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Show ROQUEFORT CHEESE Roquefort cheese is made in France from thy milk of a certain breed of sheep, which are fed on wild thyme and the cheese has a wild time trying to keep from stinking itself to death in its intancy. The wild thyme grows on the banks of the Lot, Tarn and other rivers in the depart- ment of Aveyron In France, and after it has first been besheeped and then becheesed it generates ft a lot of the darndest smells that ever perambu- lated down the pike. Thyme is a kind of an aromatic plant with a pungent odor and after It is converted Into Roquefort Roque-fort cheese it Is the pungentest thing known to man. After this cheese is made it is put ii solitary coniinement until its whiskers begin to turn gray and gangrene sets in, when it is taken out and chained to a post. Before it is served it is chloroformed or knocked in the head with an axe. It is then brought to the table in little square sections about the size of a domino. It is served at the close of meals together with black coffee. It usually has a running mate in the shape of a round cracker that has to bo broken with a maul. Roquefort cheese is of a dull white color, except ex-cept in spots where mortification has set in. Some claim It to be inhabltated, but this is not true. Even the Intrepid and mophltlc microbe flees from it as we flee from a pestilence. We have seen Llmburger cheese strong enough to shoulder a two-bushel sack of wheat, but a piece of Roquefort the size of a dice Can carry an election. elec-tion. Limburger is a rose geranium when compared com-pared with Itoquefort. There is as much difference differ-ence between them as there is between the purr of a kitten and the roar of a lion. Some people who claim to be civilized say they like Itoque- NONETTE, AT THE ORPHEUM NEXT WEEK. fort cheese, but they only eat it because it iB imported and expensivo. A man who will eat it is an open sepulchre and should bo quarantined or driven into the wilderness and never allowed to look into the face of a human being. American Ameri-can Practloner. |