The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-11-05
ALL ABOUT A SANDWICH.

The time for getting to the Michigan Cen
tral depot at Chicago was 50 limited that no
regularly prepared supper could be secured,
and so it was necessary to take a sandwich
at the Central depot. There has been great
Improvements made in tine sandwiches fur
nished in Chicago in the last ten years. in
1870 it was customary to encase the sand
witches in pressed sole leather. The leather
was prepared by process only known to
Prussian, and the bread and ham were put
in by hydraulic pressure aud the hole solder
ed up. About four years ago the PIussian
who had the secret, said something unkind
to pitcher of baseball club, and the pitch
er took up one of the sandwiches and pitched
it curved at the Prussian's eye. His funeral
was quite largely attended, considering that
he was man who was retiring, and who
made few acquaintances. But the secret of
making the soles and uppers of railroad sand
witches died with him. 1t was about this
time that corrugated iron shutters were in
vented. and that material was at once utilized
to make lids of sandwiches while the under
jaw of the appetite destroying substance was
made of common building paper, the whole
vanished with meats foot oil, and kiln dried
in lime kiln. Our object in eating one of
the sandwiches was to transfer, if possible,
the headache to the stomach, on :he princi-
pie that the quack doctor cured patient of
paralysis by throwing him into a fit, claiming
that he was not much on paralysis, but he
was awful on fits. The entrance of the pieces
of sandwich into the stomach-that is, the
small pieces that we were able to blast off
with the imperfect appliances at hand in the
tool box of a wrecking car-was signalled by
the worst upheaving that has been witnessed
in this country since 1860. The stomach,
liver, lungs, spleen and other insides got up
an Indignation meeting, with the stomach in
the chair.
In calling the meeting to order the stomach
said unaccustomed as il was to public speak
ing, it felt as though the occasion demanded
a protest, and that in no uncertain tone,
against the habit the boss had of singing
anything into his stomach that came in his
way, without stopping to consider the effect
on the Intervals. The chair remarked that
it had heretofore had a good many pretty
hard doses to take, notably, army bacon, and
later some black bread that the boss had
showed in while hunting out in Minnesota, in
1867, and again last year when pan full of
beans from Bill Wad's Wolf river boom board
ing house was sent down without any intro
ductiOn, the stomach said it had felt like
throwing up the "sponge," and drawing out
of the game, but it had thought better Of il,
and had gone on trying to digest things till
now. But this last outrage, this Chicago
sandwich, was too much. ''See here" says
the stomach, holding UP piece Of the iron
lid Of the sandwich, so the liver could see it.
I ''what kind of a junk shop does he take this
place for?' The liver got the floor ard sug
gested that the stomach was making a terri
ble fuss about little thing, and told tho
stomach it had evidently forgotten the good
things that had been sent down from above
in times gone 10y. ''YOu seem TO forget, "
says the liver, becoming warmed up, ''the
banquets the boss never fails to attend, the
nice Ginners he sometimes gets at home, and
the wild canvas back duck he sends down
when lie goes to Lake kOshkOnOng, as wei
as the Lake House dinners that occasionally
surprise us. l move that the stomach bt
reprmanded for kicking and trying to get VI
a muss, and that this meeting adjourn anI
we all go about our business" The stomach
tried to get in a word cdgewise, but it was ID
use, and the thing was about to break up il
a row, when we went to sleep.