Judge, 1887-08-06 · page 4 of 16
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This page contains four cartoon panels labeled "Science and Mischief," depicting a child conducting an experiment on his bald father's head—likely involving some chemical or mechanical mishap that ends badly for the dad. The humor relies on slapstick domesticity and the contrast between childish "scientific" curiosity and its destructive consequences. Below are various brief gossip items and satirical commentary typical of Judge's "Hum of the Court" section. These target contemporary figures and absurdities: S. Cobb's romanticized death, bureaucratic incompetence (the Albany capitol delays), poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox's mining profits, Mrs. Cleveland's youth and discretion, actress Mary Anderson's repeated rejections of suitors (Forbes Robertson and Henry Irving), and a nonsensical anecdote about retrieving a stolen horse. The satire mocks pretension, false wisdom, hypocrisy, and the odd logic of modern life through deadpan commentary.
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SCIEN CE AND MISCHIEF. Little Charley's scientific experiment upon his poor old dad's hald head meets with asad end. HUM OF THE COURT. 8. Cobb having died, some of his most remarkable romances will now begin The old Ik that there is no hydrophobia is very consoling ; but all the ss the man dies of the bite It will be well hereafter to Lave our hot weather in winter, when ion necessary to enjoy it. march was the one the government gave » the rural d in this city had a talkii acl but soon, too soon, she grew jealous of its ability and took poison and died. The June death. Henry i The hop crop is said to be unusually good, and that means pros- perity so eminently excellent that you can't keep yourself within your vest. doubts very much the report of Henry M. Stanley's ot in that kind of business, and he never has been. No Boston boy was ever known to call his father ‘ Dad nd that is the all-suflicient and very appropriate reason that the boy invariably lives. An Albany paper says there is a building boom in the old Dutes city. Hah! So the * new” capitol is to be completed some day after all, is it? Nobody who habitually lies can get along well in this worla— though, to be sure, there are little white lies that are the y essence of charity and virtue. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who has cleared $12,300 in a mining specu- lation, finds in that experience the finest poem she ever wrote in her life ; and if she might circulate it how many happy hearts the inspi ration would create. To the president—When you want to write a letter, my boy, you had better get Dan to go to the gentleman and give him the informa tion by word of mouth. Mrs. Cleveland, who was twenty-three years old the other day, is really wise enough to have accomplished that discretion years azo ; but her parents were dil: me to be the custom in Boston to calla man rolonel.” It does not follow that he ever but then he was never a colonel. * judge” judge, The Buffalo Express quotes approvingly the Baconian aphorism that ‘Reading (Pa.) maketh the full man,” but in reality admits that in Buffalo the thing is done by beer. The Philadelphia News presents the information that hot waves have no delicacy of feeling. We have long felt that reform in this particular was highly necessary. It is again reported that Mary Anderson will not marry Forbes Robertson, and we beg here to repeat the fact that she has likewise given a final refusal to Henry Irving. The young lady who rescued from the surf a young woman who was going to drown did well, but the young woman as soon as she learned the sex of her life-preserver died just the same. A man had a white horse stolen. He hired a red-headed girl to ac- company him on a voyage of discovery, and the white horse velin- ame to him before the two had got out of town, comicbooks.com