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This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than a coherent political cartoon or satirical piece. The top section contains literary excerpts—one appears to be Shakespeare-influenced verse about painting ("madders," "ochre," "erysipelas") and another discusses scientific theories about Earth's age and composition. The actual satirical content is minimal. There's a brief humorous piece titled "BILL NYE ON THE EARTH" that pokes fun at conflicting scientific claims about the planet's age and properties—competing statements from "Prof. Proctor" and "the duke of Argyll" about Earth's age, and various pseudoscientific theories about drying up or the poles. The page is otherwise dominated by **advertisements**: Lundborg's Perfumes, James B. McNab's furniture, and The United States Building Company's real estate offering. **For a modern reader:** This reflects 19th-century popular science debates, where competing theories about Earth's geology were common fodder for humor.

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THE JUDGE. + | beneath the blazing madders I'll lay on.” | cording to Prof. Proctor, but she doesn’t planets nd orbs and one thing and another if || ‘There never rose madder crank in folly’s | look itto me. ‘The duke of Argyll main- have fun on the quict, you are grossly ignor- Pa m,and Ido pity now thy household, | tains that she is 1¢,000,000 years old last | ant of their habits. i || girl, ‘Thy flush conceit thou’lt dip in pris- | August, but what 1 ordinary duke | ‘The earth is about half way between Mer- | mic tints, a loading up thy mania with | know about these thi So far Tam cury and Saturn in the matter of density | Hi) | the same, thou'lt spatter all the chattels cerned [ will put Proctor’s memory | Mercury is about the specific gravity of iron, || " with the fle Walls, window-curtains, | against that of any low-priced duke that I) while that of Saturn correspor 1s with that — | ( | bedsteads, panels, trunks, pans, kettles, | have ever seen. of cork in the matter of density and specific i] | bread-boards, wash-tubs, and the like, thou swton claimed that the earth would gravity, The earth, of course, does not i) | wiltdedizen with thy palette’s gore and | gradually dry up and become porous, and Compare with Mercury in the matter of ai) florid poppys, jaundiced marigolds, and | that water would at last. become a curiosity, solidity, yet it is amply firm for all practical — | Wi such will ooze their ochre and. brick-red | Many believe this and are rapidly preparing A negro who fell out of the | i from every cranny i? thy bailiwick, Oh, [| their systems by a rigid course of treatment, twelve-story building while try- i have waded through this deluge, child! I | go that they ean live for years without the ing to clean the upper window by drinking have two sisters that have schooled a week | uge of water internally or externally phol and then breathing hard at Count Daubins’s i’ the market place, and |“ Orher scientists who have set up nights to says that he regards the earth 1 they have frescoed all our firmament, and | monkey with the solar system, 4nd there. & Perfectly s id safe to do business on | A flecked the walls with erysipelas, nor stayed | }\’chaitered their nervous systems, claim for sears to come. He claims that those i their pigment-reeking camel’s hair till bald | ¢fiat the early la wattive tench "at the Who maintain that the earth's crust is only ‘ ; f : ‘ op heavy at the | pate of me grandsire they'd veneered with | North pole. and. that Of theve, dag 22200 miles in thicknces have not thoroughly | ’ || sunflower featured like a mustard-draft, while we are thinking of something eles, tested the matter by a system of practical | ee, || to, Andromeda, thou’rt not too tol Affixthy | pile BG are UMNSINE Of something else experiments. } genius i’ some other groove, for Xerxes-host | and the vast accumulation of second-hand he poles of the carth are merely imagin- } | | | f anashiroors nee 0: wilt von comple ton | artic relief expeditions, will jerk the ary. ov ite o print hit atement i a large | | | PWR DIBOE Scere CaAe Bes ome out of its present position ‘with so much PF f gail sane. ae Sep | will attend their truil and sweep them head- | shontancity, and in such an extremely forth- Witton of great writers on this subject who } long i’ the broiling Styx. Sithoenaiice, tot susery et still cling to the theory that the earth re- Yonkers Gazette. anner, that many people will be per volves upon large poles and that the aurora } [Yo | manently strabismnssed and) much brie: | ! i — \t will be for sale at a great sacritic — == | THE DIFFERENC | This n or may not be true. I have not | i ; been up in the artic regions to investig: thirty daya of the use i hold, two frlends'go forth to-day; its truth or falsity, though there seems » lebratest We He with Bleetric: Suspen | Both are on pleanire: bent; be a growing éentiment througl | One to'the Leach & bis way, country in favor of my going. | | To watch the waves toss high their spray, many people during the past ye; \] | | a Fe eet Meee teeny, | weitten me and given me their eons | aan ra eet ice F If I could take about twenty good, pi , ow, what's the difference twixt the to? | men and go up there for the enmiuier ine ee re ees wih eas stead of bringing back twenty picked men I ] Tis simply: this, One:soes: be sights, | wouldn't mind the trip, and I feel that we The otberalgnte' ie sen . reall it to have alarger colony on ice \| [Boston Courier, | in that region than we have now, - | . — The earth is composed of land and water. BILL NYE ON THE EARTH. Some of the water has large chunks of ice | The earth is that body in the solar system | in it. The earth revolves around its own i | which most of my readers now reside upon, | axle once in twenty-four hours, though it | id | and which some of them, I regret to say, | seems to revolve faster than that and to | } modestly desire to own and control, forget- | wobble a good deal during the holidays. | ting that the earth is the Lord’sand the | Nothing tickles the earth more than to con- : | fullness thereof. Some men do not care | fuse a man when he is coming home late at | ) | who owns the earth so long as they get the ht, and then to rise up suddenly and hit | ki fulln him in the back with « town lot. People } The earth is 500,000,000 years of age, ac- | Who think there is no fun or relaxation ] - among the heavenly bodies certainly have i | not studied their habits. Even the moon is | ; a humorist. \| bd | A friend of mine who was returning late | } at night from a regular meeting of the So- | : | ety for the Amelioration of the Hot Fe oe ‘|| said that the earth rose up suddenty ! 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