St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-04
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.

Prof Carl Lumh0lz passed through
the city Yesterday on his way 10 the
Pacific coast. The book among Can
nibals." written by the pr0fessOr,is hav-
my large sale both in this country and
in England and Germany. The professor
is a pleasant, chatty gentleman, and
while in the Ryan TOtunda entered INTO
q lively conversation with
GLOBE representative, respecting
the preferences of cannlbals Tor
different kinds of human flesh. PROF.
LumhoItz in the course of his remarks
said: "In my investigations among cam
nibalS | gathered that white man was
10 good-too salty. Chinaman was not
half bad. He fed on rice, and had a
tender vegetable flavor about him, like
mealy caullflower. But of all varieties
there was nothing SO sweet as native
baby-sO sweet, so juicy, so fat. so
tender. Old men and women were
naturally tough and sineWy. And the
favorite parts were the thigh and the
flesh of the hand"
DR.. Edward Pierce, returned Afri-
can missionary. is in the city. the guest
of college man, William Macarthur, OF
Minnehaha street. Dr.. Pierce has spent
five years in Africa, most of which was
in the Uganda territory. He talks very
interestingly Of Africa and its people,
He said: There is a mistaken notion
that the African in Africa is bar
barian. 1t is true that some of them
are, but the majority are far from
being so. Africa contains 130.00O.0O0
negro inhabitants outside of the MoorS
and people Of Arabic descent. One OF
the finest nations of Africa is the
FOulah, which numbers about $4,000
souls. These people are all Mcdonnell
ans, and write their own language IN
Arabic characters, also speaking, read
ing and writing Arabic. They make
their own guns and guupoWder, and as
fine leather work as ] ever saw. Ihey
are governed by sultan, and each man
is eD5itled to four wives: Their eos
tunes are similar 10 the Turks. They
have many large cities. but will not
allow strangers to visit them.
Mr.. Pierce, continuing. said the most
beautiful race of negroes are the Jal0tf.
from which the beautiful negroes of
Louisiana were brought. In Africa
pOlygamy was rule, and the proper
ton of females born was two and one
halt to one of the males. He knew an
African-a king-Who had 23S wives.
5S4 children and 1850 slaves. Every
one Of the children resembled the king
to such an extent you could not fail to
recognize them after once seeing the
father. The white man could not exist
II Africa. He would not multiply. and
degenerated under the climate.
Arthur Arnold, talking to group of
gentlemen in the Metropolitan last
evening, told two stories about children
which have very natural color. The
first concerns William FitZroy's (0f
University avenue) two boys, the eldest,
Cyril, and the baby" Viyien. Cyril.
four ears old, bewildered his family
one morning by announcing that he did
not mean to say his prayers any more.
IL was pointed out to him that he must
pray God to make him good, but he de-
INJURED that he did not want to be made
good at all, and was not going to pray
for what he did rot want. Papa EltZroy
persevered for long time without
making the faintest impression, but he
felt more than rewarded for all his
efforts when, after prOtracted alterca-
ton. the young philosopher offered a
compromise, and said he wouldn't mind
praying God to make baby good. Fitz-
Toy moralized delightcdly over this, and
said it was human nature all over. We
are all anxious to have other people
made good, provided we are not troubled
ourselves, only we have not the candor
TO say so. Children were often the trueSt
cynicS.