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This page contains political commentary and social satire typical of late 19th-century American journalism. The top cartoon depicts a grotesque caricature (likely a political figure, though unclear who specifically) in a disheveled state. The text discusses various political and social issues including: Democratic apprehension about Mr. Blaine, Senate voting on taxation, Robert Browning's poetry criticism, and partisan office-holding disputes. There's commentary on a Maine rabbit incident and references to Secretary Bayard. The bottom illustration titled "HOME AGAIN" shows Mrs. Kimball-Green's dinner party reception—a social scene satirizing domestic life. The magazine's tone mixes political critique with humor about contemporary figures and events, though without dates or bylines, specific references remain difficult to identify with certainty.

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President ~ Vice President - Art Department ~~ - Editor ~~ -- TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. E ‘One copy, sx months, oF 2% numbers, ‘One copy, for 13 weeks, : Single coptes W cents each, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, POTTER BUILDING, Park Row, New York, EEMS PARADOXICAL, but the smaller the hat the bigger the head Protect HOME importation of th Wren Bismarck Has GoUT every French- man draws up his legs and swears. HOR by prohibiting the free Wuat 1F soMERopy should ring a chestnut bell on Riddleberge lity? THE SOLDIER OF THE FUTURE must not be pauperized through munificence to the soldier of the past. STOOD that Carl Schurz lays the aking of his thigh bone to the existing | Uministration NEW DRESS of a Democratic contempo- rary reminds us of the old truth that ‘ hand- some is as handsome doesn’t.” SOME.CIGAR-MAKERS denounce Reformer Gibbs as a dems crank, This is too severe. Mr. Gibbs is not a demagogue. Wues Bex. BuTLer dislocated his shoulder groan that heard IS A GREAT DEAL .| lift both heels and write po afterall. and that seems to be inspired b dent desire to say nothing of Mr. Cleveland. LaBoR QUESTION—Did D. B. Hill sup: press Abram S. Hewitt’s letter, and if he did will Mr. Hewitt be able tosuppress Mr. Hill? Frank Hattoy’s pa spec itself, ** The Mail is a bri A new wi haps of remarking that it has the requisite sand. Wiru Jony J. Incatts at the head of the senate the country felt as safe as if the lion were already suffering the severest stomach ache. “Now LET US CRACK the insect of the period, the editor of the Alhany Argus, critically examining his pocket-comb for Gro- ver's mugwumps. Tue Democracy, we are told by the New York Graphic, propose to be after. Merciful heav t what bloody caucuses this declaration prophesi THERE Was No WINE at the elegant luncheon given by the president's wife to the president's sister, We thought Miss Cleveland was unu- sually glum about something. AN EXTRA LARGE DEMAND for indigo in this country would seem to indicate some Demo- cratic apprehension not remotely connected with the ambition of Mr. Blaine. THE SENATE CAME pretty near to vetoing the president, and if it kad done that it would, under the circumstances, have vetoed itself, to say nothing of the patient taxpayers, no amount of goose nake him lift «heel, We thougl:t he was going to about it. A LabY writes a solid column article for the Rochester Union and signs it ‘A member of the unheard-from sisterhood.” So that these silent sufferers are occasionally heard from, IT WILL BE OFFI office-holder to labor for th ation of Grover, and if he is ren ated it will be partisanship for any office-holder to vote for him. RTISANSHIP in PROFANITY IS NOT CHARACTERISTIC of mil- mber one of them who, y diminutive stream, re- vith’ suppressed disgust, ‘It isn't A PROMIBITIONIST Is. NOT cheek-by-jowl with aliquorseller, He gives him encouragement merely in a surreptitious manner, and really the liquor-seller isabout as much ned of the combination as he is, Most MILLERS ARE thoroughly honest men— indeed, we never heard of one who ever dreamed of being an alderman; yet there is not one of them who doesn’t think it proper at any moment to get up and du THEY TELL OF A RABBIT in Maine that e here- couldn't get away because its feet were fruzen to the ice it stood on. The Democra: lis somewhat similarly situated, hasn't been a thaw since 1860. party nd there | WHEN THE EDITOR of the Evening Post lifts his voice he has already taken the pre caution to plug his ears, lest he suffer srom the consequent concussion to the same extent that he thinks the world does. N INTERESTING PAPER on. base ball, by a leading Boston ntist, will appear in a forth- coming number of the Atlantic, A sympo- sium will accompany it with respect to the question, ‘1s there such a thing asa curve?” “ONE ALMOST THINKS, Joseph Cook, speaking of Brother Beecher, ** he would have lived Jonger if he had died earlier.” One cer. tainly thinks, ‘in the case of Mr. Cook; that he would haye succeeded better if he hadn't lived at all. _ _ Some LEADING Democrats, Samuel J. Ran- \dall among them, voted to override the presi- dent's veto of the dependent pension bill. We judge from this and a few other indications that there is an irrepressible confli tirely new variety. A MAINE LADY REFUSED $2,000 for her hair, |which is eight feet and one inch Ionz. Its difficult to tell which was the more foolish the man who offered the money, the woman who refused it, or the liar who invented the ridiculous falsehood. MR. BAYARD TO RESIGN. A woman correspondent is said to have de- \clared a never-ending war on Secretary Bayard It was hard enough to be threatened by nada, Me and England. With this ad- dition there can remain no hope, and the resi nation of the unhappy gentleman m: looked for any da: SHE ACTED HASTILY. The other night the president was accidental- ly locked out of the white-house grounds, and the expressions he used were so shockingly ungrammatical that Dorman B. Eaton fell on of an en- HOME AGAIN, Mrs. Kensall-Green has invited a party of friends to meet her brother, Bob, train was late, who has been ranching im Colorado. Bob's and he arrived after dinner was served. Bop (to Butler}—‘* Look here, you swivel-eyed dago! where's the potaters an’ onions that £9 ith them oysters?” comicbooks.com