The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-21
AN oMNIvoRoUs COLONEL.
Has Sampled Snakes, Puppies, Horse,
 Live Fish, Bear, Etc.
From What to Eat.

From What to Eat.
 A man who professes to have eaten more different kinds of foods in more different climes than any other man liv- ing today or than any other man that ever lived in any other time Is Colonel Newman Davis of London.
 "I was dining once with a Japanese family in Tokyo" says the colonel when a queer covered dish was brought to the table The servant removed the cover, disclosing live fish wriggling and Hopping inside the dish.
 They then proceeded to kill it before my eyes and offered me portion to eat. l ate 1t, too. It was of peculiar taste but not unpleasant
 Next to Japan, China offers the great est array of marvellous dishes l have eaten many disagreeabe things in China merely for the experience, of course. Among these were sea slugS, sort or oyster and flattened puppy. The most disagreeable, however, was bit Of cold pigs liver wrapped around prune There was no escape for me from eating this, though I tried to avoid it. My neiShbor at the table picked up the liver and the prune with his chopsticl1s and held them before my lips. I could do nothing but open my mouth and allow the comblna- tion to be inserted, because 1t IS consld- cred a signal honor in the Celestial King dom to have fellow guest offer you d dainty morsel In the aforesaid manner.
 "The fattened puppy tasted something like baked sucking pig The puppy Is
 fed on rice and milk for several months before 1t is killed to be eaten, and the flesh is tender and quite palatablc.
 "In Africa-the Transvaal-I have lived on trek cattle, hedgehogs and other things. They tasted peculiar T have often eaten fried serpent Tn Africa, This did not appear to me, how ever It tasted something like an eel or an inferior, oil sort.
 "Roumania is the only country where have tried bear. The meat of the animal from which had a steak was much like the stringy flesh of an OK of question: able age. I believe the best bear meat is that from a small species which in- habits Kashmir and which feeds mostly on wild fruit.
 ..Turkish restaurants were more accept able that a person would be led to be- lleye One of their most noted dishes is
 a joint of lamb boiled to shreds and the small pieces eaten with the fingers. "Horseflesh 1 have eaten In South All rica, to return to that country again. It
 was att Ladysmith this was served, be- cause there was nothing else. The flesh of the horse is unsatisfactory, as 1t IS | sweet and tough. Our men at Ladysmlth became tired of 1t.
 "rhere is one wild beast I have not partaken of and that Is lions flesh. ! have never heard of this being eaten, but | I should imagine from the nature Of the
 beast the flesh would be dry and stringy, | coupled with a rank taste. The lion IS l lacking in fat. l shot several in India 1 but their bodies were nothing but nara | muscle It is the same with the buck
 YOU kill in India and Africa. The ani- mals are destitue of fat.
 | q think Monte Carlo is the most ex- pensive place in the world to dine. One 1 cannot get any kind of a respectable meal | there for less than s15 or S20 For every l glass of old brandy there you will be | asked to nav S2.5O. In Paris there is some cognac bottled before the battle of Water
 loo which commands s5 a thimbleful.