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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical commentary items rather than a single cartoon. The main illustrated piece, "Our Country Friend's Hind Sight," shows a rural figure in period dress looking backward—likely satirizing someone's retrospective political judgment or failed predictions. The text sections mock various contemporary figures and issues: a woman contemplating relocation to Chicago for divorce, skepticism about female suffrage in Maine, criticism of Anthony Comstock's moralism, and ridicule of various political and social pretensions among the wealthy. One item references Buffalo's new crematory, treating it as darkly comic. Another mocks Senator Arkell's confirmation failure. The overall tone targets hypocrisy, failed ambitions, and social absurdities among both political and society figures of the era, though specific identities and events are not immediately clear from this excerpt alone.

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PUBLISHED | ONCE A WEEK. W, J. Auer. Hany R. Hane | ano OMLLAM President - Vice-President Art Department Patitor TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA. One copy, one One cop: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, POTTER BUIL Park Row, New York, Now THAT WE hav may look with confidence fora Morning Moon. It ts TRU but-of course children. that the queen attended she went solely in behalf of the A ays that when one is eaught tel he should keep cool. It is oA. burning b a great truth, Is 17 NoT Opp tha t Colonel Ingersoll should be so skeptical regarding sheol and the y of Butfalo before his very eyes? IT WAS RE had a new ere: ‘TLY announced that Buffalo tory. We now learn that it has been in possession of several of them, WE FEEL AUTHORIZED to announce that the lady of this y who whistles for n be hired to stop it for twice the money. If 18 NOT REMARKABLE that the queen does not like gentlemen at her receptions. They are too modest and retiring—they do not dress that way. THERE Was NO DEAL nator Ark pretty lange his confirmation. in the nomination of There scems to have been a the failure to bring about IN MAKING “SMILE” rhyme with “ boil” the quis of Lorne strongly expresses the situa- attending the excre: e, and it seems to us that that’s poetry. It May occur to the czar that if he will trust the people they will trust him; but we suppose he will postpone his part of the improvement till after the funeral, It PAINS Us TO SEE the Philadelphia News insist that measles be mentioned in the sii ilar number without the slightest reflec- tion regarding the number of them. THE PRESIDENT is twenty-four hours behind | St. Patrick in theanni perhaps that is rsary ef his birth, and » reason why he, unlike the 1.3. Ontoony | an Evening Sun, we| saint, finds it impossible to turn the so-called rascals out. PATTI 8aY8 SHE loves Chicago and the peo- ple of that place are very dear to her; so we suppose she is contemplating a residence there, in the usual way, for the purpose of getting another divore Proressor J. L. SULLIvA ing written astory, Messrs. Emerson and Longfellow ag rather glad they are dead, and T, B. Aldrich and Henry vanes have fled with a shfiek to another continent. Sam Cox’s PHYSICIAN suggested a warmer climate. ‘‘ Huh!” said the little man, **T ha just been congratulating myself on having escaped on It will be remembered that Mr. Cox is a Democrat. Senator Hoar says he thinks the devil is a |Democrat. That is most unjust, though it | must be admitted that there is something in the proposition that a man is known by the company he keeps. Ir May BE SUSPECTED that the lady of the name of Potter who hes a literary bureau pro- poses to run for preside It takes talent to act, but anybody with a sufficiency of money can run for president. “THE FUTURE of the daily paper,” Times, ‘is one of almost unbounded pessibilities.” We have often thought of that. And yet that is the future of anything you y happen to menti says the Tue REPORT THAT Anna Dickinson would resume the lecture platform is energetically denied. We said that would be the soon as the lady saw the report in print. It ought to have been suppressed. IT 18 WRONG“TO 8aY that Anthony Comstock is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Anth some spavins on his hind legs, so that are not effective; but he has a hoarse, heavy, ponderous voice, and he is bigger than three “Last April I com + down to ther city, an’ those Jere little city rascals pinned all sorts of things on | me back, but you bet yer boots I'll keep my eyes on the tals of my coat this season.” case just | s|The Rochester Democrat wolves and the same amount of shi together. THE FOLLY OF JUMPING to conclusic demonstrated in the statement that can easily carry $40,000,000 in 810,000) |, We have frequently tried it and could never manage to get along with more than 835, 11,000, THE LOVE OF MAN for luxury on the part of women is as pronounced as it is unseltisi, A. young lady n Detroit who fell heir to £250,000 offers of marriage in thirty days, pplicants wanted to be around to see her STON 18 SO SHOCKED by the full dress demanded by Victoria that she scarcely contain herself and as for the |: at court t ing without th another button. ies never expect to do any contain- addition of a piece of tape and THE DEFEAT OF WOMAN: SUFFRAGE in Maine isa natural result of the prohibition law that there prevails, Women need never expect tc get their rights ina state given to ¢ intemperance, particularly if the indu happen to be of the sneak-thief kind. THE LADY MEMBERS of ourschool-boand chew tooth-picks after dinner with all the enjoyment of their male contempors and yet they pect to teach the advisability of good manners to the rising generation. Still, it must be ad- mitted that they smoke good cigars and rarely put their feet on the table. 8, IN ALL TRIALS for criminal action in this city the drawing for jurors commences with the directory of 1860 and runs along with ra pidity to the one which is expected in 18: but it is evident that until we add to our pop- ulation by the annexation of New Jersey this must be lamentably inadequate. PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES, and the press of the same town are quarreling g and their plagiarism and similar vagaries; yet we notice in both a number of advertisements that are copied from the JubGE word for word and line for line, Post to DURING THE BATTLE of Gettysburg G: W. Tompkins gathered and ate harvest apples from an orchard ten miles away with a skill, daring, and hardihood never before approached and yet he has no special pension. He will, however, contribute an article to an impend- ing Century and get fifty dollars for it. AN EDITOR RECENTLY made postmaster gives lhis retiring predecessor a send-off half a col- umn long. It is very touching and tolerably just; but we observe that the writer does not call frantically upon the distinguished geutle- man to come back across the stormy water. If he had done that his article would be one of the most pathetic we ever read. Brovarr Tomas G. SHEAKMAN writes of the late Plymouth pastor wi ith tears in both eyes and the Joves river convenient at hand to draw from; vnt if there is a better artic emotion, the seme guided and subdued |) justice and good suse, it has not yet sprunz its depth of feeling so as to make it conspicu ous among the surface indications. Tue Rev. perhaps the most eligible of the | mentioned as Beecher’s successor. . MyRON ADAMS of Rochester is Jengymen red comicbooks.com