aud were
ut the same time good companions and
without physical ailments
All the Bourbon Kings of France were
gourmands. Louis XIV would cat for
meal four patefuls of soup, a whole
pheasant, partridge, a plateful of salad,
mutton hashed with garlic, two good
sized slices of ham, n dish of pastry, and
plenty of fruit and swcctmcats.
His unfortunate descendant. Louis
XVI, had large appetite, but no gas
Economical genius. This is said to have
caused much of his unpopuiarty with the
French who love 81 gastronomc His
favorite meat was pork, aud Parisians be-
licve that lie would have escaped from
France Ind he not tarricd to cat pigs
feet.
NJ. de Semblacay, Bishop of Bourges,
who ate six heavy meals day and never
rose satisfied. attributed his magnificent
appetite to the fact that nc said grace not
only before and after each meal but ut the
removal of each service
Modern Paris has been prolific of ccccn-
go every Thursday for years to the famous
restaurant kept by Philippe, no longer in
existence, and cat, one after the other,
the forty odd soups on the menu. After
that he had Il mcringuc giaccc an citron,
and went away without having drunk a
drop of wine.
Another individual went for n long
time on the fifteenth of each month to tho
Cafe Very aud ate sixty little pots of va
nilla ice cream without IA spoon, in the
way that hockey pokey is ordinarily esSan
here. He was the man who carrictfthe
head of the murdered Princess dc Lam
bale about the streets of Paris on pike
during the Revolution.
At the Cafe Hardy, now the Maison
dor, Il man was observed to cat the meat
of thirty-two outlets, swallowing large
pickle after each. He had high pile of
saucers at his elbow, and kept one of
them on the napc of his neck throughout
the repast. As each bccame warm he re-
placed it by cool one In this way, he said,
he avoided cerebral congestion, with
which he was threatened. His precaution
was to some extent successful, for he did
not die of cerebral congestion, but was
crushed to death by an omnibus
An amateur gourmand wished to enter
into an eating match with I.emardcay,
proprietor of the Rochcr lie Cancale.
"Shall we settle the menu ut oncc?" he
asked OF Lcmardclay. ,'Of what usc2n
replied the latter. ''Wc will eat what
ever there is, according TO the mornings
market. We shall commence with twelve
dozen oysters, twcnty-four outlets, three
capors-" "Each2" asked the chaI
longer. "Of course" said Lcmardclay.
"And for the rest we will take whatever
there is" The rash man went away and
did not come back
The well-known restnuratcur, Brcbant,
had a customer who was ashamed of the
immense appetite with which nature had
gifted him. He would 90 to Brcbant
aud order dinner for himself and eight
friends. He told the restaurant keeper
that he went in for military punctuality.
When his guests did not arrive at tSsAa1yS
pointed hour he ordered the WATERS to
serve, and ate all the nine dinners him
self, grumbling audibly all the while
about the impoliteneSs of his friends. He
carried out this farce habitually.
Sarvarin says that he paid IL visit one
day to his FRIEND the Cure of Brcgnier,
man of large stature. He found him at
table before noon and watched him eat
soup and bouilli, a leg of mutton
Ia royale,a fine capon, large bowl of
salad and the fourth part of cheese. He
washed down this little repast with bot
tic OF wine and n decantcr of water.
General Disson, also IL friend of Saw
arin, drank eight bottles of wine every
morning Mt breakfast without seeming to
feel any effects from it,
Englishmen of the last century habit
ually ate aud drank to excess. At Dol
ly's Chop House in Queens Head Pas.
sage, near Ludgatc Hill, in London, the.
ingenious anatomist and chemist, Doc
tor George FoTdycc, dincd every day for
more than twenty years. He believed
that, since many animals thrivcd on ono
meal day, so could men. He entered
the chop house at O'clock in the after.
noon. A silver tankard of strong ale, a
bottle of port and II measure containing
quarter of pint of brandy were i'm
mediately placed before him, and picco
of steak weighinga pound and half
was put on the grill. While the steak
was preparing he ate a grillcd chicken or
other similar morsel. Then he drank a
glass of brandy and started in to eat his
steak, during the consumption of which
he drank his ale and port. When he Ind
finished the steak he drank theFest of
the brandy. This meal occupied him
just one hour aud half, and tkytt he
hurried away TO his professional cHage-
ments. He took no other food during
the day.-Ncao York Sm.