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# Explanation of Judge Magazine Page Content This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge's social commentary: **Main Cartoon:** "What Comes from the Churn Should Go Round the Table" depicts a domestic scene where a child (Bridget) is being scolded for not kissing someone named "Papa." The humor appears to reference Irish servants and domestic etiquette norms of the era. **"New Rochelle's Danger":** This article satirizes the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's cost-cutting measures. The company saved money by not lighting passenger cars, leading to farcical incidents where passengers sit on occupied seats in the darkness—one unfortunate passenger sits on a lawyer, resulting in chaos when the train emerges into daylight. **Additional brief items** mock various public figures and events: a Colorado newspaper editor, revolutionary organizing concerns, Senator Brady's sudden wealth acquisition, Charles Dana's expensive house-building, debate over George Washington's existence, and miscellaneous social absurdities. The page's humor relies on the audience recognizing contemporary local figures, railroad practices, and social pretensions of the Gilded Age.
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“WHAT comes FROM TIE CItarh SHOULD GO ROUND THE TABLE.” Litter THrer-vear-oup, — "Why don't oo tiss Briddet, Papal Briddet didn't do notten!” The Retrain of the Commercial NEW ROCHELLE'S DANGER. Iy order to vary the mone journey between New York : towns on the line of the R.R., the officers of that most thonghtful of all thoughtful railroads, hi vided a means whereby the passen, emselves unlimited amu my of the daily | railn | buildin | track, the result i and damp stopping-place, The extremely high price of oil, combined j with the rheur nof the brakemen, } | vent the company from lighting their ‘cars, and, as it is utterly impossible for any one entering to see at all, some very entertaining incidents occur. The other morning when a train stopped, entlemen. entered, either end. Passenger 1 stepped tiously past four or five seats and then ; “0} a deep cut, a ed directly over the most beantifully dark and all, are always say that availing, wit ta bie Oh? shrieked a 2 voice, amid a roar of laughter when traveling | from the previons occupant. No. 1 hastily stepped back into the aisle, Meanwhile, No. 2, who, by-the-bye, was a sof Porkopol aris as the “Cin- afford | 3 well known lawyer, famous for his dignity, had groped. his ws her apparently empty seat into whi h he deposited his portly form: A yell of agony followed by a perfect storm of oaths and imprecations, ensued, in the | midst of which the astonished lawyer rushed through the car only to come in violent con- tact with the unfortunate No. 1, who had re- mained standing, fearful of further ventures, | en the car emerged into the light on | more, the conductor calmed the angry slum- berer, and soothed the agitated femal New Rochellites found seats, and the the passengers chuckled all the way JAKEY WORTH. A Tow Tuewn edit go stood on his tt madly bellowed : 1 TX in Colorado not bridged dictionary bh with penurious fru nious, profou And the imperturbed “Gath,” in spite of all this, refuses to arise and call’ the journal- istic whipper-snapper “cursed.” Dispatenes sent to newspapers in various sections of the country, inform us that revo- lution: rganizing for an ac- tive cam und that New York is to be the stamping ground for the communists of all Eure What ‘ou think of it, Supe- rintendent Walling ? Tir youthful and oratorical Senator, 1 rady, of this city, a few even- ings ago gave a grand dinner in the Windsor at Albany, in honor of Senator Dennis Me- Syracuse. We congratulate the | young Senator upon his sudden acquisition of wealth. Tur: fact that the Queen of England re- | cently received severe injuries by. slipping from the stairs of the Palace at Windsor awakens throughout Christendom sympathy in her behalf. Cuantes A. Dana is building a resi on Madison avenue, New York, and is to pay $150,000 for it. There is a difference in journalists. Some like to keep house and some like to board, We notice disputations articles in the daily out the existence of George Wash- will. In Martha’s time such a pre- Ypstenans idea was never tolerated at Mount emmon. cof Her Majesty's ser- forms an extra brave deed, Hy says to herself, Iam ed that I intend to make a Knight A SENTIMENTALIST say with beauty.” ‘That’ ed a wi and attractive dav Fill your house hat the man tried to ow with nine eligible ters. At Uniontown, Penn., the people continue to hurl their anathemas at Dukes, and one . y actually knocked down the Genius of Liberty at public sale. “Lovens’ Rock ” will be found at about every mountain resort and in the domestic nursery. Ir isn’t all rouge that reddens the noses of onr leading citizens comicbooks.com