Show HAS CLAIM TO story of the man aho vho discovered the first beefsteak like most other good things was discovered entirely by accident says a writer in the chicago tribune it appears that luclus pla cus a roman ot rank was ordered by the emperor trajan for some offense to act as one of the menial to jupiter i he resisted but was at length dragged to the altar there the fragments of the victim were laid upon he fire and the unfortunate sen ator TV as forcibly compelled to turn them in the process of roasting one ot the slices fell oft the coals and was caught by in its fall it burned his fingers and he instinctively thrust them into his mouth in that moment he had made the grand dis covery that the taste of a slice thus carbonado ed was infinitely beyond all the sodden cookery of rome A new expedient to save his dignity suggested at the same time and he at once evinced his obedience to the emperor by seeming to go through the sacrifices with due regularity and his scorn of the employment by turn ing the whole ceremony into a matter of appetite he swallowed every slice deluded trajan defrauded jupiter and invented the beefsteak A discovery of this magnitude could not long be concealed the sacrifice began to dis appear with a rapidity and alon to the parties too extraordinary to be noticed the priests of jupiter adopted the practice with delight and the king of olympus must have been soon starved it he depended on any share of the good things of rome |