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Show Hlppophagy. Hippophagy being In low water In these later days, somebody has set himself to show what an exceedingly , lcspcctable history attaches to tho practice. Among the ancients, especially especial-ly In China, eating horse flesh was general, nnd' It was only killed In Europe Eu-rope by n papal decree of Oregory III, though why horse flesh should hnvp been interdicted does not appear. It was only the famine caused by Napoleon's Na-poleon's Invasion that revived tho practice in Germany, where It has survived ever since. |