The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-12-03
ECCENTRIC1TY IN LUNCH.

Over at Kasota Junction. the other
day, found living curiosity. He
was a man of about medium height,
perhaps As years of age, of a quiet dis
position, and not noticeable or peculiar
in his general manner. He runs the
railroad eating-house at that point. and |
the one odd Characteristic which he |
has makes him we'll known all through /,
three or four states, / could not illus |
trate his eccentricity any better than |
by relating circumstance that occur
red to me at the junction last week.
| had Just eaten breakfast there and
paid for it 1 stepped up TO the cigar
case and asked this man if he had "a
rattling good cigar"
Without knowing it, had struck the
point upon which this man seems to be
a crank, if you will allow me that ex-
preston, though it doesn't fit very
we'll in this place. He looked at me
in sad and subdued manner, and said:
s.No, sir, haven't rattling good ci-
gar in the house. / have some cigars
there that bought for Havana filters.
but they are mostly filled with pieces
of Colorado maduro overalls. There's
q box over yonder that I bought for
good, straight 10-cent cigars. but they
are only q chaos of hay and Flora, Fino
and damfiuo, all socked into Wisesn-
sin wrapper. Over in the other end OF
the case is a brand Of cigars that were
to knock the tar out of all other kinds
of weeds, according to the urbane rus
tier that sold them to mo and then
drew on me before I could light one
of them. Well, instead of being fine
Colorado Claro with q high-priocd
wrapper, they are common Mexicano
stinkaros in Mother Hubbard wrap
per. Tho commercial tourist who sold
me those cigars and then drew on me
at sight was a good deal better on the
draw than his cigars are. If You will
notice, you will see that each cigar has
q spinal column to it, and this outer
debris is wrapped around it. One man
bought a cigar out of that box last
week. told him. though, just l am
telling you, that they were no good,
and if he bought one no would regret
it. But he took one and went out on
the veranda to smoke it, Then he
stepped on a melon rind and fell with
great force on his side. When we
picked him up, he gasped once or twice
and expired. We opened his vest hur-
riedly, and found that in falling this
bouquet dc Gluefactoro cigar, with the
spinal column, had been driven through
his breast-bone and had penetrated his
heart The wrapper of the cigar WASH
so much as cracked"
.But doesn't it impair your trade to
run on in this wild, reckless way about
your cigarsP"
1T may at first, but not after q
while. always tell people what my
cigars are made of, and then they cant
Blame me; SO, after while, they get
TO believe what l say about them.
often wonder that no cigar maa ever
tried this way before do just the
same way about my lunch counter.
man steps up and wants . fresh ham
sandwich, give it to him II I've got Ii,
and if haven't Il ! tell him SO. II you
turn my sandwiches over you will find
the date of its publication on every
one. If they are not fresh, and have
Eo fresh ones, tell the customer thai
they are not SO blamed fresh IS the
Young man with the gauze mustache
but that can remember very well
when they were fresh, and ii his artiti.
cial teeth fit him pretty well he can try
one.
"It's lust the same with boiled eggs
have a rubber dating-stamp, and ai
soon AS the eggs are turned over to m'
by the hen for inspection l date them
Then they are boiled and another dat
in red is stamped on them. 1t one o
nv clerks should date an egg ahead,
would fire him too quick.
"On this account people who know
me will skip meal at Missouri juno
tion in order TO come here and ca
things that are not clouded in mystery
do not keep any poor stuH when
can help il. but if do l don't concea
the horrible fact
'.Of coursc, new cook will some
times smuggle late date on to a me-
= di@val egg and sell it, but he has t
change his name and flee.
Il suppose that if every eating-house
should date everything and be square
with the public it would be an ole
story and wouldn't pay, but as it is, nc
one trying to compete with me, / dc
we'll out of it, and people come here
out of curiosity good deal.
1.-The reason try to do right ant
win the public esteem is that the gen
eral public never did me any harm, ant
the majority of people who travel are
kind may meet in future state.
should hate to have thousand travel
ing men holding nuggets of ranci,
ham sandwich under my nose through
all eternity and know that l had lieC
about it. It's an honest fact If
knew I'd got to stand up and apologize,
for my handmade, all-round, seamless
pies and guaranteed cigars, heave,
would be no object. "-BtU Nye in Chi