Judge, 1886-11-13 · page 4 of 16
Judge — November 13, 1886 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page from Judge (a 19th-century satirical weekly) contains brief political commentary and a cartoon titled "At the Chowder Club Ball." The text consists of short jabs at contemporary figures and issues: Chauncey M. Depew (a railroad executive and politician), Sam Randall, Henry George (the economist), Ben Butler (the general and politician), and Sir Charles Dilke (a British politician facing scandal). References to volcanic formation in South Carolina and Geronimo appear to be topical jokes. The cartoon depicts a raucous, chaotic dance scene with exaggerated caricatures of working-class or immigrant figures in disorderly celebration. The caption quotes dialect speech: "Lift me a little, Mistah Willyums—lift me! Yo saint turned 'round me' on free times since we kem on de Bowah!" The satire appears to mock urban immigrant culture and lower-class entertainment, representing them as crude and ridiculous for middle-class readers' amusement—typical of Judge's approach in this era.
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other man. Why doesn’t he stay in his grive and behave himself like a good, respectable corpse? Mum of the Court. There is a rich field for an earthquake to work at Montreal. Favorite theology of the riding school—The sermon on the mount Chauncey M. Depew insists that he, too, is an edite dit must be admit far as the fre 8 part of i Sam Randall's connection with 1 should think it would carry him off. A scientist tells us that a volcano is forming in South Carolina. It seems to us t His scores |ernor of that state ought to issue a pros! tion. The Liberty is not feeble, but those poems in her honor must be stopped. The trains of bridal dresses and consequences will be unusually long this fall. Geronimo is a prisoner of war. of victims are prisoners of death, Mr. George is better qualified to write a book on progress and poverty now. There were indications in Park row on Liberty day that the statue was put up mostly es a ringing for the benefit of Joseph Pulitzer and Har It is the clergyman who for it at a Howard, speech and gets a five-dollar s - wedding. | The newspaper portrait need deceive nobody. The Detroit Free Press says the baby-cart| Why! the name of the man_ pre i must go. We don't see what is to prevent it Printed underneath in letters so large that they if the nurse k who run may read, ps sober. — After all, the mugwamp has good cause for) Mrs. Langtry is said to be v rejoicing. He didn’t elect a president, but he pistol. Perhaps this expl has one just the same. try doesn't choose to follow manner of poor little Benzine. expert witha $s why Mr. Lang: the her up aft The Pittsburg Dispatch says Henry George has been raising a bugbear. It looks to us| Sir Charles Dilke he will devote his like an entire me whole life to the disproval of the charges When Ben Butler says he is clean out of Proved against him. Does he expect to live as long as the late Mr. Methuselah ¢ ageri polities he pays politics the most magnificent le compliment it has ever had. | Sam Cox presented the sultan with an t demands better accordion. It is believed to have been his rked when he/|only joke in Constantinople, but if he returns (he will find that it was very far from amusing. “Blaine,” says a contemporary, “has been They tellof a1 nin Canada who dead since 1884." If that is thecase cloped with Will erick because he ne has more impudence than any had threatened to kill her children if she “Ttis the rent que home rule,” as Bagl pinned up the back ion thi yore AT THE CHOWDER CLUB BALL. . observes that sl didn't. Motherly devotion couldn't go much further than t without paying twice the usual amount of fare. Not the autumn leaf which lies in drifts; not the leaden clouds the gale now lifts, nor yet the falling flakes that eddy down, but an Jncle Toin's Cabin Company with trick mules and two Topsys, has struck the town, and we know the melancholy days have come. The statistician of the Detroit Free Press ging matches were held as often as prayer-meetings last winter. Prob- ably the most damage was done by the lat- ter, because they were conducted without gloves; but the statistician gives no figures as to that. Florence Marryatt didn’t make much money in her lecture tour in this country, and she has accordingly written a book in’ which she abuses us as if we were a nation of pickpockets. The lesson will be heeded. Let the dear girl come again and we shall be more than pleased to have her do the pocket-picking. It seems strange to have the newspapers speak respectfully of prominent citizens, and the very citizens at that who were believed by the newspapers to be horse-thieves all through the month of October. It shows that the re- deeming influences of the Thanksgiving sea- son have begun to put in their work, “Clara Belle” tells of a very old man who kissed two young girls and immed thick un se Marie has nd yet thi se and Jen it is possible 1 his dotage.