Judge — January 22, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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vhuages PALMISTRY IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT. Cuxcny (appearing in doorway “D Phat th’ div’ —— * moind th’ kindness of Misther Keefe, John? Shure it’s readin’ me band he is, It’s all th’ shtoyle.” Judge’s Charge. JAMES MUST BE MORE FIRM, The next time Jimmy Husted says he won't) take an office he must say it with a club. The way the public impose upon the good-hearted- ness of that man isenough toappal the stoutest | heart. REFORM IS NECESSARY. It is a good thing about toboganning that if you fall off you don’t fall far; but there will be no perfection in the amusement till the rid- ing is done up hill as well as down, The court has studied these exercises a long time. He he IT CAN'T BE DONE. The Rochester Post-Express wants Mr. Dana | proportions. tocorrect his impressions. Let us not expect impossibilities. Mr. Dana is pretty young for a man of his years and he mean to be fair as well as merciless ; but you might as well try to correct the impressions of an Egyptian obelisk. HENRY GEORGE'S LEGACY. Not many men are going to decline a legacy of 36,000 because it leaves the woman who| ought to have it poor. It ought to bea libel on men to say it, but it is true. But it must not be inferred that Henry George is entitled to praise for doing so. Not at all. He did no more than pther gentleman put in his place would have done. WHAT CAN WOMAN D007 Perhaps the experience of Mrs. Halliman of Sand Lake, Rensselaer county, was the quecr- est. Her grandfather had remarked that she} couldn't drive a pig out of the front yard. The wager was not large, the old gentleman being in straightened circumstances. It was a new calico dress against a brier-wood pipe. The aged man prudently went out of the back door to view the exercises ; and in half a minute a two-edged stone flew at him and removed with the skill of a surgeon a large wen of forty years’ standing on the very apex of his benevo- lent head. She had thrown it at the pig. Well,” said the octogenarian, “‘I give it up” |=meaning the wen apparently. “The dress |shall be of moire antique.” “Tt ought to be asealskin sacque!” weeping bitterly. "shecried, broken my arm in ree places and I feel it in the broken bones | that there's a corpee in the next county.” oR THIRTY DAYS. g formidable Thomas Johnson of Springfield, ate thirty of the birds thirt, ind called for and finished two more, and now a western young lady offers to eat two quails a day for thirtv days if she can get $3,000 for it. Perhaps it will be better to drop on quails and substitute—let us say something of a liquid nature. How would it be to bet some- body that he can’t drink a glass of—let us s whisky—every day for thirty days ? The quail business is assumi Ul Judge and the Play, The best theatrical news is @ that that Anna Dickinson will resume the platform. Alice Oates goes before the consumptive Titus. No lon- ger seek her merits to dis- close. Frederick Warde as a robust, full-chested gladiator rather takes the belt and neversmites below it. Mrs. Victoria Schi likely to become an ace: plished actress after all. about to get a divorce. 1. For instance, she is “There is something wrong about Joshua ” says Aunt Matilda of Farmer Whit- “he whistles too - As between the two Fortescues, the colossal Georgeand the petite May, one is inclined, when he sees her dance, to prefer Margaret Mather. Miss Mitford in 1825 wrote the play in 1886 Lawrence Barrett, as Rienzi, ing his best reputatie and the new man 1 nb which is mak- n. Thus do the aged hour The ballet in the first representation of “Merlin ” were so shockingly undressed thata tremendously large audience attended on the second night to sympathize with them. In connection with the revival of ** Ev: line” one of the papers gives a picture of Venie Clancy, the prettiest of the many_young ladies who have made reputation inthe title role. | Poor girl ! she, and her youngersister as well, have been in their graves many months, Lotta suffers with the statesmen. They say that her kicking is stopped half way now, is | followed by a sudden drawing up of the pro- | jected limb as if there were pain there, and is attended with a scowl indicative of mingled as- _|tonishment and disgust. Chance is too small a thing to control any FIVE MINUTES LATER. Curcry— Faith, av it’s all the shtoy Je perhaps he kin rade me fut as well.”