Judge, 1882-03-25 · page 4 of 16
Judge — March 25, 1882 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page from *Judge* magazine contains satirical commentary on 1880s American politics and social issues. The main cartoon depicts a crowded scene with figures gathered around what appears to be a narrative or announcement (caption references "An Intense Narration"). The "Few Remarks" section below offers brief satirical jabs at contemporary topics: - **Bimetallism** jokes about currency debate as "junk business" - **Peruvian claimants** references a specific diplomatic dispute - **Horatio Seymour** (likely the 1868 Democratic presidential candidate) is mocked for relying on weak campaign justifications - **Peabody bequest** satirizes bureaucratic confusion over philanthropic funds - **A.C. Swinburne's proposed "nine-book poem"** ridicules artistic excess - Various social commentary on marriage, dinner etiquette, and journalism The satire assumes readers recognize specific political figures and recent events. Without that contemporary context, the references feel obscure to modern audiences.
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So Yn ate iN ieteton epyrroachet thi tillain’s throat and wi s of disappointment—Ha A FEW REMARKS. Bi-Metatism: The old junk busines Siteatios of the Peruvian claimants: Non possun—up a gum-tree. i Ixperintte article weekly. We read in a socicty journal that larly swell dinner is ‘on the tapis. place, truly, to lay any kind of a dinner. particu- Queer Respect everybody's feelings, even your | However much you may t to know her address, never ask her where she “hangs ou! Ose Funk has published a “Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.” For the sake of the “ quotations,” we hope publisher Funk is not related to the old and unreliable Peter. Ir worse comes to the very worst, Mr. John Kelly can put himself up at a hog-guessing mateh, and thereby get at an approximation, at least, of his estimated party value. Cuntovs but true: The best way to give prominence to an objectionable work is to suppress it. jam and bis man Bismarck might make a note of it. Punch has done so already. leader in a religious | AN INTENSE NARRATION. anu, standing on one leg, blew out the canitle, imed—{To WE CONTINCED.) ps they had better try and 3 another bill, enabling a man to live in ye house with his wife's mother, A FALSE, drove an Iilin ones of stealing twent, 3 girl gracious sakes alive! insane.—. change. Only think at might have happened to Deacon 0 of Baldwin, he been bless sensitive temperament! 1 with an equa Gettixe at THE Bopy or It,—Can any- body tell anybody when somebody or other body intends embodying in practical shape the Peabody bequest for poor bodies? If any body's business is nobody’s business, then everybody ought to let nobody attend to it out of regard for destitute bodies in general Won't somebody tell everybody to permit nobody to embody the Peabody plan for the benefit of the body politic. By the body of benfactor Peabody, somebody must be respon- sible for some other body's failure to reach the real body of the Peabody charity. Savino in time: Buyi a fifty-cent clock Ove reason fora man marrying his wife's sister: He will not thereby acquire another mother-inlaw. This reason, with most persons, is truly powerful. Then, watkin’ to the spot v mour has t, toadise factor, Axp now old Mr. Horatio Se; taken tothe ‘tow-path”—or, at le: cussion thereof, As a I however, it is not origin sonal grounds more tenable than any afforded by secondary considerations. As well es the “log-cabin. “railspli ting,” or “tanning” dodges! If Horatio can't trump up anything better than a pinchbeck invitation, he might as well elevate the sponge. The next successful Presidential candidate must at least be able to present grounds more tenable than those alr gone over in the last election, As the truly good and only great watermelonist, Horatio might stand a show; but second-hand pretensions will scarce- ly go down with the voting classes in the can- vass of 1884. nd-hard-cider, ANGELS and ministers of bosh de‘end us! But here comes forward Mr. A. C. Swinburne with a proposition to publish “a narrative poem in nine books!” Considerate Swin- burne! “Nine books!” Solomon evidently knew what he was talking about when he made his justly celebrated remark apropos of book-making and the prolificacy thereof, A Swineburneish pocm in nine books! Well, well Envoy extraordinary: A man sent abroad to tell lies for his countr; iy comicbooks.com