The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 79, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 18, 1884 Page: 1 of 4

                                
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QUEER APPETITES.
Tbe old saying that what is
one man's moat is another
man's poison is realized in the
opposite tastes of people.
The Englishman will not
oat a squirrel, but will gloat
over a meal of bernacles and
periwinkles, the latter a spe-
cies of sea snail that adheres to
the rocks. The New Hollander
relishes a f ast of decayed
shark, yet looks with horror
on bread and butter. The
Japanese have a horror against
milk and beef, but will enjoy
stewed or roasted rat. The
Turks shadder at the thought
of eating oysters.
The Digger Indians of the
Pacific slope rejoiced in the
great locust swarms of 1875,
as a gracious dispensation of
the Great Spirit, and laid in
a store of dried locust powder
sufficient to last for years.
The French will eat frogs,
snails, and diseased livers of
geese, but will draw the line
at alligators. Buckland de-
clares the taste of boa constric-
tor good, and much like veal.
Sir Robert Sehomberg found
monkey very palatable though
ho says before carving it look-
ed disagreeably like roast
child.
Quaes, the fermented cab-
bage water of the Russians, is
their favorite tipple. Is is
described as resembling a
mixture of*tale fish,and soap-
suds in taste, yot next to beer,
it has more votaries than any
other fermented beverage. A
tallow candle washed down
with qnass. forms a meal that
it WQutd be hard to be tjiank-
ful for.
In Capton and other Chinese
f itfes rat? are at the rate
of $2 a dozen, and the hind-
quarters of dog are hung up
in the butcher shops alongside
of mutton and lamb, but com-
mand a hischer price. The
edible birds'-nosts of the Chi-
nese are worth twice their
weight in silv r, the finest
variety selling for as high as
$30 a pound.
The negroes of the West
Indies eat baked snakes and
palm worms fried in their own
fat, but they, cannot be in
duci?d to eat stewed rabbits.
In Mexico parrots are eaten;
but are rather tough. The
Guachos of the Hand a Orion
tal are in the habit of hunting
skunks for the sake of their
flesh.
In Kaskaskia, a tow a on the
banks of the Mississippi, "mu-
sical Jack." or fried rattle
snake, decapitated and skin-
ned, and showing a meat as
white and firm as a chicken,
is a standard dish.
The octipus, or devil-fish,
when broiled firwt and tli^n
roasted is eaten in Corsica,
and esteemed a great delicary.
Iu the Pacific Islands and
West Indies lizard's eggs are
eaten with great gusto. The
natives of the Antilles eat al-
ligator eggs, and the eggs of
the turtle are popular every-
where, though up to the com-
mencement of the last century
turtle was only eaten by the
poor of Jamaica. Ants are
still eaten by various nations.
In Brazil they are served with j
a resinous sauce, and in Afri
ea they are sweetened with
grease or butter. The East
Indians catch them in pits,
wash them carefully, and eat
them in handfuIs like raisins.
In Siam a curry of ants' nests
is a costly luxury. The Cev-
loncse eat the bees after rob-
bing them of their honey.
Caterpillars and spiders are
dainties to the African bush
man. After they have wound
the silk from the cocoon, the-
Chinese eat the chrysalis of
th'e silkworm. Spiders roasted
are a sorb of desert with New
Caledonians.
The Viennese arc the great
est snaileaters in the world.
The town of Ulm' on the Da*
nube, is the principal place
where snails are fattened for
the market. . Those which are
fattened on strawberries com
inand the highest prices, while
GO,000 pounds are annually
exported from the Isle of
Crete. The great African
snail, thatattainsa length of six
inches,are converted into soup.
Cock's combs are considered a
delicacy in the Paris restau-
rants, while the Englishman
swallows shrimps in their en
tirety.—St. Louis Post-Des-
pit/:!),
ALL SOULS DAY IN THE CITY
OF MEXICO.
The religious ceremonies of
Sunday—All Souls Day—
wore celebrated yesterday.
From an early hour the street
cars leaving to the_ Piedad,
San Fernando, Dolores, Gua-
dalupe, and French cemeteries
were crowded wi h people;
The graves of the children had
been decorated and draped on
Saturday, and yesterday the
same kind offices were render-
ed to the graves of the adults.
Huge candles of wax were
placed at some of the tombs,
and curtains of velvet from
candle to candle. Links of
(lowers made of black satin
ornamented «orne headstones,
and ifi many cases a photo-
graph or painting of the
deceased was suspended. The
poorer people strewed branches
and erected cuttings from
plants to grow afterward as a
memorial of regard. Immense
bouquets of flowers were also
tastily a. ranged over some of
the silent mounds. The ladies
universally were costumed in
b'lac.k, and by thousands
flocked from houses of wealth
and poverty to the dust of
their loved ones. In the
Cemetery of San Fernando
the ceremonies were unusually
solemn The tomb of Benito
Juarez was elegantly draped;
great vases containing the
richest tropical plants were
placed there, and (lowers
buried the figure of Mexico
holding on her knees the dead
patriot. Zaragoza, the hero
of the French intervention,
was remembered, and flowers
and crape were mingled upon
the four reversed cannon that
surrounded his pyre. Some
decorations sent by the
children of Miramon, living
at Miramar Castle, Austria,
were placed over the grave of
this friend of Maximilian,
while but a simple laurel
crown covered the tomb of his
associate Mejia. Dolores
Cemetery was crowded from
early morning, for 05,000
people lie in that silent city,
and scarcely arc without a
friend to place at l<ast a
spring of myrtle-or laurel on
their grave. The road to the
Piedad Cemetery was lined on
both sides with merry venders
of refreshments. Thus sor-
row and joy linked the day.—
Two Republics.
Two Comstock. Uol, men
made a bet on the presiden 
iial eleciion. The winner will
visit any saloon in the city as
often as ho chooses for twenty-
fovr hours after final returns
of the election aro received,
and the loser will accompany
him and pay for all the drinks
oalled for, but must not take
a slip himself, It will be a
tpAsing <lay fbrtbe loser,
NUMBER 70.
A VERY NATURAL INQUIRY
The scene is iu Germany.
A fat gentleman, who had
come out of the b <th, half
opens the door of his dress-
ing-room, and, in a state of
bewilderment, calls out: "Boy
what sort of a place in this?
Some one has stolen my
pants!" "Impossible, sir. Thin
establishment is stnctlv
*
honest. I will go and see,
but there must be some mis-
take." About five minutes
after ward the fat gentleman,
who is still in the primitivo
uniform of the garden of
Paradise, calls tho boy again
in a voice agitated by uneasi
ness. The boy returns and
shouts iu a shrill voice: "Can't
find your pants anywhere, sir.
Are you sure you had nny
when you came in?"
RESOURCES OF THE HRFDGE.
The East River Bridge
managers are .now running thn
electric light system of tho
bridge with their own force,
says the Now York Tribune.
By the terms of the contract
with the United States Elec-
tric Light Company that cor-
poration was to make the
working of the system accep-
table to tho Bridge people and
run it for thirty days thereafter
before the latter should acee pt
and pay for tho plant. This
the United States Company
was only able to do recently.
The lighting force as now or-
ganized consists of Frederick
L. Hurt, superintendent, with
two engineers, four inspectors
two trimmers and one lamp
adjuster. Superintendent Mar-
tin reports that the lights aro
'working beautifully.'
Mr. Martin gives the follow*
ing facts about tho Bridge
traffic. The average receipts
for last week were, $1,046' a
day. During Julv and Au-
• ~ %i
gust they were only about
$1,300. As showing the work
that can be done by the riil-
way, these facts are given: Oil
October 11 /the cars carried
29,11/2 persons, a larger num-
ber than the average. On that
day the largest number that
crossed in any one hour was
from Brooklyn to New York,
between 8 and 9 a. m., when
it reached 3,275. The greatest
number passing from New
York to Brooklyn was between
5 and G p. m , 2,710. On
February 13, the cars carried
from New York to Brooklyn
during one honrG,400 passeng-
ers. The cars do not, as a rule,
carry during the 'rush hours/
all they are capable of taking,
and during no other hours
does tho traifiefuxtho resources
of the road. Tho d lily average
is about 20,000.
Hon. B. B. Keutfrj will ar«
rive home tin* evening over
tho M & M Ull
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