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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I, toot IHE HUMAN GLUTTON Ml IS THl GREEDIEST OF All ANI MAL GORMANDIZERS. la Ability tm Oilnl Aartalae BlM fat 0atl. tlae a4 Opperlaaltlee CiHMtni Aatla ( Blnla, ; Maa. 8k commonly are persona of large ap petite npbraldrd as hops, glutton or toraoranta that the Question sugKwts Itself. Are thee illustrations accurate or must tney be accepted by ustural UtM with toe mum unalldcation that be taajk te such comparisoua "silly as a fww,M -bllud a a bat," "timid as a hare" aud utauy others equally popular la ewy day talk? Those who have studied such creature know that wes often display undeniable runutug; that bats, though endowed witu sense 01 which we nave uo equivalent, are not btlud and that harea can at timet be Mat pugnacious. From the jeueral contemplation of whether three and other animals so de scribed are reedy out of the eotamon ran, it la but a step to the problem whether any Uvluf beast or bird, rep tile, Bxh or Insert la actually greedier thai the greediest auau. writes T. G. Aflato to the Pall liaB Mafaalne, Obrtooely. It Is fair la sooh a com parison to tike the case of the wan who can and does eat more than his . fellows, bevause such a man, disagree able though he may be from one stand point, la undeniably more natural than there who, bowing to the verdict of the edlcal attendant or restrained by con sideratkms of polite behavior, habitual ly eat lees than they could If they were to continue eating until unable to ssral kw more. . . The whole system of feeding In our artificial lives is quite distinct from that adopted In the rJt of the animal world and doubt leas also from that which was In vogue with the cave men. Able by various devices to procure our food as required, we have appointed certain feeding tiniest and at these we rigidly take our meals breakfast, ' luncheon and dinner. The wild creatures of nature know bo such restraint. The birds In our garden are always pevkiug at the lawn for worms or at the bough for berries. The lethargic cattle In the meads when not actually grating are ruminating, which is grasiug over again. The cat erpillars on our roue trees, the auts lu our storeroom, are always at tuble. Only clrlllaed man aud bis domestic animals know the formality of meal times. And so it is throughout nature with aU the four footed and winged creatures. In considering the appetites aud tastes of man and the lower aulmal it la of Importance to distinguish in ev ery class between the gluttons (the word is used conventionally and with out prejudice) and the epicures, more happily differentiated by the French as gonnands and gourmets, the former af which prefer quantity, while the lat ter are all for the quality of their food. The human race furnishes innumer able examples of both. Haydn, the composer, would sometimes order sis covers for dinner and dine alone. One king of England died after a surfeit of lampreys; the undoing of another was aa excessive meal of peaches and Hew ale. I vTtth these may be raflked Sporeo gambi, a human bog, who ate 2.0U) yards of macaroni at a sitting, and Douiery, the role, who lu the pres ence of witnesses devoured In one morning fourteen pounds of raw beef and almost the same weight of tallow candles, These are (be gluttons, and if we compare Domery's feat with the daily meal of a full grown worklug elephant weighing Ave or six tons namely. 130 aounds of vegetable food we find the man the greedier of the two. The epicures are less rcpulMve. A former Imke of Portland, who paid high prices fr red mullet and ate only the livers, was a benefartor of trade, and die famous Comte do Brouswlu. who dexplfed muhrooms unless their flavor had been brought out by Ids mnle treading on them, llktwlse en tertained In prim-ely style and made an art of eating. Every rlnss of animals has Its ex amples of these two categories. With the epicures we may claos the giraffe; witi the gormandizers the vulture. The following selection will approxi mately Mrve to Illustrate by more or less familiar animal types the two classes: Gluttons. Mole, t Boar. IV-ar. Hyena Killer whals. t Hornbllla. f Vulture. Cormorant. t a sua Pythons. Epicures, t Giraffe, t Aaril wolf. Ant eater. Hv'rm whale, t Manatw. fpry. f Humming birds. f Gray miilt t Bs and wa.pa. Band hopper. t Burying beetle. ' J Sharks. Living food, f Carrion. Vegetarian. It must also be remembered that the man who eats Immense meals licks the excuse of these heavier feeders In the wild llf. The mole, the vulture, the python and the shark have excel but reason for eating all they can when a rare chance offers. They may have gone long without a meal, and there is no Instinct to tell them when they will get another, whereas a man knows quite well at luncheon that within six or seven hours he will be lining. The mole, like the little shield tailed snakes of Ceylon, which hunt the same food, has to work like a slsve. digging and tunneling and undermining acres f surface soli in Its pursuit of the worms, and all this labor must breed a hearty, appetite. ThT vulture and the python art alugftsh m their movement that me tatter more particularly, lacking th Bird's tate for carrion, must often U wiilKd to go hungry for weeks to arlher. Again, while greediness is a term of reproach aunmg ourselves. It is Impo sible to glsnce down the preceding ta ble with the same feeling of distaste, for we know that some of the greedl et among these are nature's appoiut ed agents for the resolution of matter. which otherwise would talut the at luoih're aud poison mankind, Into Its harmless elemeuta. There are other considerations which distinguish the treed of the lower an imals from the greed of man. In the case of the great python, for Instance, and. lu fact, of all serpeuta, more or less the teeth are so stunted lu the Jaw that the reptile Is bound to eat all there Is and is debarred rroui leaving Off when its victim is only half de- toured. Some years ago one of the largest aerpeuts in the soological gardens ate another, almost as large, which had previously shared Its compartment. Much waa said and written at the time of the offensive "grecdlnesa" of the creature, but In nvlnt of fact Ita Incli nation had less to say to the result than Ha auatotuy. If, for Instance, the two started ou the same rabbit, one selling the head, the other the stern, the larger would have no choice wbeu they met halfway across but to swsl low ita smaller fellow. 80 specialised are some animals In their food that even the two sexes have different views ou the subject of what to have for dinner. As a curious con trsst to the collaboration of the male and female huia may be cited that of the male mosquito, which sucks only the Juices of plants while the female must feed on the blood of animals. The nursery rhyme touching the dl vergent appetites of Jack Sprat and bis wife Is totally eclipsed by such dis agreement. MEDICAL SCIENCE. The Flaht II Mad Par Bleealaa aa Aaalaal Ualaiae. An Important epoch lu the career of Dr. Maillot, a distinguished mucn nhrslclan who died iu Paris several years ago at the age of ninety-nine years. Illustrates the great timidity of medical ecieucc in tagiug up a new method of treatment or altaudohlng an old oue. Dr. Maillot Is known to the medical world as the practical Intro ducer Into French practice of the use of quinine In the treatment of malarial and other fevers. Tn 1trr? when the French were con ducting a campaign of conquest In Al geria, the mortality among the troops and colonists mere wss mgutruL Prance waa twine- continually called upon for fresh levies of men ami youths to supply this terrible loss, chiefly through fever Incidental to the climate and the life the French In Algeria were leading. At that time the practice of bleeding still prevailed. "Bleed tbeui until they are w hite," was the Injunc tion a hi. RrousMiis. the medical mas ter of the French, gave to bis followers when the condition of the soldiers was reported to blm. At Bone. In one year. out of au effective force of 5,500 men, 1,100 died of illness in the hospital. At this time the effects of sulphate of qululne were known, but few phy sicians ventured to employ It. Mslllot had Interested himself lu the new rem edy, and splng lo Bone In the medical service of the government be resolved to see If It would not reduce the fright ful mortality, which was one to every three snd oue-half men who entered the hospital. At first he employed the quinine merely as su adjunct to tne bleeding. He soou found tli bleeding was killing the meu aud that quinine wus saving them. Mttle by little he left off bleeding, to the great scandal of the medical profession. Kxuctly In pro portion as the bleeding censed the deaths In the hospital decreased. In two years the deaths fell off from one In three and one half nf all who entered the hospital to one In twenty-six, and dually to one lu forty-six. Maillot, quite naturally enough, grew to lie the earnist opponent of bleeding, but he was so ceaselessly vilified by members of the medical profession that he became lliibittered toward his colleagues. Nearly thirty years passed before Maillot saw the complete tri umph of his Ideas. Iws tors continued to bleed their patients heartily for all manner of Ills. Rut lu lsst Maillot was made coinnisindcr of the l-cglon of Honor und chief of the medical staff of the Fremh army, nml his Influence, with others, lu bringing about s vir tual revolution In the practice of medi cine was full recognized.- Pearson's Weekly. A Chinaman's Bath. Speaking of cleanliness In China Itev. B. J. Hardy says In his "John China mnn at Home:" "Before the Chinese were prohibited from emigrating to the Philippine Islands the fare from Amoy to ltanila was for them $75 first rlsss, $15 second. Those In the latter class bad to take a bath before landing, so In order to escspe this terror msny used to trsvel first class who would otherwise have gone second. A whole family of Chinese will make their ab lutions one after another In about a pint of unchanged water In the same basin." 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