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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3308, 21 September 1871, Page 3

A Soldiee Feast Amono the American Indians. — ' For the benefit of the uninitiated, let mo cay that this happy banquet consists of a series of the most frightful meases which ever entered a witch's cauldron. For instance, there will bo a ragout of dog, flavored with mud and soul-leather ; a soup of lizards, pig gristle, and wild onions ; an enormous salmiß of old mule and sunflower leaves. Y°ur host is mosfc generous with his provender. He heaps your plate with the nauseous delicacies until you sit aghaßt. If you cannot eat your portion, you are technically said to be ' killed,' and have to buy somo othor convive to eat it for you wifch a valuable present. One elastic Indian of long practice will sometimes eat two men's portions besides his own, and foel no more inconvenionce from them than an anaconda from a goat au naturel. Moncrcvi6 had once to pay the most valuable horee he had, to gefc his mess eaten by a Sioux brave. Ab these are debts of honor, tbe niosfc capacious glutton goes to a soldier-feast with all the avidity felt by a gray Wall street bull for a corner in Harlem.' — ' Ludlow's Travels.' The " Chicago Journal" eaye, that by the term, ' strong minded woman,' it means, 'One who spoils a very respectable woman in vainly endeavoring to become a very ordinary man.' 'I cay, boy, is there anything to shoot around here ?' inquired a sportsman of a boy he met. 'Well,' replied tho boy, 'nothing just about here, but our schoolmaster is just over the hill there, cutting birch rods— you might walk up and pop him off.' While Raphael was engaged painting his celebrated frescoes he was visited by two cardinals, who began to criticise his work, and found fault without understanding it. ' Iho Apoßtlo Paul has too red a face,' said one. ' fie blushes to ccc into what hands the church has fallen,' was the reply.