The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-22
ODD and costly DINNERS
NUMBER THAT WE'RE REMARK
ABLE FOR THEIR COST
AND KIND
THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF ONE
Pictures of Misery shown the Guesta
With Each COurse-The
Most Novel of
Them All.

Lord Playfair once said that a man
can keep strong and healthy for week
on three pounds of meat one pound of
fat, two quaItern loaves, an ounce of salt
and five pints of milk-cost about go cents.
The plucky Mafekites fought hard on
food that a tramp would not have paid
a nicl1st day for.
The Worshipful Company of Girdlers es-
innate that the luncheon given by them
to the secretary Of state and members OF
the council of India a few weeks ago
amounted to something over $4,000, 900
head.
There were seventy-five guests present
on this memorable occasion, so the bill
foots up $4,000, 900, enough to run the
whole British government for about sew
enteen months.
Two hundred and sixty years ago Rob
ert Bell, master of the Girdlers, ordered
from the East India company a carpet
which came to the then unheard-of price
Of $3.50. Somehow or other the bill never
was paid. Recently the present master
of the Girdlers, the Lord Mayor, discover
ed the debt. He made a little calculation
OF what the bill came to with compound
interest, and was Mortified to find it
amounted to $685. 100000 Not wishing to
shirk his obligations, the Girdlers sug-
gested lunch as q way of squaring mat
ters, and their creditors accepted the sug-
gestion and the feast.
DINED WITH MISERY.
a Polish prince who lives in a splendid
house in the Avenue du Bots de Boulogne,
Paris, used to be regarded by his &C
Quaintances as miser because he never
entertained Last winter fifty of his
friends were astonished by an invitation
from him to dinner. They went and sat
down TO a magnificent feast in a huge
room, one end of which was covered by
q great screen of white silk. Oysters
were served on beds of powdered ice,
when suddenly the electric lamps died
away, and on screen flashed out a liv-
ing picture of women standing shivering
knee-deep in freezing water, picking oys-
ters from the rocks. With the fish course
a smack was seen pitching SO heavily that
the guests cried in terror. "Oh, they will
be drowned" Men and women next ap-
peared working in the vineyards on a wet,
misty day, ankle deep in gray slush. With
every magnificent course fresh scenes of
misery passed in silence before the sad
dened guests. The prince had revenged
himself for their cruel remarks, but at an
estimated cost of over $40, 000
In Liverpool lives a rich ship owner,
who, a couple of years ago, befriended a
young Chnaman who was stranded in
the city without money or friends Last
March to the ship owners address came
a curious foreign case, which had been
consigned to him from Shanghai. 1t
proved to be a present from the young
Chinaman, recognition of the kindness
shown him, and was full of all manner
OF curious Chinese delicacies. Among tins
of sharks fins and birds nest soup was a
jar filled with peculiar brownish paste.
A letter explained that this was a com
blnation Of peanut buds and ginger jelly.
AT the base of the kernel of a peanut
is a little cone-shaped formation sur
mounted by two microscopic leaves. The
nuts are first roasted, and then these
minute growths extracted by hand. II
takes about $4,000 of them to fill a teacup
AS a result the cost of this CONNECTION
was $40 and ounce, and the lunch at
which the merchant treated five friends
to this and other delicacies cost $50 a
plate.
Ortolans are so tiny that one makes
only couple of bites. They are not com
mon birds, and the trapping of them has
TO be done by means of trained decovs
Ihen each little captive is Gagged scpa-
Tately and carefully fattened on a specia1
olet. An Englishman who had eaten This
dehcacy in Italy ordered course of orto-
ian at London restaurant at which he
was giving dinner party. Forty dollars
mead was the addition to his bill.
HAD BOILED EGGS.
When you are asked to a smart
luncheon party you hardly expect the
nrst course to consist of nothing h,,t
hard boiled eggs. This was what a New,
York millionaire offered to his twelve
guests one warm day this spring. Emf
disappointment turned to curiousity and
pleasure when it was discovered that the
eggs mad been first blown and then filled
win dehclous frozen clear soup. Mullins
formed the next course of this weird
banquet. Those who had not refuced
them discovered a beautifully cooked tim
bale lncl0sed in each. Potatoes baked in
their jackets then appeared, and each
was found to contain a deicately roast
ed snipe. And SO on to the end of this
remarkable luncheon, every course Of
Which hid something new and entirely
different to its apparent character. The
cost Of this meal came to the modeGt
sum Of $1,000. The same milianaire who
is noted for his extravaganza in table
matters, recently paid $i5 a bottle for
some dozens of wine which at the time of
sale was only two years old 1T was not
generally considered the most expensive
OF liquors, but 1t was a Rhine wine from
the private vineyard of Prince Meter
men. This vineyard is on a hill so steep
that every atom of the work including
the hauling of the grapes, is done by man
power. The sun shines on the cliff at
certain hours only, and this and the rich
ness of the soil are said to be responsible
for the delicious favor of the product.
MOST NOVGL Or DINNERS.
dinner which, though the actual
dishes cost no specially heavy sum, vet
proved expensive to its giver, was one to
which a Paris doctor invited several
patients last November. After dessert
the doctor made little speech, in which
he Informed his guests that, as he had
lately discovered that his own life was
not worth days purchase, he had gath
cred round him those of his acquaintance
whom he considered to be likewise doom
cd. He then proceeded to specify to his
Mortified hearers just what was the mat
ter with each, and how much life each
might consider left to him or her Before
he got far 4 lady tainted. The men then
threw their host out of the room The
lady died from the shock and her rela-
tives brought suit against the doctor.
who, before his own malady carried him
of, had to ray $4,000 as the cost of his
cruel entertainment
ONE TJTTNDREn IMAM