Judge, 1886-11-20 · page 5 of 16
Judge — November 20, 1886 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains several short jokes and commentary typical of late 19th-century American humor. **"The Right Rod"** depicts a dialogue between two Irish characters (suggested by dialect spelling "Oi" for "I"). The joke plays on the word "rod"—a fishing rod versus a "rod" as punishment—with the implication that proper parenting requires physical discipline. **"Rum of the Court"** is a gossip column featuring brief, acerbic observations about public figures. References include H. George (likely Henry George, the economist), William Henry Patterson (unclear), and various theatrical performers like Rosina Vokes and Gerster. The humor relies on contemporary knowledge of these minor celebrities and political figures. **"The Only People Who Carry Canes"** is a cartoon captioned "The feeble in body and the feeble in mind," depicting two elderly men with canes—satirizing cane-carrying as a sign of physical or mental weakness. The page exemplifies *Judge*'s style: topical, sometimes mean-spirited humor targeting recognizable public figures and social pretensions of the era.
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THE RIGHT ROD. thin, Dinnis, T hear y Sox— Well, Oi didn’t catch noth Dawe (serene, but decided)—* That's because © rod, Oi suppose. Yez'll catch somethin™ holdin’, yez kin bet!" (And he does.) . if Oi did. THE DIFFERENCE. “What is the difference,” he * Between a hangman pounding rope And that policoman with his head Reclining o1, « box of soap?” aid, Then, ere his victim turned aside To ‘scape the joke by quick retreat, he cried ; KRYS. it of the Court. The coming million ires—The men who run| drag-storesin proh ition states. We look upon H, George as the man who struck William Henry Patterson. The president is not the man without a coun- try, but he is certainly the one without a state. The trouble with that bright little woman, ! Rosina Vokes, is that her ‘art is not true to her profession. The Detroit Journal has the heading “ The Governor-elect Luc Very well; where > the police? Rhode Island has 11,000 more females than males. That is a great state. The women of it cannot afford to wear snub noses. They tried to make out that Gerster was in- sane, too; whereas she was never an alderma in the whole course of her existence. The Canada woman who proposes a society | for the prevention of kissing is obviously med- dling with something that doesn’t concern her. When Bob Ingersoll speaks of his benign| tumor he probably: ni ay that it as small—one of the se gn kind, you kn A woman of the salvation army says the] power to sin has been taken uway from her. | Aca pz haz he ez inated a mugwump named Bacon for con- | 5 | Possibly she may be|about five minutes before the arrival there of | happy, but it’s very ours. deabtta)s Some couples in Mexico I The Philadel phia| fifty children. No wonder Mexico has News says the shade of lution every three weeks, We should thin! Andrew * Jackson is there would be family revolutions every: five armed with a club, It} minutes. must be one of those! Ladies have taken to wi weapons that stuffed with wind. Aiage: uring gloves at night, are The purpose is to keep the hands white, and |not, as might be inferred, to knock out the Clara Belle says Miss husti nd who objects to the conventional Fortescue can't act Mightly lecture, for sour apples.” Now, John Hay says he wept when he heard we think she can, and Charlotte Cushman recite “Jim Bludsoe, Lesides she is pretty John ought to have wept when he contempl enough for an entire ted the verse nd then made asolemn resolve orchard of grafted fruit. not to write them. Ithas been discovered! Twenty widows own twenty that aon who has farms in Greene county, Ohi been struck by light- to that locality it might be advisable for mar- ning can’t swim, Of riageable gentlemen to inquire cautiously course not. By the time | what their husbands died of. the funeral here , is no place to swim in. 5... adjoining Before going ry Anderson advises young women to nothing to do with y irsons says tley have a bad effect on the nerves. ed she said “nerves.” ‘There was som: flag all over New Eng. Sion lest she should say morals. nd. Though Paul) King Otto of Bavaria has not long to live, might plantan Apollos) and as Bavaria must have an insane king or ater, dear Parsons,' no king at all ther a proposition to hire the red flag wouldn't) John Sullivan to come over and knock one of grow in that soil. | the heirs to the throne extremely silly. sas Glad pprehen- Lucy ei fidhii to-day initead she will plant the red n't hav the roight! now wid the rod Oim Tue nost porcian kind of liar is the liar | Observer says Whittier and Ella who says he is tickled over his own or his havo two souls with but a single party's defeat, and for some days back he |thought. If this isa union in behalf of poetic has exhibited happiness regardless of expense, | development we be to suggest two thoushts— = whieh isn’t a bit too many—with but a single The Deme ts of the Monroe district nomi- | sole. an anti-horse-thief association, re Texans who look upon it as oppo- to one of the legitimate professions. . if those gentlemen can’t steal horses nat least shoot the strangers within ame by purchasing it their gates, that is the reason thi —that is to gress, and perl failed to save thei aps The empress of Japan is to have a diamond Howe necklace worth $1,000,000, her agent in Berlin they having secured the THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CARRY CANES. comicbooks.com