Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-03-11
TERRIFIC EATERS,
THESE OLD CHAMPS
Raw Sheep and 30 Dozen
Pigeons an Appetizer for
One 6riton.

London Answers.
Tho champion suffer OF America,
who has thrown out challenge 60
"outcat" any two mon. might have
barred two OF our own giants OF the
past.
Nicolas Wood. OF the Kentish
Stomach. and Taylor. the Water
Poet were champions over all courses.
TO Wood. raw sheep. thirty dozens
Of pigeons. or four score and four
rabbits were fair meals. while sixty
pounds Of cherries he dubbed but
"wash meat" Again. once ne sat down.
ate whole hog. and followed II with
little dessert OF three pecks OF dam
sons.
BLACK pudding he tucked away by
the yard But here Poet Taylor claimed
q hearing. lie challenged Wood TO eat
at sittins as much "a would stretch
across the Thames anywhere between
London Bridge and Richmond.
Tho Emperor Charles V. would start
his day at 8 o'clock I'm tho morning
with fowl seethed in milk and dressed
with sugar and spices. Then he SUM
ecred again. His next meal was nj
noon. when ne dlned. partaking al
ways OF twenty dishes. Two suppers
came later. one after vespers (what
we might call a high tea). and the
other at midnight, or ] o'clock. the
d most substantial meal OF the four.
After meat. he disposed OF vast
quantities Of pastry and sweetmeats.
and the whole was washed down with
copious draushts OF beer and wine.
II took forty years OF such feeding
To make. not his appetite, but his
taste fail: he then began to find all
food insipid.
A man OF the name of Bushel under
took. for the trifiing bet OF one
guinea. 10 eat and drink in the course
of twenty minutes the following ar
tieles: Six pounds OF tripe. two dozen
large onions In sauce. two threepenny
loaves. three pounds OF potatoes, and
three pots OF porter. The whole OF
this. 10 the great astonishment of the
company. he devoured In fifteen min
utes. Such WAS his voracious appetite
that he exclaimed that II any man
present would treat him with a bum
per OF brandy and half as much more
N he had eaten. he would tuck IL in.
Not long ago a Berlin market por-
ter undertook. for a wager. TO put
away AT ono sitting six mutton chops.
twelve eggs. n goose. duck. six
pounds OF potatoes and twenty-five
pounds OF hay. Difficulties We're antici-
pated with the last course, and large
sums were laid against the accom-
pltrhment OF the feat.
The ingenious porter solved the dr.
nculty by calling for a cigarette after
be had finished the duck He then
Set light TO the hay, pounded the
ashes up with the potatoes. and swzl-
lowed the lot. After a heated discus
sion. the referee declared hip the
winner.
A Siberian soldier. notorious for the
Unsuitable appetite he possessed, once
disposed Of meal In the presence OF
an English officer, consisting Of ter
pounds Of beef. ten pounds of bread
and butter. and bundle OF tallov
candles as dessert,
A young Russian soldier, II year.
Of age. named Tarane. ate twenty
four pounds Of beef in twenty-foui
hours. and on another occasion dis
posed OF a repast prepared for Il
people.
A certain Mr.. Jerry Exc, OF Nor
folk. on one festive occasion, hau
small calf prepared and cooked To-
his special delectation; he deliberatel,
consumed IL. all but the bones. dur
. ing the space OF seven hours. So httl
did this interfere with his escellen
digestive powers that he Joined hi
boon companions In hearty repas
the same night. and appeared TO b
none the worse for IL.
In the Bodleian Library at Oxfor'
may DE seen abillof fare which give
a very good idea OF the enormous ap
petitos possessed by Peter the Grea
and his suite. IL refers 10 a visit PAL
Try that monarch TO Godalming. Il
Surrey.
At breakfast, Peter and his doze
courticry made short work OF half
sheep. "a quarter OF lamb. fifteen chick
ems and ducks. and four dozen egg:
For dinner the same day they ate
sheep. i've ribsof beef, three-quarter
OF lamb, fourteen pullets. and as man
rabbits. and a good supply OF brand
and wine