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This page from *Judge* contains several short satirical items and two illustrated cartoons mocking contemporary figures and social issues. **Top cartoon** depicts a village cart conversation where the bumpy ride makes coherent speech impossible—satirizing rural life's discomforts. **Bottom cartoon**, titled "Progressive Christianity," shows a teacher instructing students that "Christ has Christianity done for the heathen" while a student responds "It has supplied them with missionary cutlets"—dark satire suggesting Christian missionaries harm rather than help indigenous peoples. The text items mock various targets: Henry Ward Beecher (prominent preacher, likely for his novel *Norwood*); women's lack of agency; politicians like Allen G. Thurman (referenced by his "bloody shirt" political tactic); and contemporary absurdities like life insurance and base-ball romance. References to "Bland dollar" and "Clarksburg" suggest 1880s-era monetary and regional humor now obscure to modern readers.

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4 HUM OF THE COURT. Archery is popular at New- port for the reason, we suppose, that it draws the beau. The silver in a Bland dollar to-day is worth about a million dollars an ounce, — Footsore actor. Trusting confidence of small after the fourth—t Wil! ma please buy little Jacky a new nose 7" Henry Ward Beecher left a most valuable library. For in- stance, it fails to. include his novel * Norwood.” Man was created first, but we must remember that woman was, given no opportunity to put in her truly able protest. When Solomon said the earth was never satisfied he knew what he was talking about. He was searching for another con: cubine. “To be truly happy told, “keep What rot! temper. It is those miserable other fellows. It is easy to talk. Whi Emerson said, “Hitch y wagon toastar,” he took deuced good pains not to bring down CONVERSATION UNDER THE DISADVANTAGE OF AN ORDINARY BADLY-BALANCED VILLAGE CART He—" Lis m'teck-it @c-c-c (cart goes over a stone) chuck-k-charming-g-« m-morm- perfect-t-t-tly ent-t-tranc (home shies a little) g-g-chk-Kk-r-r-r-ing-g." ought to have the life kicked out of him. _ Somebody says that a lange life insurance will make your widon popular. Thats certamly an in ducement if one can be around ave some fun with the popa Acontemporary says. “There is always room for a wise man.” Thank you, sir; that is ral cour. tesy. In the crowded condition of this assemblage we were be. ginning to feel uncomfortable. The Arkansas man who pe cently died after drinking thre quarts of whisky didn't have 4 fair show. If he had been per mitted his usual three gallons he would have come out all right Clarksburg is the only town in Massachusetts which has not a place of religious worship ; but it must be remembered that church property doesn’t nay large amount of interest just now. It is not yet proposed by the Democratic party to run Buck Taylor of Mr. Buffalo's company for president: but as he has broken his thigh and is petted therefor it is only a question of time. A young lady in’ Hartford is crying her eyes out because she the star. Yet it must be admitted that he thereby saved some lives. has been jilted by a base-ball pitcher. Hartford has always been in Honesty is more precious thi and sometimes you starve to ¢ nickel on the dollar, gold; but it has no market value, hh before it reaches the value of a the habit of having enterprise gi ly in advance of her ambition. In England, during the jubilee proceedings, Mr. Blaine was eyed askance as a dynamiter ; but he eyed the susp bus Britons back again When Allen G. Thurman heard that the bloody shirt was to be With such indignant surprise that no explosion occurred revived he flourished his red bandana and snorted his nose.in it with There peculiar satisfaction, “There are some women,” says an exchange, “who wouldn't be h ‘and let us add that if they were of @ dime. ey would be so mad they would happy with a mansion in heaven given the opportunity to yet it growl themselves to death. The gentleman who died at St. Helena was not an actor, strictly speaking ; but he was the master of many Bonapartes. New version — Better that one guilty man should escape than that twelve innocent men should be obliged to act as a jury for six long months, Egotism, tempered with discretion, is a good thing to have ; and we suppose we have more and a better arti- cle of discretion than any other living man. A newspaper para- graph tells of a lone woman who was fright- ened nearly to death a dead man ; and real it seems to us tha dead man guilty of t indiscretion of unex pected appearances S. S. Teactien—" What has Christianity done for the heathen |” 8.8. scuotan--" one thing in which our illustrious ot exceeding wisdom. They mia At Sheepshead ba ators showed Je-their first move without the slightest household furniture, and in consequence no truckman beat them out a most enthusiastic man shouted himself hoarse at the close of a race, and shook himself with extreme de- PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY. haa supplied them with missionary cutlets.”* light. Then, suddenly assuming i look of sol: emn inquiry, he inquired with much gravity, “Which horse won ?” It is alleged that near- ly al! the landlords on the Jersey coast are bald headed ; a most remark: able indication, we take it, of the evil results of the puritanism of New York, Still, the same cannot be said of the in side of their pocket books. An_ extremeiy polite man died very suddenly recently, and immediate ly upon his translation bowed obsequiously to St. Peter and ren with every of apology. pardon me, sir, for this unexpected appearance + ¢ soul T didn't do it myself, and T had no time to dispatch the usual cards.” comicbooks.com