Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-18
MEALS EATEN
IN ODD PLACES
BLONDIN MAKES AN OMELET
ABOVE NIAGARA
FALLS.


feats was making an omelet while
balancing on his rope at a dizzy
height. When crossing Niagara he
performed this culinary exploit, which
in many strange situations, not the
least being above the Thames, which
he crossed more than once.
The summit of Salisbury's spire was
used as kitchen in 1865. when a
plumber named Handley, having sur
mounted it's height of 400 feet, pro-
ceeded with the utmost nonchalance
to cook an ample repast, consisting of
a shoulder of mutton and a couple
of fowls. Again, in 1862, when the
same spire stood in need of repair,
James Grist. to whom the job was en-
truster, cooked and ate a dish of beans
and bacon, to the establishment of the
crowd collected below.
On one occasion five adventurous
spirits. under the leadership of GER
tain Pierre ROubaud, taking with them
cooking utensils, scaled the spire Of
Bayeux cathedral. On reaching the
gigantic gilded statue of St. Michael,
which then stood on the summit. they
proceeded to cook their dinner, which
they ate with great guStO, much to
the amazement of the onlookers. whose
health they drank at the conclusion
of the feast
Descending from sky to sea we find,
one warm July day of 1900, the Amer
lean submarine Argonaut running
smoothly along So feet beneath the
surface. On board was a party of
guests invited by Captain Lake to
undergo the novel experience off par
taking, while beneath the surface, of
dinner cooked under water. The
meal was brilliant success, as, too,
were the supper and breakfast, served
six months later, under similar con-
ditions, on board the Holland boat Full.
ton.
A diving bell was some years since
utilized as a kitchen to supply a re-
past for half a dozen convives, who
for a wager, had undertaken to cook
and eat a dinner of half dozen
courses beneath the water This en-
tertainment which took place at Ma
pies. was held in emulation of a some
what similar achievement by six gen
tlemen who had used diving bell for
partaking of meal cooked on board
a barge moored near at hand.
In 1906 one James Austin laid a
wager of $500 that he would cook a
plum pudding ten feet beneath the sur
face of the Thames, near Rotherhithe
The bet was readily accepted, and
many people f1ocked to the appointed
locale to watch this strange exhibi
ton of the culinary art. Enclosed in
tin pan, in the center of a saCk
of lime, the pudding was lowered be
meath the water, where for two hours
and half it remained. 1t was ther
taken up and partaken of by a com
mittee, who declared that Austin hat
won his wager, the pudding being, l.
anything, overdone.
Once more mounting aloft. We cimf
the old elm at Walton hall to the
Platform erected by that eccentric nat
uralist, Charles Waterton, who enter
tanned thereon six acquaintances tC
dinner. The dishes were cooked or
another platform erected on a neigh
boring tree. whence they We're dis
patched to table by means of an in
geniOusly constructed cable way. The
entertainment was voted an unquali
fed success, the cook and assistants
who were hoisted aloft and lowered in
chains, covering themselves with cul
mary glory.
In the tower of Erfurt cathexlra
hangs a huge bell ten feet high ant
80 feet in circumference, weighing |:
tons. Within this, in July, 1913, ON
ed ten of the towns most opulent
burghers on dishes cooked in a kitch
en- temporarily erected on the bean
that supported the ponderous mass Of
tintinnabulary metal. To celebrate
this repast medals were struck. hav
ing on the diverse the portraits O.
the guests. and on the reverse the rep
resentation of the curious scene