Show ho g brot A man with one of the knost propensities lives in shelton conn ha has acquired an appetite for live bull frogs and swallows them with the bame ease he would swallow the most dainty morsel that ever was cooked the mans name is john stowe and he is employed by austin harris stowe has been a resident of shelton only a few years but it was not antil rr itly that his appetite for bullfrogs bull frogs 0 ime known one day within a week he laid a wager that he coald swallow a frog alive and was at once taken kp wednesday thu test was made on a bet of one dollar five parties being present the first one that was brought to him was too large to work down his throat and he selected one from a creek on the harris farm small enough to go down he placed the frog head in his month shoved the remainder in with his fingers and in an instant the amphibious animal was out of sight and probably jumping around his stomach the story of the feat nt once spread and within a few days there were a number of doubting who notwithstanding the undoubted integrity of the many witnesses did not believe that stowe could swallow a live fros of their selection stobo was willing to try the thing again and so to rp ealr to his friend took another bet and appointed tho day on monday the second frog was swallowed and the witnesses present were again astounded stowe is ready at any time to swallow a frog on a het and as frogs at present he in lots of dollars from workmen with whom he comes in contact he says he does not feel any bad as they are dead shortly after landing in the stomach the food he says is excellent and people eat much worse things every day they are just as good as live or live clams or even live scallops baltimore sun |