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This page is primarily **advertisements with one satirical article** about Christopher Columbus. The main content is a humorous essay titled "CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS" that ironically praises Columbus for his "discovering" talents, then pivots to mock American materialism and excess. The joke: Columbus discovered a continent and died poor, yet America—the land he "discovered"—is obsessed with pie. The author sarcastically catalogs American pie varieties ("dried apple pie," "mince pie") as evidence of national abundance and freedom, suggesting Americans' priorities are absurdly focused on consumption rather than honoring history. The piece also references a recent "fratricidal war" (likely the Civil War) and governmental "blunders" being exposed post-war, mocking both American politics and American smugness about superiority. The bulk of the page consists of period advertisements for perfumes, safes, trusses, pianos, and other products—typical of Judge's revenue model. A short anecdote about a "country darkey" dialect joke appears at the top (reflecting era-typical racial humor standards).

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THE JUDGE. his cup to get a drink of the water, When the country darkey had swallowed | the water, he smacked his lips and said: “Tgolly, that water’s good, show’s you be Mr. Town Dark importance, repli **In course hit’s good; hit’s boun’ ter be good, fur hit come 4,000 foot from der in- trils of der yearth, and hit’s been by der bes gymnus from ders ry, Wat yer think he say hit’s g «I dunno,” replied the ry darkey, smacking his lips after swa sliswiiig another cupfal of the water. ** Well, he say dere is ten grains oxhide , ten grains cowbonic gas, ten grains fox- forns acid and seventy grains hydrophobia in dat water—you know hit boun’ ter be good; dat’s-a-tease yer well, you bet "—and he walked awy ving the country dark and meditating. inally arked, ‘ Hit do tase powerful —[Detroit Free Press. with an air of great LUNDBORG'S PERFUMES, LUNDBORG’ § RHENISH COLOGNE. Novel Present. REDUCED for HOLIDAYS ONLY. (SALE LIMITED) MOSLER SAFE & LOCK CO'S SPECIAL HOUSE SAFES AT | $25.00. | (soup BY OTHERS at $75.00) | Size %3 Inches High, 16 Inches Wide, and 14 Inches Deep. | ATION LOCK AND INOHLY FINISHED. | | ta Bamples now on exhibition, | || MOSLER, BOWEN & CO., SS Buoapway, Bet. Sra AND $ru Sts, ‘New York, ve circulars | ce YORK ELAS-| TIC TRUSS CO., 744 Broadway, New York. CHRISTOPHER “COLU ‘MBUS Probably few people have been more suc- cessful in the discovering line than Chris- topher Columbus. Living as he did in a day when a great many things were still in an undiscovered state, the horizon was filled with golden opportunities for a man_pos- sessed with Mr. C.’s_ pluck and ambition, His life at first was filled with rebuffs and disappointments, but at last he grew to be a man of importance in his own profession, and people who wanted anything discovered would always bring it to him rather than take it elsewhere. And yet the life of Columbus was astormy one. Though he discovered a tinent wherein a millionaire attracts no attention, he himself was very poor. Though he r cued from barbarism a broad and beautiful land in whose metropolis the theft of less than a half a million of dollars is regarded as petty lar ris himself often went to bed hangr! Is it not singular that the hemisphere to the history of our globe, a hemisphere, too, where pie is a common thing, not only on Sund but throughout the week, and yet that he should have gone down to his gra 3! Such is the h y of progress in all ages and in all lines of thought an 3 Such is the meagre reward of the pioneer in new fields of action. I presume that Amer- ica to-day has a larger pie area than any er land in which the Cockney English is en. Light here where millions of tive-born Americans dwell, many of whom are ashamed of the fact that they were born here and which shame is entirely mutual between the dess of Liberty and them- selves, we have a style of pie that no other land can boast of. From the bleak and arid dried apple pie ine to the irrigated mince pie of the blue Pacific, all along down the line of ig- neous, volcanic, and ‘Stratified pie, America, the land of the freedom bird with the high instep to his nose, leads the world. Throughout a long and disastrous war, sometimes referred to as a fratricidal war, during which this fair land was drenched in blood, and also during which aforesaid war numerous frightful blunders were made which are fast coming to the surface— through the courtesy of the participants in said war, who have patiently waited for those who blundered to die off, und ioe admit that said participants who are dead did blun- der exceedingly through all this long and de gle for the supremacy of liberty and Hghtal was about to say when my of M CATARRM AND BRONCHITIS CURE zyman, after years of euffering from that vainly trying every known re him from death. Any sufferer from this disease sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Dr. J. Flynn & East tL, New York, will e the recipe free of charge. SEND TO A. LEDIG & Sow, PHILADELPHIA, PA,, FOR ESTIMATES ON NICKEL CUSPIDORES, BRASS TOWEL RACKS, ETC, ETC. EPLARGEST MANUFACTURERS OP BKASS GOODS IN THE COUNTRY. ANY PART, OF THE BODY deprived famalorfeasie Brio Medical Oo., Bufals, 1. Y. BUY YOUR OWN HOME! THE UNITED STATES BUILDING CO. Liberty Street, New York. ied sold on the monthly for those whe are not share. le as an Investment. Good Dividends Gaaranteed. Send for ctreular BOARD OF TRUSTEES. RFauiry, Prewt Yo. Ridgeway & Pitta RR, are of Cuesin & Dovor. Treas | Ro. Mnten. Ce Adirondack Raltway, of the Manhattan I Merchant. 2 Bond St, New York, ; Sec. and General Manager, ®@ Liberty OFFICERS President, - Cras. Ro Barney Viee-Pres't and Treas., » Witaasst I. Dostsotos Se. and Gen'l Manager, ~ Ravaoxp L. Arhiuet + +e Davin W. Civil Engineer + Kr Winuias C. ALuEno GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. BAKER'S Breakfast Cocoa. Warranted absolutely pure Cocon, from which the exceas of Oil has been removed. Tt bas three times the atrength of Cocoa mized with Btareh, Arrowroct or Sear, find ta therefore far more econoeal. I cat, costing less than one cent @ exp. It te delicious, nouriebing, strengthening, easly digested, and b admirably adapted for favaiide aa well aa for persone in bealth. Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. BAKER & C0, Dorchester, Mass, APRIZE: Kervateolutely sure. Terma’ PIANOS TORENT pret $4 oan And Kept In Tune Free of Charge. HoraceWaterséCo. 124 Fifth Ave., ith Kt.. NEW YoRE. comicbooks.com