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# Understanding This Page from Judge Magazine This page contains a collection of brief satirical commentary pieces typical of Judge's "Hum of the Court" section—short, caustic observations on contemporary American life and politics. **Key references include:** - **Jeff Davis and Beauregard quarreling over Shiloh**: A Civil War–era jab at Confederate leaders feuding over military strategy, suggesting their infighting helps Union victory. - **Nova Scotia wanting to join the US**: Satirizing Canada's potential annexation by joking it would be as simple as stealing something and crossing the border. - **Various social critiques**: Complaints about church bells, temperance reformers, women in police work, and Victorian marriage laws—all targets of Judge's satirical pen. The text mocks contemporary absurdities: a Chicago millionaire overpaying for a Bible (implying ignorance of books' actual rarity), architects designing cyclone-proof houses, and the observation that a "Democratic pope in New York" would be equally unlikely. **The cartoons** (an "oblique view" sketch and "Native and Foreign" illustration) appear to be character studies supporting these satirical observations, though specific identities are unclear from the image quality.

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AN OBLIQUE VIEW. allinixed up n N. Bo Miss Grailler is aMticted with a sliht squint HUM OF THE COURT, If you should bone a shad y shad. ou would find that there wasn't any The crying. clanging evil of the period is the chureh bell. be muzzled The way of the enough to buy an Let it amsgressor is hard, provided he hasn't money uittal Lansing. 3 What long . has a boy who can touch his ears with his feet ars that bow must have! been found inan Indiana graveyard, Thus part of us has passed on yraph in the Ph plphia Record that trees re ** barken pillars.” Is it anew kind of worm ¢ Some contributors send us jokes not been umpired pout base ball, just as if they bad atias much asia‘dozen’ years The Norristown Herald wants to see a picture of Columbus in the Century. Huh! at did he hav do with the last war ¢ girls to run vators has already increased the travel within large buildings toa surprising degree. It is a curions fact Dr. M Walker does not believe in women for police duty ; but it must be remembered that she has not been offered the position of first sergeant A reformer wants men to swallow 1 seems impossible, and yet there were the Ochiltree. St. Paul commences the season with hailstones thirteen inches in cireumf and looks contidently for pyramids of ice along about the iniddle of the season. without m ing it. It whopping lies of Thomas ding toa scientist, isd tellect. e had this same opinion ever sir ago. went off with tha eriorating in in years and years other man. bill before the legislatu ger boy toa disrept much etfeet The new marri kes it a misdemeanor to send ames about as cheek of thim furiners ts turrible. alongside av us Amerikins.’ vilege of becoming one and inseparsh Uncertainty of many who contract: marry tig icrepable damage to the divans ae ers. Jeff Davis and Beauregard having quarreled overShiloh perhaps we shall whip those rebels in that battle yet. Last winter there were 135 in Sullivan county. Now from ys of continuous sle ‘ou know where to stay away Those western parties who kill men for talking temper -e show more than anybody else possibly could the neces ity for temperance talk and temperance action A Chicago millionaire recently paid $1,000 fora Bible. Such ignorance as to the rarity of this book is lamentable We have assurances that there are several copies of it in Chi cago. Nova Scotia, according to several accounts, wants to over and join the United States. Well, it is easy Lat her steal something and come across the border betveees " iwo days It has not been demonstrated that the Iman eve has power to subdue an infuriated bull, but that is becaus: the bull cannot be induced to stand still long enough to feel effects of it. Out west they ure advertising for plans for houses that will stand cylones. Perhaps the better way would be to harmonize, soothe and ameliorate the cyclones. Is that im possible 7 Well, so is the other proposition in New ton his There wasa ruler who ed and familiar with the general public. aud fied him 3lynn wants to see a Democratic pope York, walking down Broadway with a stove-pipe 1 and an umbrella under his arm. was thus ass they eru nsis who voted against pro hibition, e says s eause her husband spent the seven eveninys of the week in attending temper ings. There is more than one kind of dissati: thought her dissatisfaction had yone far enough. ce meet action, and she London Society wants to se bread and butte her come with het has neitl sweet sixteen “with her slice of and her blushing littlesimper.” How sweet ! Aud let shoes off, her hair tangled, and the kind of talk that r moods, tenses nor the final g. Those editors who have sailed for Europe didn’t go altogether for if they had gone to Canada it would have been less ex nd just as effective, and they might have come to New York surreptitiously once in a while NATIVE AND FOREIGN OHOr LINAS Woe his neirepaper “Here's a Chiner haste wants to be a law The nixt thing they ‘Il want to be aldhermen and si comicbooks.com