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This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **"A Literal View of It"** (main cartoon): Shows a jewelry merchant reluctantly negotiating with a customer over diamond prices. The "Temporary Embarrassed Thespian" (likely a struggling actor) offers $5 for jewelry; the "Cautious Uncle" (Jewish merchant stereotype) insists he could get more elsewhere. The satire mocks both the haggling customer's desperation and the merchant's perpetual dissatisfaction—a common antisemitic caricature of Jewish businessmen as obsessed with profit. **"An Unfortunate Cabinet"** (article): Discusses Cleveland's cabinet appointments, expressing concern that the Democratic administration retains unpopular figures like Secretary Lamar and judges poorly. The criticism centers on Cleveland's alleged weakness in managing his executive team and inability to remove problematic officials. Both pieces use characteristic Judge-era stereotypes and political commentary targeting Democratic leadership competence and institutional weakness during the Cleveland administration.
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JUDG Tr. 3 doctrine of repudiation was endorsed by the A LITERAL VIEW OF IT. Republican party too much and too long, but who has been a mere make-weight in the political game and is that he is no lor ludly cast aside now y useful, and St. John of tis political birthright for a mess of pottage and never got the mess. res are suttic nee to the par and—Mrs. Stanton, Miss Lockwood and Dr. Mary Jupar has the | for the two first mentioned, son and little for the doctor; but, whatey t seems to be settled tH their way into the Kansas, who sold hird person singu Vital lov its never fore legiti LAPSES OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. Ines issweep the land. nv tell with: per fidence whether he is himself or some er person, and in numerous cases won have been known to absent themselves fre in the company wetting to take their hush | y leaving the children even to the | youngest born. The Hon, Jacob Sharp spends millions: and to save his supposititious soul wt tell what he did with them, and his ban TEMPORARILY EMBARRASSED Tiiesrtas—* What, only five dollar e equally at a loss to account for the Cactious Uscie—" Ohf t h het better chewels [vould gif you more.” the persons to. whom it was dis T.E. T—" Look here, Levi ! 1 believe that if L brought: you the Kohinoor you'd find some fault with it.” Cactiovs Uscie— Vell, you know dere ain't much market now for dem larch diamonts.” aman who arose in the t himself in the li How do you do, sir? “Pears to me | the Sune time inadvertently referred in come | he would be a very wise president indeed who Tvescen you somewhere, Face looks famili wntary terms to Mr, Cyrus W. Fi ‘ red eyes and why on Fifth a > But never complime nt, with all his good: S. Was surrounded at one time by bad y the nd te tshe had Jut where did you get the was recent! dand banged hi uty whose that swollen hy his cabinet down, and o mind. Come inand have breakfast and heen, and i : the town a dy of prompt dismissal saved his acquainted with the family.” When 1 man kissed his own wife Ininistration, Cleveland hast at virtue the family he shook ha 1 around that she was the widow « f standing by his friends as far as he safely and artist illustrates a hone shortly thereafter started down town inthe firm impression that he was somebody ° Mtoxicated and laid it to directs especial attention smashed a window and laid "upidly becoming unbearabl 1 checks teur to inoculate the public P the names of as many responsible nothing be done? ities thcodine them, and his faney that he was . = adesire and adetermination to have reform those parties had such possession of him that he | AN UNFORTUNATE CABINET. It is doubly for the Democratic imitated tl It is a pretty bad time for the e: ¢ the Republican party ’ a but it nem, ted that he has the firmness to dismiss then: vil which is | When the bounds of safety and honor have jemon which have come to his notice Presently he beew Smith. ‘Then hi Jones. ‘Then Is there no | been reached. The new administration has, inst it? | in filled out seve her words, reached the point of treme ind there are ne ind Jinet of | side of the he ir signatures with perfect aceu' In due season he went to his own b: Grover Cleveland. Mr. Cle ind is und shows a great many or and of robbed it’ in then, f cloud of his retention of G Jand | impatience to begin the campaign whieh is to started for Canada u the impression that | Leu nl has been out of favor nd in ISS8. Tt has an ever present remem it was necessary for Thompson to get with th the bonder with the caught and brought bac put him in stripes} sunee of its humiliation in ISS4 and a 6. ing desine to vindicate itself. The recent din wholly without s perats of the t rapidity. He was 1 when seeret and tried, it Detroit was a p rumors. ion of Mr, 1 respect to ‘ott for the we . and the netes of inter and Ferdinand, and oth with which the President was not thoroughly €¢ which pass betwee ly he died and refused to serve as the corpse, | acquainted when the appointment w Republicans, frequently interspersed with the alleging that he still lived; and when he found | Mr, Vilas’s course in ¢ remark and re quarrel which place over there he suf | postoffices has soured and alienated bly atte vox party health, show un We the | Mistakably that t) ee ee + te | Which the Democrats will have to work very is one of the | hand to win The president is quite unfortunate. It will will be a fered very little for the reason that he sup- | portion of the mugwamp posed the flames were tickling some other ident has sought alc individual. nd finally Mr, W y This wave, this epidemic, this general mis- | Philadelphia company whieh as acting as fHicts all classes. Frequentl Sharp in the robbery of the be a very important question directly, what t with their hands in other men’s dal whieh men | fence for Jacob of ens to drive into priv: > men and to send other public men to | The Rey. O. P. Clinton of Menosha, Mo. ». There remains but | vinet to hear from, the ring to do about that cabinet? an nd the blandest uptown grocery nadvertently g twelve ounces to | of t nd puts in the sugurbarrel the | Manning: and this gentleman is close This indicates such rly intended for the floor, A | nected with the Bell telephone company, | Mr. ( eh sermons | though not dishonorably so far as the JUDGE | tion general thing contributes onions i is at present informed rather than gold—that we hope he will ees to present to the president hence merely to meet his diamond weddir sof its profoundest sympathy. It is and weddings of still more precious memory n to mans I reward, even to the jasper sea the United States government, and | eternity of precious jewels that lic further on expression of blank innocence. Sometimes in tl urprise riven a $1,000 bag of by his congre non the o¢ Hof his golden wedding re worth on the part of ton—for the sm: written papers forget to giv temporaries which is th since Mr, Whit spect of Mr. ¢ latter's due, aw Reid spoke with some re Ithe latterabout | portion of th the exec Jones, 2 comicbooks.com