Judge, 1886-02-06 · page 4 of 16
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of 1880s American humor: **Main Cartoon - "The Power of the Gang"**: Shows a police officer confronting a boy near barrels. The dialogue reveals the officer's powerlessness: the boy threatens that "the slaughter house gang" will retaliate if the cop arrests him. This satirizes urban gang culture and police inability to control organized youth crime in cities—a genuine social problem of the era. **Miscellaneous Brief Items**: Short, often crude jokes about contemporary figures (opera singer Emma Juch, politician Sam Jones) and social observations (women's fashion, clerical hypocrisy, a headless corpse identified by playing cards). **Bottom Section Dialogue**: Brief exchanges mocking pretension and malapropisms—a man called "Robinson" is actually "one of our big guns" (an important person). **Footer**: "Evolution Illustrated Again"—a peacock sequence likely mocking Darwinism debates popular at the time. The page reflects Judge's characteristic approach: cynical commentary on crime, class, religion, and contemporary absurdities, with crude but pointed social criticism.
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| | | | i | 4 TL JUNG'S KUNCL. Mr. Gin Fun, a San Francisco Chinaman, is case of very had hu The accident that happened to Emma Juch the other night may be looked upon as a blow to art. Patti is suffering from bronchitis at a cost of about 84,000 a night. This is the most dr ful sickness yet. The Rey. Sam Jones is going to Richmond It will take him a great deal longer to capture it than it did Grant There is a man in Philadelphia with half a brain, Where he got the extra quarter from is question that greatly puzzles the local 1 society A St. Paul pape in her stocki amount of fictiti remarkably cold. tells of a lady with $25. ather that makes that ith necessary must be ie w Is Wal The man who, coming out of the Metro politan Opera House, said he had witnessed the very besom of destruction didn't: know how to spell. : but woman will not be perfectly happy until she can have eyes attached to her shoulders, so that she may look up to and eri ack hi Mr, John She cast-off cor Ages will come and her own ir, it his best boot ina nearly bro The bloody skirt ! he exclaimed, shaking his fistat it likean angry Sullivan. A number of young women have made themselves famous by bang urry twe men on the same day. This is a kind more-manism that must be stopped. nal kind is far better. Wales, Beatrice and two of the Titth Waleses assisted the Queen in. the arduons work of opening Parliament. Battenbe would have put his hand in alse but bad cold and lack of the requisite invitatic The Rev. P ine Wr Philadelphia, is believed t kind; but the father of an hh. who preaches bea man of that to whom he married a ovenlid him in the interview that rapidly en sued, The body of a headless man has been identi fied by the fact that it had a pack of cards in d coat-tail pocket. We beliew Mr. Beecher still lives; but then the the pack in question may have marked it in a way peculiarly his own A Chi about tom its » widower forty-four years old was rry a young lady when his son of twenty-« JUDG kK. | THE POWER OF THE GANG Her. yon get ont of this. Don't yer he too fresh, Mr. Cop. Yer « je tual x Orrickn—" Here young ONE OF DE Gase Wt know dis heat, T bele de slaughter house gang, and first you know you'll have ng down on yer ce of his wife iat her, of all villainy and m: 1 there was Tones. That is the most wretched ris that the tthe father's Y with his mother, nitly int reonly wend A inirrer, wonde fe that ih favered creature ean from and why he did't ¢ unseruputous youth didn't prove first marriage by runni he harber-shopand get shaved SHOULD HAVE HAD A SPELLING LICENSE. The dyi went off | ewords of a philosophical lady who tten i taweek an not te be believe,” she remi that death has ne Rerenne Clerk (te party who has got inte | grat victory over me. Tt is true that 1 the wrong shep)—" You want a liquor Ti scaped observation, but it conse 17 ked that they New York We ver had my sir: Twanta marriage license. When k her PITH not wait Of the man who can't re | fr Hee dowho if he does can't tell LOADED. Pesessors ane | just going up street? 1 whether they deserve |” Jones—"That?, Oh, that's Robinson, Te’s Fr the blow—is excessively disugree: | one of our big guns.” his} Smith—* Tum nize them or not yd when and where friends ¢ the kiss There enemies with, whe inated ud T seness by his walk he f aneighber te the EVOLUTION ILLUSTRATED AGAIN. comicbooks.com