Show A Very Old Dinner l' l An antiquary in the city of Br Brussels Brussels Brus Brus- s- s sels named Goebel gave perhaps the oldest dinner which has ever been eaten A description was given by byone one one ne of the guests Mr Amaziah Dukes He says At the dinner I ate apples that ripened more than eighteen hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred years ago br bread ad made from wheat grown grow before the children of Israel passed through the Red sea sea spread with butter which was ma made macie when Elizabeth was Queen of En England England Eng Eng- land Jand and I washed down the repast with wine which was old when Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus was playing barefoot with the boys In Genoa The apples were from an earthen Jar taken from the ruins of Pompeii PompeU The wheat was taken from a chamber In one of the Pyramids the butter from a stone shelf in an old well In Scotland where for forI several centuries It had lain in an earthen crock In icy water and the wine was recovered from an old vault In the cIty of ot Corinth There were six guests at tl the e table and each had a mouthful of bread and a teaspoonful of wine but was permitted to l help ep himself bountifully fully to the butter t there ere being several pounds of It The apple jar held about two-thirds two of ot a gallon The fruit was I sweet and as finely flavored as if It had been picked but yesterday r i i if f i r 1 |