Judge — October 27, 1883 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. boom, which started off so aggressively in the columns of your ontemporary, the Sun, a week or the editor of that great moral lur ut Mr. | : ; or has | rates on th vy The palpitating rt of the nation stills its beating in order s lof our Wi to have commenced |i) drive wicke ‘4 it would for the nation if they had remained perhaps the horned exttle and the would object! Charley Foster, of Ohio, was in the } » bragging aide Judge Hoally sick ities in Ohio are in such a h gish condition that th nation heave with disgust. Miss Hill, of California, declares that h Sen Bill Sharon is ad frand. Ss rm Senators are said and mule | ure » better o—but mules | ve w boy who te ; he did not attend to the high duties he was paid by his country to perform, will be in- to back the lady up in her outspo e good cnough to accept the foregoing | ks in lien of the important gossip your | pondent would have collected for your readers had he not been prevented by one of the most extraordinary convulsions of nature 3 ever been his lot to encounter. Your ndent had been visiting the bedside 21st volume of census statistic at he might await tl ng of Terrors with agerness. As ho cle e front behind him it was exactly one o'elock a. He is quite certain it was one o'clock: h d the clock in the tower of th dral, close bi trike that hour three consee- utive times. It was at this moment that the phenomena, to which he has referred, com- menced. The sidewalk, which hitherto had been as level as a billiard table, suddenly up- heaved, and struck your correspondent a se- | vere blow on the nose; staggered by the une | looked for and unprovoked assault, he made } for a lamp-post which stood near by. Pie- | ture his astonishment at beholding swerve | to one 5! thou which ext inoffensive middle of the street he found, to his ho: th the street nning to make preparation to stand up on end, and it was with the greatest dif- | ficulty that your correspondeut prevented himself from. sliding down hill for several i As it was, his hat rolled and on lost in the darkn reulean ssume an posture, but so violent was the carth- quake that he felt as if he were standing on the deck of a vessel in the midst of a cyclone, and he had to make ten determined attempts | before he could regain the sidewalk. ad quieted down somewhat by this time, and your correspondent managed to progress per- | haps three blocks when a huge brown-ston: and-marble house, which adorned the cor- not, suddenly slipped in front of him and | ating to | fp yitadi hebben unless we A SAVING Now, den, Brudder Simon, yon know ch good book says we neber Parsoy Bryexnenny rgubs our enemies, SiMON (vert sick) Ps Stson (fo Sam, who is very pe barred his wa pendent was h fied at this terrible state of Aut poorly expresses his feelings, In order to get away from that perambulating nsion the writer was compelled to walk pitel building twice, and then After ached? the door of » and here anew and awful sur i ited him, The force of the shock had split up the keyl and the upward of six of them gaping at him from different parts of the de By the ingen- ious device of shutting one eye, pondent reduced their mumber t of which r some fifteen mint tion, he found the original o cover, to his amazement, that he had been u k the door with the handle o: toothbrush, whieh, during the stru f ed natu had found its way inte the pocket where you pondent usually keeps his lateh-key. ing up his cour- mid the horrors which would ce! have unnerved a man of weaker intellect, the writer went for that keyhole tually got the best of it—but, the hou 1 the door slammed noisily be- » were your eo: thre hind him, the terrors through which he had | nd he on at seven o » in the t have ck, the milk, she me him, for whe me to t struggled ove fainted awa servant g To say that your corres: dis CLAUSE. Yes, dat’s a fack—but [can't forgih dis yere Sam Johnsing. OS, (awfully solemn)—Den yer knows wher yer ywine, itent)—Well den, Siam, 1 forguhs yer—but recolleck, if I | Luppens to yit oher dis, de ole arndge stands goo correspondent on the floor of the hall lin the umbrella stand, st helple and his f the Strange to say, no men- ny of the morning pape of this marvelous convulsion of nature forces. Your correspondent ean count for the omission by supposin body in the city but himself was asleep— or too intoxicated to notice it. [This is the fifth tim has been overtaken. by quakes, Tf it occurs pm- ulty of writing up that pnd him tol and make him v there until their next upheaval takes }—Ep pelled—as he appears to possess the —to hia or the Ir is said, by some John L. Sullivan happy medium.” ppy medium th the Hobby of the Hub, ts folks, that “struck the rely beeause sand to env has nev hat’s nm sive, divine,” is » notice that it is never quoted to us when we make a mistake. We have to do the quoting for ourselves.