comicbooks.com Join Free

Judge, 1884-01-30 · page 3 of 16

Judge — January 30, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Judge — January 30, 1884 — page 3: Judge, 1884-01-30

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of "The Judge" Page ## Main Cartoon: "Nonsensical Nonsense" The illustrated cartoon depicts a figure in period dress at a cottage door, signed "Jos. Maark Del" with a New York address dated January 2, 1884. The satire appears to target modern artists' pretentious signature practices—the title mocks the "nonsensical" trend of artists dramatically signing their work on pictures themselves rather than simply inscribing signatures conventionally. ## Text Content The page includes several satirical pieces: - **"Mrs. Squizzle's Journal"**: Gossip-column satire mocking newspaper sensationalism and society women's vanity - **"The Witches of 1884"**: Humorous poem about unmarried women during Leap Year (when tradition allowed women to propose) - **"The Long Drop"**: Brief note about Liverpool hangman Marwood's execution methods The overall page exemplifies *Judge* magazine's satirical approach: targeting media excess, social pretension, and contemporary scandals through humor rather than direct political commentary.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ster, the | son of Attorney General Bre United States Government pos tleman with iy of the characteristics of Calo Dov bills 1 gen- m salient more When lawyers? ‘ome up to him for serutiny and) ap- proval, he does not waste His method of es the merit of simplicity, to the taste of the ders the bill and sends i ny time over them, m auditing accounts ud is en- ntlemar on mply marks it =O. K tobe paid. This isst eck items and tax charges. it to Buster,” ey it to Unele Fortunately, simpler than to « Mr. Brewster. s Sam,” and lets it both Buster in the in reality, appe Tue Ieper say . and Uncle Sam to be rich; still, so far as | as had an opportunity of ob- | serving, neither Uncle Sam nor “ Buster ™ at all satisficd with the liberties thus | taken with their bank accounts. are Mrs. Squizzle’s Journal. Newsrarens are awful story-tellers, Sally | Mari says, and I'm coming ovér to her opin- ion. For instance, [don’t believe. Vander- bilt said when asked if he didn’t think Villard w him on the trac of an ani that stor: pout Ander the Duke of Portland. the offer, it got on her h wont take up with don’t ¢ al eto having a life-size portrait of hersclf painted, and ‘it will take the cake over all others for size and beauty of finish,” ays; though Sally Mari doesn't way into fifty pounds as she did before her dent. If everybody was as modist there wouldn't be so much g I reek w, as handsome and enticing as her pic- turo is, she wouldn’t let any foreign prints soever have it to hang upin his draw room, partic “Our own Pri printses in Urip, been well cnough to have assisted at ew Year's reception he wouldn't gover the rough road of life now. In her sky blew velvet, nble the new moon and fall- heen overpowering > beauty wo painted to re she’ nd Brewster in the ing in the pa qnickly, but [tell Sally Mari non plans seem feasible too me. ‘The « thing is to take a tumble from the F aging the ing them | objects, not so much tot s the keep- ing in bed afterwards; so 1 think when the sther changes Pll take a trip up the Hud- | do hunt for Kidd’s treasure. There seem to be a number of companies formi but [ object to company business on princi- Everybody ms to get the lion's are but nm aly be I don’t be- long to the porcine cl wnimals that I'm to deli lecture on as soon as 1 can secure a haul. a fortune | w vy M of th Hse. THE JUDGE. Seay te 8, ie LZ) 2 YG > ry The The Witches of 1884. lest Way modern artists ba We: were just at the G Tn which bas! But a bliss whe in four ul bachelors feel it no bor beset by fair being f hymenial hiteh ful, wh thus f + bewitching, hoon to the I the dear wite far off, adore, sof affection (not broomstick they would jest men marry—the men_ they love best! oon to the “empty girls,” fair but forlorn, Who feel so well fitted The homes of the «adorn hful for life, 1 that offers such joys Lif you try every ** Barkis is willin’, lad te He no more car Than Cay coumb to y your feminin Bunsby through cedless to cheer ry never know fear; are ever the same, a re not to my liking, scinations more wholes My faney to frotie, and hy Wish all the dear witches rtily he lucky Leap Year! Moston Transcript, Witar is the most vicious form of govern- ment? Vice-royalty. DEW KOR 2% uon Str Gy w SAVE RACK Sxcono Day Vw. or J AN, ir names to pictures, The Long Drop. or long ago the uthorities of Liverpool found fault with arwood, the late hang man of and, for using his long drop, asserting that a quick death was a violation of the direct letter of the law, which to “be hanged by the neck till dead.” ‘They contended there should be an interval be- tween the drop and the culprit’s ascent up ‘The same Liverpool shal- crowners recently the newly appointed exec his drop too short, thereby causing of two or three minutes in the eulprit’s ney to the realms wry. ‘The sympathetic *Growner ” indignantly compared the * poor work” done by Binns with that of Mar- wood's quick method, and admiringly ex ted upon the scientific mode of old ¢ ft—a short dropper-—who, as soon as th trap was sprang, quickly ascended and the feet of the da like an acre words of the refined coron life was ended.” Coming to the long and the subject, the Liverpool wises to be hanging between two ¢ proved themselves a noose-ance, and un they drop the matter touching the proper modus operandi of despatching criminals, their absurdities will lead them into a ridieu- lous frap, and to cap the climax they will require a little strapping or ropesending to bring them to a proper mental equilibrium, wntil, in the the battle of short of the res, who seem in have Ile looked Wilde knee he eried “ Llyod have mere consequence was, Miss Constanc engagement to Oscar Wilde the poet. dropping on one comicbooks.com