The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1867-11-22
From the New York Evening Post.
Cheap John"

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Among The evening sights and soun Dc Of
the swarming Bowery not the least notice
able. are the "Cheap John" establishments,
st its junction with Chatham street.
In nose the "Cheap John 10 Of the time
honored Hebrew race. Having no license
as an auctIoneer, he does not profess TO
sell by auction. but mounts a platform and
disposes Of goods by an original eloquence
we'll suited 10 the locality anc his hearers.
fle sells Yankee notions and mems ready
made clothing, but no eatables or dry goods.
Articles Of apparel at his door are embls-
zoned with the recommendations "Neat, .
"Imposing." Cheapest Store In New York.
Gall at the Half Price Store Judge
for yourselves Save Hall your money."
$40 600 worth OF goods" A dapper little
Office coat Is labelled Bullyv In Difference
TO the great sensation Of the moment, q
pair Of ten cent worsled socks are cogno.
mened "BIack Crook and as Q clinching
indursement. square old wooden shirt IL
headed "Oar Make"
The several doors Of the entrance being
thrown open, the street air 10 vocal with
Cheap Johns notes, and the crowd stray in
% hesr him. His impovershing talent is
great, though his grammar and versifcaton
would not bear remark. He says anything
,ha. arises 10 bis mind. somewhat 10 this
effect:
American fellow citizens: Unsccustomed
ss ! am % public speaking. tell you what
il 10. This il a free country; but you can't
do ~hst you like; your whisky's stopped OF
Sunday
This serves 10 initiate an illustrative
snatch Of melody:
Happy land. happy land.
"Bresking stones and selling sand"
"GsnIlemen. will now offer you feath-
er-edged. silyer-steeled rszor. I.gunrs sn,ee
ths, il you take u home and put Il under
your pillow, you will find yourself ready
shaved in the morning. There-a whole
shop -soop, strop, rozor and brush for fifty
cents. Sold-you tsks one, cir, sold-sold
anolher-sny more geniiemen!" The ready
shaved in the morning" is given with wink
BY Cheap John. /, 10 intended in q meta.
phorical sense.
After selling quantity he proceeds:--
l"Nex, article have 70 sell you is some
splendid tobacco, only twenty five cents q
plug. First you can chew IL, then you
dry Il, then you chew il again, after that,
dry il aud smoke IL; then take the ashes and
snuif i. and BY that time you get your
money's worth"
Tobacco is an obnoxious weed,
|, does n his world strange wonders breed ;
The head i; sseIls. the skin il dries,
Il mskesu chimney Of The nose and eyes;
I, numbs body from head 10 toes.
That's al, l suppose. knows knows.
"Gcn,emen here are sock. with double
heel and toes, spring tops. and wide. clipper
built aud copper fastened. very strong and
never wear cut; wear 'em three weeks. dry
'em ID the sun. and make codfish balls out
of 'em.
"We're alI J ohning, Cheap John John
ming.
We're al Johnning on the way through the
world
Dame Nature Johned out man.
For 10 John his wsy through life,
so being termed Cheap John,
We will John (oin) him with his wife.
"Thcrc's a man up the street, who would
be = cheap John;
lie would II he could.
But Le speaks so much Dutch he can't
be Understood;
50 we're OH johnning, John, John,
Johnning.
"Now, gentlemen, the next article offer
10 you Is some beautiful cologne. A beau
iiful article for shampconin' the head,
openin' the pores Of the skin, and alowin'
the sweat 70 evaporate through The human
irame. As an elabora,or and purifier 10 the
beautiful form OF female Iovliness Il can not
be excelled. Iwill give 'em for one dollar
Fseven,y.fve; will you take 'em for one City
Take 'em ior one twenty-five, and there they
90 Tor dollar. Nobody wants 'em hey?-
We'll, you're q scurvy lot. Smell worse
lshnn cologne. You're Baxter avenue genls.