Judge — December 10, 1881 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CO,, Nos. 13 & 15 PARK ROW, N. Y. | WEEK. | PUBLISHED TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. ONCE A Gone Copy rabers $00 Gone Copy, for 13 weeks Aitress Tue Jepae Pretisiise 60, 13.415 Park ttow, N. ¥ Peril of the Press. Moxorony is fast becoming the octopus of Ame 1: dupe scents | danger in a network of wires that can made to obey the mandates of a single owner, Intelligence can be garbled, delayed, and re- fused for the benetit of one man’s pocket. | Yet, toalay, the press of this country is abso- lutely powerless to check that man's will. | raph should be part and parcel of | the mail system, and both be under control of | ‘The people demand the | J should command the means of its transi We should have implicit conti- dence in the daily quotations of domestii We want to know tl rywhere a un newspapers, the Government. news, jon. and thon. . are mit no juggling with the We must fecl | ssured that all is not Gould that His Honor is no speaxs bluntly to plain men ing grotesque in the situation, a ribald « foreign ma an pe ule of commerce. tens in is rinist, but he There is noth- Will there be | ‘ho to the warnin; Grape Culture. Every farmer who loves his country should raise grapes—if he c: n be planted almost anywhere—in rocks, in the water, in cement, or even in a pine plank; but if the object is to have them grow and bear fruit, it will be better to plant them in the ground, In planting the grape be care- | ful to set it top side up. If yon reverse it | the vine is apt to grow down towards the center of the earth, which makes it extremely difficult to collect the fruit. Some people | think that a dead cat should be buried at the root of every vine, Certainly it is a good thing—for the cat—but whether it really benefits the vine we are not so sure. The late Mr. T. Hood, an English farmer, tried this experiment, and says his grapes were ed over with fur, We can the more readily credit elves have a vine with a cat—a Thomas—for a foundation, amd we have frequently noticed that people are | very fond of standing under it to muse, and always between each bunch of grapes there are very large paws (es). Many grape cultivators use soap suds on | vines. If the object is simply to clean them it pe-vines co" | with horror that the lives of their | over their precious heads. | the inquests when the bodies of these festive THE JUDGE. would perhaps be as well tosend them toa laun- | dry, Our opimon is that the better way will be | found to be to simply place a bar of soap at the root, and depend on Nature to furnish the to make the suds, about all soap is good for anyhow, Almost anything is good enough to train vine on, excepting ane fence—especially if that neighbor has chil- dren, Wooden arbors, ornamented with secret spring-guns carefully loaded, are the best for vines to run on, the guns having a tendency to drop the neighbors off faster than the grapes. Young vines water Besides, this is always ¢ nerally bear very little frui though we have seen vines cight or even ten rs old as bare Worms can do a great deal grape crop, but boys from about teen can give the worm: them bad. grapes than any other insets going. The a mess of grapes | is to take a basket and a dollar an to the market and buy them, ‘The difficulty | generally is to $ your hand. Jamage to a ne to fit points and beat | Boys are more discouraging to easiest way to rais | go down ise the doll Philadelphia Imitating New York. first-class city should be without a cor pt showing up in its government, and we ob- | serve that good, old Philadelphia, the home of | that immaculate statesman, the Hon, William | MeMullin, late day imitating New York. Be Willian Penn, rattle in your grave! Well may the ghost of Tweed, ing into the Philadelphia tax- Controller Pat say of rson, and Tax- they going todo | What ean they do about it? i question that may well puzzle those most won- | derful of all men, the law: sof the City of Brotherly Love. Tue: | JupGE contemplates with sadness the spectacle presented to the world by King, Hunte Patte in un the Taxoflice of that hitherto hilarious place, Mourning as Tie JvpGE does over the shock- ing dise he can simply brothers on th h of Pennaylvanis th sof the ite, guilty man escape! about it?” graduated from son frauds in the psures, say to his and to “Let no lu prosecutin A Matter of Interest to Coroners. CoRONERS throughout the country will 1 brethren are in p ‘The Coroner's in this ¢ building, plastered and press a stranger with the belief that it was recently erected, and is close to the > York approach to the bridge in course of ere: | tion over the East River, A few days ago, while the coroners were investigating the fall- ing of a building where nine lives were lost, they were startled by the information that their own building is liable to rattle down Who shall hold Metropolitan coroners shall be recovered from the prospective wreck is a matter that must | interest every coroner in the land. A Paradox. ‘Tuene is a positive danger in being honest days. Inde encral thing, the rogue has the best of it in the battle between Right and Wrong, and the philosopher ean scarcely wonder that society is no better than it is. For instance, an honest householder ht a burglar in his house the other night, and naturally enough attempted to argue the question thus suddenly brought up between them with a revolver. The thief manifested a disposition to dodge the question and the bullet by jumping out of a window. On ac- count of stopping too abruptly he broke his leg, and bellowed for help. Thinking he had him sure, the honest householder went for the and the raseal was taken to the , where he received the best ¢ is was all right and humane enough how was it with the honest householder? was locked up in the House of Detention « t fellow will have to remain a prisoner for months, aring far worse in every respect than the burglar all bi 1 to be an honest man, and naturally objected to id. Now, lesson to be got out of this without resorting rkscrew, Ifthe honest householder had, on discovering the invader, treated him po- litely: asked him to sit down and have a bot- tle of wine and a cigar with him; talked pl antly on the topies of the day, and on parting with him, invited him to call again, there would have been no trouble, The burglar would not have broken his leg and the honest man would not be languishing in prison while his family 1a Tue dene as favorin, now polic ment. but He where he and ‘cause he chance having his house pillag there is a toac uish in his absence. would not like to be unde: dishonesty, but under the in the face of the dangers ting the honest man, perhaps it would be bet- ter judgment on the part of the afore est man to “deal gently with the er ireum- stances, a ALLIGATORS, says the “Fat Contributor,” re found in the rivers of Florida, We never found any there, because we are a poor hand at finding things, particularly alligators, We would rather pay an alligator bigger wage: and let him find himself; and if he ever does find himself—in our company, we hope he will walk off imme There ing deceitful about an alligator, as b countenance — show The a or's is very tough; so are the places where alli gators hid Boots are made of the hide, which makes us think of a little story: A dar key who had nothing for his feet but an old pair of gaiters, went to hunt an alligator one day, so as to get his hide for a new pair, but the alligator swallowed him, gaiters and all, which was alligator he wanted, iately. is noth open i hi Tue other night burglars laboriously drilled seven holes ina safe at Madison, Wis discovered cleven cents—and also that the safe had been left unlocked. But they had the satisfaction of knowing that they had spoiled the safe.— Boston Post. “Patience is the key of Joy.” comicbooks.com