Judge — April 18, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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| THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ( CE A WERK, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (siren States axo Casava. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 324, 826 and $28 Pearl St., NEW YORK. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. rar-Conne STS WILL PLEASE TAKE SOTCE THAT THEY Sesp Mee To Tus oFICE aT THER Risk. WHERE staMrs WHERE 4 PRICE Is $07 VIED BY THE WRITER, oe REMCSERATION WILL WE ESTERTAINED. WHERE PRO RATA O¥ THE FRICE AGREED CRON FOR THE WHOLE TAKING A NEW HITCH. For fear it may have escaped the atten- tion of the vigilant reader, Tue JupGe | volunteers to inform him that there has been a good deal of improvement in the mechani- || cal and artistic execution of the few later issues, and increased efforts to make the reading matter excruciatingly funny. There is also a purpose on the part of a new hand at the wheel to make THe JupGe something other and better than a comic paper, by put- | ting a determined purpose in it. We mean that there shall be many true words said in jest, many a picture with “a moral into it.” ‘Tue JupGe is not to be merely a court jester. So if anything hereafter herein that provokes a smile also inspires a serious thought, do not return your borrowed copy to the owner and demand that the price of it be refunded. ‘These presents begin the eighth volume. Tue Juve holds by life tenure, and as he has the secret of rejuvenation, cheerfulness, many more volumes may be anxiously looked for. ONLY A BLIND. | Iris accounted unto him for righteousness that President Cleveland has appointed a Republican to be postmaster of New York. The idea of the Mngwamp seems to be that Pearson’s appointment offsets such confessed- ly us ones as Higgins’. Now, it is conceded that one good Re- publican can leaven a large lump of Demo- cracy, and this slight attempt of Mr. Cleve- L _ : THE JUDGE. land to give respectability to his official list is commendable in so far as it is an ac- knowle A BRISTLING APPOINTMENT. jgement that there isno Democratin| THe same mal-adroitness that caused the the Metropolis fit to be preferred for the office. | new Secretary of the Treasury to select for But the motives of the actor, if ascertain. appointment clerk, Higgins, the notorious color the be justified in preferring to the e able, mu und we may motives that the Mugwumps ascribe for the them on those which the unjust Mexican Cleveland the selection of a ci y contradicts his eulogists. He present oursweet courtesie is a ‘vigorous foreign to be sure; it will not e: appointment of Mr. Pe: Mr. Cleveland himself unfortunately ows his views, that he used the ) haps spoils broker, and P alted affront Mexican sensibilities by sending to said to the journal that most nearly reflects Bismarck. ew York Post poli sident Cleveland to minister one of the veterans of » must have inspired n of Porkpoils to to the hog-hating lard oil Office patronage to pay off his personal debt on the diplomatic waters troubled by the late to the New York liberals. ‘Chere was no quarrel between Herr Bismarck and the reform pretence in it; no thought of public American Minister. As there is a spice of service; not even a consideration of Demo- retort in this cramming a Cincinnati ham | cratic interests. It was a barter of o! support of Grover Cleveland —y possibly, prospective. If there was any policy in it, it was to cover up bad appointments, a blind. Eulogy of the act must come from men under whose standard regards the sin consists in being found out. de Originating from 3o low a motive, we may reasonably expect wor: ppointments to follow to offset this and keep down the the average quality. Josh Billings said he had ta known a mule to be good six weeks to chance to kick some one. clerks! THE SPECTRE OF EUROPEAN POLITICS. volume —size suff Mr. Evarts’ most eloquent sentences, Rvssta is strong geographically and by her weakness. She has no navy to be tacked by a foreign foe; no out-lying depen- dencies to defend; her scattered population and great area make invasion profitless and indecisive, if not fatal to the suc inertia contributes to 1h She is feared and dreaded by all her neighbe because her outlying Indian lot sions of no other power—a line undefined, re- land, but one the mote and inaccessible to I upon which Russia moves fr acircle. Russia, albeit without a navy to They meet England, has by far the larger army. is off to them. England is therefore stronger than Russia on the sea, and in a protracted struggle only excels in the matter of money. To compensate for this advantage England has a troublesome war on her hands in Soudan, insurection in Manitoba, chronic q Irish enmity and a home population honey: hi combed with Republican ideas and industrial still, the Si says he is 3 in position to discontent. In this condition of affairs, with Bla was dazzled by the Russian Aurora Borealis. The spectre that haunted Bonapart and has cast its lurid glare on politics ever since, is now in one of its structive of bees. brilliant outbursts. What distur! the political atmosphere shall result? Redeived on = Priced exchauve fom ‘Tee H.W. Wilson Co. avce 0 ce for down the throat of Germany, , and need not squeal about the appointment, no matter how much Bismarck may bristle up abont it. Indeed, we are inclined to approve. It ats German exclusiveness. from Cineinna enial ‘Gene. ENE IltGeixs, the Baltimore ‘ Blood- appointment-clerk under the reform administration, is com neminent Dy C Tub” . sful ins mended by vader, as in the case of Bonaparte. Her very as bein r formidableness, rats counts jokes. Hot-box forgeries and false d legislitures harmless i ‘Their hugest joke in this line is their England may fear her most of any power Gisfranchisement of a million and a half of in Southern Republicans whom th Russia’s path of expansion, as are the posses- ly represent in Congress and the electoral col- By a refinement of humor they claim that Cleveland, thus returned, was elected by the majority of the people, and they keep nside of their faces perfectly straight while saying it. | lege. re rare humorists, Tue JupGe’s hat Not a Hambletonian. Disc prove that the Pre pb Democrats are trying to Prof. Phelps’ unfitness for the office conferred upon him by puting the authenticity of certain copper | 1 speeches of hisduring the war. V June is not of t y that Mr. Phelps stock, but is of ‘pure Vermont ee—if that will do him ck Hawk ped ment almost ready to unhorse him, Gladstone any good. regime Apvices from the rural districts say the severe and de- || It is predicted that there nces of will be a marked increase of pic-nics during the summer to restore the festive average. ropean past winter has been very it were, we Bismarck may | be able to exclude American pork on the assumption that it contains trichinw, but how will he feel when he finds that, in spite | of prohibition and customs vigil | received with his court a specimen fresh | i with a maggot in his brain? — | | ‘The German oaths that this porcine coup | nee, he has delat will inspire will have to be forwarded to our department of state as petitions for s are now filed, in a large bound | cent to contain one of | the treasury tic authority e Demo- fraudulent- Q rse | D Hamiltonian, Tne \ comicbooks.com