Judge, 1887-05-14 · page 4 of 16
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page from **Judge** (a 19th-century American satirical weekly) contains brief social commentary and jokes rather than single large political cartoons. The illustrations mock contemporary absurdities: one shows a man dangling from a gallows with the caption "Disinterested," satirizing executions; another depicts people in various comic predicaments. The text's "Hum of the Court" column ridicules minor news items and social trends: a woman who eloped by climbing a tree; a Milwaukee man with an unpronounceable name convicted of crime; the closing of "dives" (bars) causing hotel complaints; women in Kansas refusing to marry tobacco users. A recurring theme is **Prohibition and temperance reform**—mocking the anti-alcohol movement by noting that temperance advocates shouldn't complain about water when it once flooded the earth (the Flood reference), and that strawberries aren't as reliably "grain-sized" as currency. The humor is lightweight, targeting local news oddities, human foibles, and reform movements Judge considered ridiculous—typical of Victorian-era satirical magazine humor.
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HUM OF THE COURT. prising. Will somebody kindly give us a recitation of to-night”? The spring crocus is now in its prime ; and, speaking of botany, what kind of an ornitho- logical specimen is it 2 step to the front and Curfew shall not ring Oliver Troth of Chester, Pa., who forged notes to theextentof $6,000 and then ran awa plighted himself far too mucin. The eloping Chambersburg (Pa.) girl who climbed tree to escape her pursuers did it her lord to see, the same as Zacchous, It is a good point in the Norristown Herald that the value of a picture is judged by the wealth of the man who owns it. It is noticeable that since a member of the signal service got married, the other day, we have had variable weather of the worst kind. The trouble with Edgar Fawcett’s play which failed in Boston was that it didn’t include a few scenes for the exhibition of Messrs, Sullivan and Kelly. Walt Whitman nourishment fro same old failure. in England. er received It is the It ought to} been made The Lockport lady who ran away with her father-in- and hi rs old — evidently sion thatsie belonged to the entire family. “Let the human soul expand ! western paper in its spring artic upon its readers inquired with som * Is that sort of thin: claimed a where- curiosity, balloon 2” Aman in Milwaukee named Joseph Sky! ypezyuski found guilty know what hiscrime is, but there isenough m rial in the name to furnish the rope to hang him. It is true that experience is an admirable t got hold of the big boys would form ac pard, kin Theva What yer want av it ¥ ‘ful 0° that straw 1" Fanwnn ‘Trawr— easier ‘f1 hev an interferin’ strap on th’ other leg too.” I've got consid’ble ways ter travel an’ I reckon it'll be DISINTERESTED. ™ Young mon, shtond from oonder. If de rope breaks yeu cher ; but if it were palpable enough to be nd pitch it out of the school-house, Business is business, and we note with alarm the fact that since the closing of our dives the hotelsof this. ty are complaining of a large redue- tion in the arrivals from Philadel- phia and Kalamazoo, The last seen of a Batavia woman she was muc icated ; and re- taken from a local stre had Iai ja That's what comes of ta too much water with it. The Whitney baby is Dorothy, and the Don Cameron baby Martha. The Whitneys are young, and perhaps it would been more appropriate to call some nung women of Newton, have resolved to marry no young man who drinks or uses tobacco. Thescheme promises great results—at least that is the opinion of thé young women of the neigh- boring villages, A contemporary remarks that as the world is three-fourths water the temperance people ought to be satis- fied. And there, let usadd, was the exjorience of those people, some hundred years avo, who took their prohibition in the delug i vd never recovered from it. An unannounced blizzard out west malediction upon th ad of a local observer ; but he said is one of ( ilton’s kind and they always come unexpect- edly Th ndidates for office at a recent election in Stockton, Kansas, bei I women, the men refused to go to the polls ; the beauty of itis that the election got along just as well without them. The Philudelphia News says the strawberry and the Bland dollar are about the sine size Let us hope, how the strawberry has the requisite number of grains to give it the rightof cireulat A danci place his ung so that the popular present from ladies t men is gloves, and soe of the gentle a dozen pairs. is incensed at reporters y would be just impa- t enough to ask a dead man where he was going. The question might be rather ¢ ing, that's a fact. It is wonderful how many periodic which nobody ever hears hi i looking up to tl inclined to think th: has become a profession. One is half reation of affidavits The -ocialists of this coun try and take possession of the when they think there will be pr If the panic lessens the the cost of beer the rising may be counted « The fingers of time are said to be making marks on th eof M It is consoling to reflect that there isn’t: much room there for them to spread themselves ; and yet on acountenance of that thinness what large effect a little mutiiation has. Anderson Bishop Cosgrove of Davenport, Iowa, praises the old-fashioned girl at great length ; and as she never suid to her mother “I can’t—I don't want to,” according to the bishop, it may beas- sumed that she had an old-fashioned and a perfectly reasonable mother too. OF COURSE THEY DID. * How your eyesfiashed while you were taking to Miss DeVery, Jones!” 4 Joxzs—" Of course they did, my boy. I was sparkins comicbooks.com