Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — ANTS AS PICKLES. [ARTICLE]

ANTS AS PICKLES.

Big Black Insects Eaten as a Relish by Maine Lumbermen. ■KB ’ ' Pittsburg Dispatch. Should a Maiqe lumberman find a stump or rotton log with thousands of big black ante in it he scoops the toirid insects from their winter domicile anc fills his dinner pail with them. When he gets back to his cabin at night he sets the pail in a cool place until his supper is ready, then brings it forth, anc while helping himself to pork and beans, helps himself also to ants. There is no accounting for tastes, and he esteems a handful of ants a very choice morsel. Ants are eaid by those who have tasted them to have a peculiarly agreeable, strongly acid flavor. The woodsmen, whose food consists largely of salted meat, baked beans and similar hearty victuals, naturally have a craving for something sour. *5. “Ants are the very best of pickles,” said an old “logged,” who confessed to having devoured thousands of them. “They are cleanly insects, and there is no reason why they should not be eaten if one can get over a little sqaeamishnees caused by the thought of taking sack crawling things into bis stomach. There is nothing repulsive about them, and when ainan has once learned to eat the creatures as pickles he prefers them to any other kind.” Sneezed His Shoulder Oat of Joint The Boston Journal reports that Samuel Cummings. ofthatcity, while leaning against a rail in his grain mill,, ’began sneezing, and sneezed so hard that he dislocated his shoulder.” !