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# "A Matter of History" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon depicts two men in conversation—one appears to be explaining something to the other while gesturing. The caption reads: "A MATTER OF HISTORY" with dialogue about biblical genealogy and race. The text references debates about Ham's descendants being "white" versus other races, quoting: "Well or um, he ain't done remember, but I er 'spect it must hav been some time when he had 'er speak of dar ages." This satirizes 19th-century pseudoscientific attempts to use biblical ancestry to justify racial hierarchies and slavery. The cartoon mocks the absurdity of such "historical" arguments by presenting the explanation as confused and unconvincing—the speaker clearly cannot coherently defend the racist pseudoscience being questioned.

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Siape: PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President W. J. Ace Vier: President Haney i. Hauer Art Department Renwnann O1LLam Faitor M. Garoony FOREIG SCRIPTIONS—To alll foreign THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (PoTTER BUILDING), Park How, New York. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED ATATEA AND CANADA, I ADVANCE. One eupy BR™ We guarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any Amer: fean matirieal paper published, Artist Gay, who wins a $2,000 prize, has a right to be not only that but exceedingly fes' w makes of men! and then they will be ruined fore THE PEOPLE OF PARIS got so angry over a their city that they shrieked at the performers a marek from afar off. ger production in nd fanned the air at Bis LitTLe PATTI HAS PAREW! ‘D four times in this city « * and 1s now considering preparations for her retu : in order to do it some more. THERE IS A SCARCITY of prunes; but as long as there is a plenty of brown paper and brown sugar the omission will be better than the original article. BISMARCK ON HIS LAST BIRTHDAY rec brewer in Germany comfortable for three da ived a barrel of beer from He must have had e h to keep him WoMEN’s TEMPERS, according to a contemporary, are apt to be try- ing when the mercury is high. Yes, by Jove! and we have noticed the same peculia the mercury was low SclENCE SHOWS, wate Tf that is the we shall have a gi says somebody, ase th Republi : FF GRANT I8 80 think he was born to th a brief matter of court “that a man is 90 per cent re must have been such reformation that ory this fall gman that we begin to Smith might return as self. LAND,” says Henry Watterson, ** because It is faint, delicate praise like this that takes fast hold of the shrinking but appreciative heart business sy he would say so hii “ We must ELECT CLE re responsible for him.” ST EARTHQUAKE SHOCK in Texas brought out the old excla- “ Ha those infernal Mexicans again"; but, as usual, nobody s hurt outside of those who got intoxicated about it Harmony, who is acting secretary of the ni Whitney, is just the man for the posit peace, but we ought to have those cruisers just the same. \ ForRake banquet as well as a r, it may be in Broth wn hasn't fences with his usual care, having t the Lincoln gined that fixed his n the honors at the Pittsburg Smton Bottvar BucKNER will un- doubtedly be the next: governor of Kentucky, and the Democracy of the blue ud not have select- ed a worthier representative. He had the honor of being licked by Grant ASS state ¢ You must NEVER MIX your music with your beer, Again, you must \ mix your beer with your mu- You must take both straight. sbody knows exactly why ; but this is the order t es from Albany. THE MOST DISTURBED man in Mich- igan is a prohibitionist to whom the local saloons refuse to sell the slight- est amount of liquid consolation ; but we suppose he could getalong with the supply in the cel sit not for the fear of bemg caught at it by the hired girl. Fier Boxts—" SAYS BISMARCK. it must hab been durin’ de time when de hist'ry speaks ob de dark ages.” speaking of the French army, “we will bleed them white” means the taking of left ‘to tell.” And t most yearn for. That v drop of blood, so that there will not be at is apparently what the apor visit to Washington because non called on he of the ladic ; but she must remember the ¢ mit no man to forget the living, whatever m dead of the administe neies which will per. have become of the BY A CHEESE-PRESS REPRESENTATIVE, You must never mix your music with your beer. “Tis the modern sage t th. All the older wisdom leaketh. Mix your whiskies and your wines, Your theologies, your lines, Your sociologies. biologies, logies, psychologies, bur d your theories, our higher drinks, your beei But never muse your mixture with y You must never mixture lager with the band. Hide the music in the attic ; It’s imme Mix your words and freely drink, Fuse ideas as you.think, Pass the bow! from eve till late— That can ne'er intoxicate But muse no fusic with the eterious band. You must never beer your music with the mix. It is tolerable and good That a legislator should Law against the harmon: “‘Twixt the drinks and melody. He must take his separate— Then they ne'er intox' You must ne muse your beering with the mix, GREAT TIMES, GREAT TIMES! Jetf Davis is fighting Beauregard and Wolseley, and Murat Halstead chips in with his awful batt! against all three. The only casualty thus far is the accidental clipping off of his own ear by the infuriated editor, but the bulletins from the arious seats of war are ominous. SMITH, WHO WAS HL the other day, enjoyed many the night preceding the execution, and a reporte them was incense on which to earry the pri to heavy We suppose that’s poetr: the smokers were made in Connecticut: THE CONNUBIAL PUZZLE. Mrs. Anthony wants 250,000 of Miss Ballou for alienating her hus band’s affections, and incidentally states in her complaint that the husband once made her walk four and a half miles and back again, in a rain-storm, to get him a picture of Miss Ballou which she had in a fit of jealousy removed from its tomed place. We should think Mrs. Anthony would be willing to give 250,000 to the woman who alienat affections of that kind. She should at least read Thomas Hardy's novel, wherein a woman treated by her husband assum fection for a less attractive person of the male species, and so brings the wanderer back to her feet. as abject a lover as he was before the two were married. Though, to be sure, that kind of man is handly worth the winning twice, and his allegiance is a pretty cheap article even the first time. gars on the smoke from rs of the attending priest and perhaps not the less so if LAST WEEK A WOMAN was made mayor of a Kansas city, another woman was made clerk of a pol court in New Hampshire, and an other was made pilot of a I mplain steamboat. It won't long, with the progress under way. before the forward creatures will culled pussens war an’ he war a white comicbooks.com