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Show gues the epicure, why their knowledge and choiee of foods should not be well worth investigating. The other countries coun-tries have their special delicacies which, if they are sought out, appeal to the universal taste and form an agreeable and inexpensive addition to the daily menu of the average mortal who rouse eat. Bear steak, from the West, kangaroo kanga-roo tails pickled, which come from Australia, Aus-tralia, preserved goldfish from the Nile, canned abalone from California, and dried goose from Sweden are only a few of the queer foods kept for sale in the New York markets and sold in quantities. quanti-ties. Until recently people who relished snails were- regarde'd vith sentiments i which savored of disgust, but that no- ; tion has changed, and at the present time that delicacy can be procured in almost . any of the first-class hotels and cafes in New York.. In order to meet the growing demanA oue of the largest caterers in the cityTnports 23.000 snails every week from" Brittany, where the best snails are grown. Harriet (juiruby in Lesliejs Weeklv. I i |