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# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains several satirical pieces. The main cartoon depicts "The Base-Ball Fever"—a speaker addressing a crowd, likely referencing Irish political agitation for freedom and jury trials. The satire criticizes both Irish resistance movements and English suppression. A secondary item mocks Secretary of State Bayard's reported plans to remarry shortly after burying his wife and daughter, calling the timing improper and the newspaper's quick announcement of the engagement tactless. The "Situation in Europe" section presents dialogue between a czar and an attendant about a nihilist's assassination attempt—reflecting 19th-century anxieties about Russian anarchism and political violence. The overall tone is characteristic of Judge's mix of domestic gossip, political commentary, and European affairs commentary typical of American satirical magazines during the Gilded Age.

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ape: a consistent, beautiful world it is, and how rapidly the buds and loses of the spring are lifting themselves to the gentle breezes thereof IT COL\TS. FOR FREEDOM. uglish ont is doing the best work for Trish freedon that has yet been dl To abolish tri by jury is to rite the ized world, and when an Trish or talked re- sistance to. that oppression he + was applauded not only by Mr. Gladstone but by public sentiment everywhere, A go nt that resorts to that kind of tyranny ntirely is too mer citizen t success, Mr adstone lives a Tittle Ion- ger he will go back to the place he left a few month: \ THE GENERAL STRAWBERRY. The buds are here. The blossoms are trying to unfold themsel vi The first robin has piped his little pipe. On the streets the man carri nat on his arm, meanwhile mopping his heated forehead with his disengaged hand. The woman from up north comes. tousina fur cloak and weeps bitterly as the dust settkes upon the ambling for Europe, and talk turns to the vancing cholera and nd there are apprehen- It is spring. It will be Rector (rth treme SPOnT-LovING Dv: 6)" Do you ask me to believe iy up mutdenty— Yes, he was, at From M of places along the border, southern towns of yellow fever. remembered that we predicted it, THE ENTERPRISE THAT IS TOO SOON. The repeated report that Mr. Bayard is about to be married sug- gests some things. The secretary only recently buried his wife and daughter, and may be supposed to be in no haste to assume unneces: sary festivi Possibly the lady in the case feeling too, It isn’t entirely proper, nterprising it may be, to announce as the result of an ac intance formed at the funeral of one’s wife or one’s husband. We have always admired the news- Paperman who habitually associated births with the announcements of marriages, and at the same time it somehow produced embarrass- ment that might better have been avoided. has som howe an engays WATCH IT! The Jence: begil its twelfth volume with this number, While there is a lamentable absence of the old faces and peculiarities that have given it inspiration during the years of its existence—and it is a consoling reflection that where our old friends now there is and satire flour. shes without its sting—there is a sufliciency of new men and new ideas and new absurdity to keep the peneil and the pen at work, at the same time that there is, year by year, a largely increasing appreciation of the work they do. just anaes totter Post, an’ that’s THE BASE-BALL FEVER. MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT. u doesn't have ter advertise hen you hay fetter, you bet.” 3 During the year and a quarter that the JupGe has been in its present hands it has jumped from a modest cireulition to one that is probably r than that other su journal in » world, while it has more pat rons than those of most of them pat together, This is) su enough to b with; but to that whieh is to come. We print for glory a THE SITEATION IN EDROP ‘What was inquired lly ing upale of his hair t 1 to cut away invisible shears. ‘ Merely a shot from stray nihilist, Was the reply of his attendant “Tt appears to getting to be been k ic Wale i even after this shameful treatment, Jacob was put ont elly never'd a reached second if "(and the organ playesl softly.) me,” said the czar, © that the unreconstructed enemy rather skillful, He'll disfigure m) hance next. The ezar twisted for himself rette and walked contem- platively along the terrac a palace, As he neared the turn there was an explosion some distance ttended with the loss of three buildings and the same number of lives. inquired the czar. “No, your majesty,” said the a another attempt upon your life. ly, this is becoming anne said the czar, blowing a cloud of smoke through his lips and resuming his walk. “There has come, sir putting his finger on a te “news of a terrible insurres sons were killed and Y and the soldiery have tried and ex / { ¢-/ said the attendant, after a few moments, raph dispatch held in the opposite hand, ion in Rattelebangski, in which fifty per any wounded. The town has been sucked + already been nized into a court-mart ecuted the remainder of the populace.” ‘* Wherefore? inquired the evar, “It's of no great. conse- quence plied the attendant. ** Merely an- other attempt on your m: “My suffering ntry ! exclaimed theezar, lifting his pwand. ‘ We must have war. It is the only method of safety. Tell my ministers to examine our accounts with the vari pting Ge If we people will destroy them: He to the sarcophagus.” cigarette and gloomily the darkness, THE EDITOR of the Detroit Free Press says he doesn't care a cent about the lap of sp Now perhaps that accounts for it. maiden feels so bad that whether she smiles or not. copper, ¥ :s girl’s heart with 5 Dus, % don't have war my selves from the er He twisted lost himself with The gentle she doesn't care Out with your the poor It Is TO BE NOTED that Brother Blaine moves around very quietly He makes If he were to fix his fences, Bro- axe muftled, and : post-hole wonld be invisible from centre to It se his. - about this time of the off years. but he moves. ms to be 'y of gals passin’ this ere comicbooks.com