Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-10-20
AN OMNIvOROUS COLONEL.
Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies, Horse
Live Fish, Hear, Etc.

Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies h"''S'
Live Fish, Bear. Etc.
A man who processes to nave eaten
more different kinds Of foods IN more
different climes than any other man
living today or than any other man
that ever lived In any other time u
Colonel Newman Davis of London.
~ was dining once with a japanese
family In Tokyo" says the colonel
"when queer covered dish was
| brought 10 the table The servant re
| moved the cover disclosing live fsn
! wrlggling and Topping inside the dish
"They then proceeded to Kill IL De
| fore my eyes and offered me portion
to eat. ate 1t too. 1t was OF pecuf
lar taste, but not unpleasant
Next to Japan. China oners the
greatest array of marvellous dishes.
have eaten many disagreeable Things
In China-merely for the experience Oh
course. Among these were sea slugs,
sort of oyster, and fattened puppy. Inc
| most disagreeable, however. was OH
of cold pigs liver wrapped around d
prune. There was no escape for me
from eating this, though tried 10
avoid ii. My neighbor at the taple
picked up the liver and the prune with
his chopsticks and held them before my
Inns. / could do nothing but open my
mouth and allow the combination to be
inserted. because it is considered sig
nal honor in the Celestial Kingdom 70
have a fellow guest offer you dainty
morsel in the aforesaid manner.
1.-THE fattened puppy tasted some
thing like baked sucking pig. The
| puppy is fed on rice and milk for sew
eral months before it is killed TO De
eaten, and the flesh is tender and quite
palatable.
"In Africa-the Transvaal-1 have
lived on trek cattle, hedgehogs and 9th
er things. They tasted peculiar.
81 have often eaten fried serpent IN
Africa. This did not appeal to me-
however. 1t tasted something like az
eel Of an inferior, oily sort.
"Roumania is the only country where
have tried bear. The meat OF the
animal from which had steak was
much like the stringy flesh of an OK OF
questionable age. I believe the best
bear meat is that from a small species
which inhabits Kashmir and when
feeds mostly on wild fruit.
turkish restaurants were more ac-
ceptable than q person would be leo
to believe. One of their most noted
, dishes is joint of lamb boiled to
shreds and the small pieces eaten with
the fingers.
"Horsehesh I have eaten in South
Africa. to return to that country again.
1t was at Ladysmith this was served
because there was nothing else. The
flesh of the horse is unsatisfactory, as
ii is sweet and tough. Our men al
Ladysmith became tired Of it.
There is one wild beast l have mol
partaken Of. and that is lions flesh.
have never heard of this being eaten
but should imagine from the nature
of the beast the flesh would be dry
/ and stringy, coupled with rank taste
y The lion is lacking in fat. l shot sew
. eral in India, but their bodies were
f nothing but hard muscle. 1t is the
=. same with the buck you kill in India
v and Africa. The animals are destitute
o of fat.
IS II think Monte Carlo is the most ex
II pensive place in the world to dine
- One cannot get any kind Of respecta
- BILE meal there for less than $50 or $50
For every glass of old brandy there
YOU will be asked to pay $3.50. II
Paris there Is some cognac bottled be
fore the battle Of Waterloo which com
, mands So a thimbleful." What to Eat
French Army an Unknown Quantity
In that huge army, active and terri
~ torial, there may be Napoleon or
m Won Moltke, but he Is lost in tn
80 obscurity Of peace. And, moreover
~ the enormous fighting machine whic
IS France maintains at cost OF nearl
=, S2OOOOOOOO a year has never bee
"a tried. The day after the disastrou
3f treaty of Frankfort was signed Franc
20 set about arming the nation. She too
o. as a model the army Of her conQuerol
- Thousands of millions she dispensed t
create an army on Prussian lines
Quite as much she has spent in late
" years In changes and modification
which have tended to eliminate a
80 that is Prussian. The French arm
% today is an unknown quantity. Th
IL one thing known definitely is that tn
M French are about the best material
90 Europe out of which to forge fgh
dS ing machine, and if the army goe
M not to Austerlitz, but to Sedan, tn
. fault will lie not with the men Of tn
iIy sword, but with the general stan an
M, the tete d'armee.-SuccesS.
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