Show An Eminent divine divino at auction A fow days since when the sun was beaming t forth iu in all its radiant brightness the good and loyal major majon M bor don general john P newman spiritual adviser of him who taught dave how to pace and harlan to td pra pray yand and grand whipper in of recalcitrant senators was knocked down or rather exposed for sale and knocked down to the highest bidder now we dont mean to say that the veritable pei pel hot was made a second edition of the greek slave but rather to painfully record the tile fact that the substance of his shadow was going a and going a and finally went for a song bong imbued do doubt with the good teachings from the metropolitan 31 E church pillory a young scion of the mills family with no malice aforethought afore thought conceived the happy idea of doing up his beloved pastor in plaster had not deacon newman kewman molded his soul with unction and anc inspired him to the exhilarating fancy that lie he was wag on the caves of 0 the heavenly temple should he not in turn mold his portly body as penance for the prayerful solicitude with which his change of heart was nursed and watched of course he should and more lie he did his labor of love developed dos dov eloped itself in a fully terra term couta cotta statue of the bt rt maj gen john P newman kewman it was supposed to represent him with supplicating voice and outstretched hand inviting sinners to come up and repent deacon pratt of catanch bridle fame when he saw it was exultant in its praise and even old eya said mid as pm im a judge it is natural to life and verily truth is stranger than fiction when john P with his numerous et avs alls was anointed with per annum in gold and commanded by our itinerant president to go forth and inspect the foreign consuls he urged with tears that with filthy lucre he be allowed to purchase the miniature of himself mills was flattered with the idea that it was a masterpiece and although tried to soften his obdurate heart with shoofly shoo 0 fly fl and other re religious 11 luious i melodies he c sternly refused to part with his statuette and newman crossed the briny deep without it time works chan chanes changes eg by some means the youthful x artist although fully experiencing a change of heart ran short of change like most y young oung men in a similar condition he be ran in debt the day of reckoning came not the final reckoning for lor his change of heart will pass at t par there but an invitation to pony up mills pony up he offered any amount of his fathers well grown ponies in in bronze but to use a vulgar parlance his creditors have it it took only a small dose of law to obtain a scire cacias facias and then soon after the strong arm of that article supposed to pervade the heads of olin and clasped to its embrace the tho image of the departed saint the debt must be satisfied and what did the hardened constable care who was sold so long as it tended in a measure to appease the wrath of a 90 creditor he care and in this wise was the sale consummated any one pass passing ilig 1119 seventh street and pennsylvania days since might have been startled by the antics of a bowlegged bow legged boy wrestling with a bell let us take in the situation at a glance fon for it looked like the game we used to play called bull in the ring with newman trying to break out arranged in a circle might have been nay were five or six curious spec gators inthe in the tho center stood a constable by his side with a barrel for a pedestal stood newman or at least a counterfeit for him the bell ceased and the auctioneer or the constable acting in the duplex capacity announced something after this manner his agreeable duty gentlemen A bad bootblack shine sem lem em up oh golla bill heres old grants parson up a spout his freckled companion jerusalem 1 I say lets jets ask old brown to buy it for the tiie newsboys home what ahat a fine shot we could have at him with blow pipes and spitballs spit balls the auctioneer reburn resuming ing gentlemen I 1 have in my possession a model of departed greatness one who is a regular pentecost modern savior one who prays long and fervent how much have I 1 bid for him the bootblack ill gin a circus ticket A bystander old freddy coombs has gone to get a warrant against you for interfering with his matrimonial stand the auctioneer ID n freddy coombs chos going to take this parson off my hands hander 11 A colored youth Is s he sound aint ho he cracked the auctioneer sound as a bell who wants him im waxing warm in this business 11 general carrington with a chuckie chuckle in his eye five dollars just the sound of the batters lat voice had died away smith the only christian pawn keeper in the district put in an appearance appe aranco and with his avidity to smell out 1 a I bargain 1 I go another quarter tile the auctioneer disgusted tam take taw the old follow fallow and smith did take him and the rt rev kev john P newman D D I 1 with his big retinue of titles was lugged off to adorn his big parlors where he is surrounded by oliver cromwell and john joh n milton mllton 1111 ton smith has since ordered a bust of old john watts or old john watts on a bust to make up a happy quartette has heard of the transaction and weeps while chiming well all au get stone blind drunk when johnny comes marching home washington capital |