Judge, 1883-08-25 · page 13 of 16
Judge — August 25, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge contains several brief satirical pieces typical of the magazine's humor: **"The Milkmaid"** presents a comedic monologue where a milkmaid calculates her future wealth by projecting egg production from her cow's milk, arriving at increasingly absurd financial estimates. The satire targets naive optimism and poor mathematical reasoning. **"Fright and Fear"** discusses medical cases involving deaths from apparent fright—a lizard's touch causing cobra-like symptoms, chloroform deaths. The satire critiques physicians' tendency to blame patients' psychological states rather than investigate actual medical causes. **"Modern Railroad Building"** satirizes railroad speculation and stock manipulation. A Wisconsin railroad organizes to seek investment; when questioned about profitability, the promoter admits the line exists primarily to sell stock and uniforms to officers—exposing the fraudulent nature of Gilded Age railroad schemes. The pieces collectively mock credulity, medical incompetence, and financial fraud—common Judge targets during this period of rapid industrialization and dubious business practices.
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. 4 pt — <= S| THE JUDGE. 13 | iit . 7 : _— - cli The Milkmaid. | Fright and Fear. Modern Railroad Building. By! 3 | A MILXMAID Who poised a full jail on her ling to the Lancet, | Last rata narrow- a head. recently died with all the symptoms of cobra | two miles long was plante | ‘The mused on her prospects im life. it is ning, because a harmless lizard touched organized in Wisconsin, and an i said: 1 with its cold body. Of two boats’ whe scented a chance for protitab! i + Let me see— should think that this milk | erews ence en k upon some | ment called upon the President ton will produce South Sea Is nded men in. inquir How is the new line | Sie One hundred good eggs, or four-seore. to be r they all re- | on?” he asked, after some gencral conversa- | sure, i simple explanation wasy that tien,‘ Splendidly. We have the right of | . ‘ot be fors in the tir way for the tirst tive miles, n fe Wall then=etopim bits Iemmse nol be Cor Menace ta arrows, but | steps to gobble it for the other | | et, tlicro’ was 10 apparent Mofleiguoy in tie four: | ©" Now much stock have you iseucd?”” i | Soine af: these mabe:laken) stoning they dlapleyed. A; plyehainn, died of | hundved. thousand “And how | nat ittwanty, foreneeident, anid ‘be flor visiting a patient alflieted “much has been sold? . yon see, it i poe . the preliminary thy [We hive + \ ee diuai-sixlvreountivemastin'tie “timex. to buy blue uniforms for ; he mall oye Lanes Shey nl egpe:¢ some 1 officers, furnish up several Children 1 javing beneath a gil malefactor hung in el elves by throw! tuck the ske upon one of the t where a rooms with mah amused them carpets, stones until a missile cient to purchase I Hand made it move: wheres President, Secretary lied of fright and horror, nish the Superint rany desks and mosquette as we can work off sufli- Well, sixty sound eg; T me Of these some may die—we'll suppose seven- t with a vacht, we Seventeen? Not so many—say ten. at the But the child could not have been **afra shall begin-the real s work of buil ie mest, of the « in any proper sense of the up a grand trunk line."—Wall Street News, Which will leave fifty chickens to boil or to | term, or she would not. have played there, . aH Ib was hurrying along Centre street the i roast. much less have thrown stones at it. With oinee eal ice ntiont I . | ee eee ee dene other morning, when a boy about his own i Six shillings a pair ur, threeand six, | Such instances, ma ; stopped him and ¢ + Struck t ‘To. prevent Ail caiutalies. that Now price L picion, it would be easy to fill“ vohame What Will fix. Within the last two weeks two deaths have Now what will that make? fifty chickens, [) been re] tel in sue prone ie Som ? : said, . ae ee cite dar ono cade ute aheeik “Cans a lawyer, he'll give me ten iia Fifty times three and sixpence— Pll ask | cused of theft, in on by a shopman: cents and predict that V'Il be President some brother N ‘ es iy & Foviecman. Only I at if he’s a broker he'll fip me half a ‘Twenty-five pairs of fowls—now how tire- abarro Il ind not care two cents whether I bris > me it is y the lar’ up in Washington or Halifax! S' long } a pare ‘ . stered | Wall Street News. i That [can’t reckon up so much money to him, though he was quite willing to un- wt . i dergo an amputation without wsthetic, | A FLOAYING ITEM says that the “ peelings nit no use of trying, so TH give a) phe man was well known t murag of green encumbers will kill cockroache = . and physically strong; and, but for th iomabout it, Green eneum 1 I'll say twenty pounds, and itean be no less. | that he died bh clilovotorm was really. | anything, if you could only t Twenty pounds, 1am certain, will buy me a | the © been slow to believe | at them. Be t they won! N cow, : mid od of fright, d before they could be F. 1 se and two turkeys—eight pigs | and only too sFeady to bar physicians. kroach that was in its A sow; . But there is ** no knows American | right mind,—Leck's Sia, i wif t wont well, at the end of the ee ohal seu cnn tI you | Wires the editor proposed and was ac- i year . RELI ND: cepted, he said to his sweetheart: 1 would Hef I shall fill both my pockets with guineas, ‘tis | aie Prince of Wales being at his tail be glad if you would vive mea “then, i clear, aide Poole. | on the list blush, he ad y Forge her burden, when this she had » who attended Lady ‘s party. tion, but asa guarant } id, your highness, | went around for a u She could not resist th j ‘The maid supercilionsly tossed up her heads You must have had acapital | Somerville Jonrual. | + When, alas for her prospects! her milk-pail Poole: mm not?” = Well, your | Smart we learn Freneh?—Chieago News. ia descended, : ant enough, vou know. | If you go to the theatre much it might be : And so all her schemes for the future were | Nuthin’ extra.’ "What was the matter | worth while. By the way, what's ; ended. with it? [should suppose you would enjoy | out and see a man” in s ‘ * ‘ i eamong all thenobs.” ++ You see, | News, Oh, it’s about the i This moral, [ think, may be safe —you must have scen by the | lish—ten cents a drink, and a clove thrown * Reckon not on Corl Janeial ihe society was a little—just | in. — Norristown Herald, a re hateh any snr “ Axynow,” said a young lady, who had \ | with a piece 5 See GRday eke (NY CER may have been frightened at a snake in the i! dy toher A New York paper, referring to the «but she never had a nasty Ye | a conpling bee did yon see in yourd going to marry—when [am dear erpillar craw] down the neck of her And we don’t suppose she ever had. istown Herald. Tre man who asks “ Are you goin: Tattended | Shepard tragedy in that city, asks in big certainly Pdid.”) And | types: Did) he Murder His Wife Before nthe person you are | Killing i If?" Of course it is mere con- er She | jeeture. 1 impression prevails that he asked, chillin; did, We I ave our opinion of the man who | this samme: dentally met the that [had never been married at all. . Kills himself, and then gets up and murders ‘Is this hot enough for you? Lam going to save this bit of cake: Fam | his wife. Norristown Herald. | idtog thonght he was gr going to cherish it, my dear, I shall have its ne children: “Why | they had ‘it hot and h A CLERGYMAN ask: portrait painted by an old master, and its’) gy we say in the Lord's Praver, *who art in| Man came out of the bec . where he statue shallstand inthe library. As anheir- | fo, od is everywhere?” A little and parted the —New Or- | loom it shall descend—" She snatched it | : trans Pionyene. i Because it's head- from his hands and flung it out of the bed- antec It's head | room window, ** My love, it hasd le she said, sweetly. — Now Francisco Wasp. which we enjoy are passin 8 Archbishop Leighton. Of course it 2% : er to pass, but it gets decidedly monoton- . 15 per cent. since she left for Sho | Sor bene Nadie | Ay Oil City choir at rehes aturday TAP hrobubly. take trade delareag the box ous HE the Archbishop only knew the joy | | night ran_oser the * Hallelajah Chorus. of scooping in a big pot o -tailed flush, } | The ghacie scraped uninjured. Oi City oflice when she comes back.—Phila, Bulletin. ye would ti Derrick. A peacock doth a wondrous tail unfold. | and make his ante good.—Cin. Sat. Night. comicbooks.com