Judge — November 5, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Iverident Vice-President Art Department Paitor 1M. Onxoony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. USTED sTATEX ASD CANADA, One copy z One copy for i week ee i Om eile copies WW centa each FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all foreign eountries tn the pratal union, $a year THE JUDGE PUBLISHING CompaNy (PoTTeR BUILDING), Park How, New York, FP We guarantee aulverticers a larger cireulation at cheaper rates than any Amer: fean mativical paper published WHEN A MAN goes fast in Texas they say he splits the wind. The maker of the next dictionary will do well to tie that up for use. Tus is a free country indeed. Why! the recent experiment of Miss Bly even shows that a sine man can get into a lunatic asylum PorM in praise of young Haskell, who insulted Mrs. Cleveland, is impossible, because there is only one word that will properly rhyme with him, Notuina MAKES Joseph Pulitzer so mad as to be baulked in his local political enterprises, and when we consider that he has been here three or four yt pretty good reason for i Frank Hatton is still start- ing newspapers, and, oddly enough, some of the old ones still live. Ac PORARY says. the liquor men are seeking pledges, and so the good work of temper: ance goes on, Bear IN MIND that if Fred ant is elected this year the lof the Democratic Richmond will follow in 1888, AT Last accou there were only nine hundred succes- sors to Mr. Beecher, but the canvass had been only half com- pleted, Lorp GarMoy.e, having fal- len heir to an additional five millions, is ready to enga self to two or three more pretty: girls, with the regular financial penalty, — his body fhrough too.” Ir is Nor true that Jay Gould has a corn on the celestial mansions, but we must remember that he has been busy with other matters. Henry Grora rets that Governor Hili didn’t accept his challenge and that Mr. Shev- itch did. It is quite natural. Let us Hope that Mr. Train will not come home by way of China, because—dreadful thought!—those orientals might catch him and keep him there SomE sociatists of London recently took possession of Westminster abbey and spit lib- <illy on the floor and the statuary. Revenge is sweet ‘THERE OVGHT to be a special eyclopedia fo rry election in New York city, but we suppose if anybody used it he would be accused of stealing his information Mr. BLaIne the cable to commend Fred Grant, and ri ajority of the people te will use the ballot-box to indorse ion LISH SPARROW is a nuisance, but speaker in order to rebuke MeGlynn for talking polities. two gentlem Fred Grant does not liv by misrepresenting him. Mr. Watterson will keep on with this gen- tlemanly treatment of the opposition until he is kicked so far out of the Democratic party that he will never be able to get back small word, with a great deal of fores ‘AN EXPLODED THEORY. “ Lallus heerd dat wherever a coon coukl get his head fhrough he could getde rest ob dead. The gentle y must be some mistake somers.” we mustn't expect him to be generally killed until he raises the plum- age necessary to the prevailing bonnet. Bishop McQuat of Rochester is tlking polities like a stump- Should the come together how th io political fur would fly! BEWARE, HEN Henry Watterson says a manlier or more modest gentleman than nd that the Democrats will make no capital Mr. Ds 1d may not support Mr. Cleveland in 1888; but he probably won't, because if Mr. Cleveland thinks he will id will of course refuse to run. the statement that Bartley Campbell 1s recovering is »: but it looks like the introduction to a new play bearing his name and written by somebody else. SHALL WE ABOLISH “HELL” ? A Troy clergyman wants to abolish the word “hell.” It is a , and it is not necessarily ror vulgar, rtheless its s and the general anner of its use are intensely disagreeable, and any other word that would give th meaning to some extent would be better. We confess, however, to an affection for the word, as an expletive in denunciation of the error of the period and as a term that has more in meaning than any oth word of its size. Where else could we tell a mean man to go with the same economy of ex- pression, and to what other realm could the Democratic party and the mugwumps be so appropriately sent # Mr. Woe Cuts Foo in his nt vocal contest with Denis y got in the most words, but the adjectives of Denis were so much more powerful that they speedily knocked him out. Nuva Van Zanpt appears in the pictorial dailies only about three times a week now, but we cannot discover that she changes. in looks with sufficient rapidity to warrant even that displ Vice ApMiraL JaAUREGUIT- BERRY of the French army is n ought to have 1 by sections. To take him entirely off at one time is about as disastrous as a French fight with Chinamen. MUCH PROMISE—NO PERFORMANCE, A cartoon needs no comment. If the story ch and color does not carry its own ‘a preacher and its moral is lost. re, however. shadowy forms that the nnot catch; remembrances of sugges. tion rather than shape; those in the back- ground, not those close to the footlights, that the pen rather than the pencil needs to bring out. Next to that impotence that does nothing is that more than contemptible characteristic of affluence of promise and sterility of perform- ance—a varioloid form of political misrepre- sentation, very gious to those whose s; tems, from habit or inclination, are ready absorbents of the disease. Is not the Demo- cratic party bankrupt ?- Were not its promises, like those of the old wildcat bi uttered only with renons intent. and issued to deceive? When some credulous mugwump holder of a certificate of deposit asks for re- demption of his civil-service scrip, Higgins or comicbooks.com