Judge, 1886-07-03 · page 4 of 16
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This Judge magazine page contains satirical commentary on contemporary (late 19th-century) social issues presented as humorous briefs. **Main Cartoon ("No Beauty in His"):** Shows two men in conversation. The caption reads: Johnson—"I shall never marry for beauty"; Satterson—"And the one that gets you won't either." This is a straightforward joke mocking Johnson's unattractiveness—the implication being that no woman would marry him for his looks anyway. **"Hum of the Court" Section:** A collection of short satirical items targeting various targets: English parliamentary behavior, con artists (fortune-tellers being arrested), incompetent lawyers, novelist inconsistencies, and Henry Ward Beecher's hypocrisy (preaching free trade while charging high lecture fees—"not consistency—it is business"). **"4th of July Racket":** Two illustrations appear to satirize Independence Day celebrations, though details are unclear from the OCR'd text provided. The overall tone ridicules public figures, social pretense, and everyday absurdities through brief, biting commentary typical of Gilded Age humor magazines.
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| Inarecent quarrel about a swing in Chili. cothe, Mo., one man killed another. We | don’t know which party got the swing, but | the one that did the killing is going to have it, NO BEAUTY IN HIS. The failure of the English parliament to ad- journ on the arrival of Henry Watterson ought to make Uncle Sam mad enough to put nada in bis vest pocket and run away with her. A Dayton dispatch tells of a man who | “played the mute dodge and captured two | wives.” Ifhe had been a woman he would ‘e captured six husbands with such a dodge that. The Pittsburg Despatch says that the aver. age young woman is more courteous than the rage young man. Let us not give her too | much credit, however, It may be a mere mat. ter of timidity. The Philadelphia News is raiding the local | fortune-tellers. One of them has already | to the penitentiary, and the others say are so agitated that they | may bring forth. | Attorney Iken of Rushville, Neb., was re. cently tarred and feathered, and now sues for esin the sum of $25,000, Th prices of lawyers will bring the whole c try to ruin yet. 3 Somebody blames a novelist. for gi licroine blue eyes on one page and gray oneson { another. At first glance this does seem rather odd, but it must be lembered that there is changeable weather in e JorNsox—" T shall never marry for beauty "— — —— Srtusoy—* And the one that gets you won't either.” 4TH OF JULY RACKET. nt have been merely ec- Misi of the Gortrt. oe ine gor tnen jot the same. The voters of this country are all Mrs, Cleve- land men. The Memphis Avalanche We don'tknow what the editor of the Albany | “tvs every, Tower should be a Argues is sutfering from, but he says there's no al fool. oth tie lever such thing as hydrc nyhow. that “tea tena make: up iis 6 mind that he has mistaken his ys a writer in one of the | attliction. Thank heaven! We wouldn't have! —_ anything else foranything in this world, Mr. Beecher in his lectures = lin England will praise free trade, but he will ist on having protection prices for the lectures. This is not con- sistency—it is business. Miss: Folsom once took a prize for making pie. If the man who ate the pie is living. will he kindly step to the front and give his expe- riences ? _ Aman in Tur s entitled to four wives, and yet the: e men there who will never be happy until they get the one they cannot pos- sibly have, In a recent destruction of freight cars on a southern _ road several tramps were | An exchange says Prince Napoleon is as full crushed to death. Whatever of bombast as e nd really we do not re-|the monthly reports) may member that he ever amplified himself on show, that road has done a} anything else. good business. A medical authority says one-half the adult} men living in our cities are bald, The cavse| The daughter of General of this is not given, but we have our suspicions | Gordon of Georgia is said to of hair restorers. |be “a dream of feminine low . jliness.” It seems to us th Ifit is true as alleged that Gail Hamilton | the staff that dreamsane made will marry a physician, the gentleman will of jg not half adapted to that first have to submit to more or less of her po-| business. litical doctorin’. | —— Aimee says the English language isa mis-| TWo or three great minds, take. The conversation one is obliged to listen | teconding to Sam Jones, doall to certainly shows that that is the case to a the thinking for thiscountry. waiy large extent: |We don't know wh ° - the minds alluded to, but The question as to whether Ludwig was ec-!they haven't earned their centric or mad is of no consequence now. He! money lately. | There she goes! (to get more water, I guess). comicbooks.com