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This page contains several disconnected satirical jabs at 1880s-90s public figures and social trends: **"Hum of the Court"** section mocks various celebrities: Senator Ingalls's apologies, John Roach's inability to buy respectability despite wealth, and a Sioux City man finding unexpected hair growth. **The cartoons** appear to lampoon contemporary figures—one shows a "narrow escape" dialogue about a doctor and patient, another depicts a dinner scene at "The Caterers' Club." **Social commentary** targets: Ward McAllister's claims about New York's "400" fashionable people (a real Gilded Age controversy), discussions of J.L. Sullivan fighting an antelope, and Margaret Mather's romance drama. **The overall tone** is typical Judge satire—gossipy, irreverent attacks on wealthy pretenders, celebrities, and social climbers. Without clearer OCR or date confirmation, specific identifications remain uncertain, but the page exemplifies how Judge mixed illustrated humor with society-page mockery.

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20 HUM OF THE COURT. Wh: to apologi s to do is for his se’ Lawyer Marsh may peculiar truth to be a member of Debar, What will John Ro Mele n't buy the New Yor is afflicted with y was wicked- tit cured, and it w: . y the por fellow find it easier to do it over there. after the Dr. Hammond's idea that men need i ing; but men are on the privilege f tine, Wh adde mind 3 » Richard ILL call renthetically, This is busi- ed for a horse “Not am ness and Emust have s} A bald-headed Sioux City man is much to his surprise, a tuft of ir about the circumference of a nid feels so bad about it tha wants to be sealped. as (to family doete rn years old.” pr really lost but the question doesn't the icky for me? Nothing is e : Da.—" Ahem, no, not exactly, it Whitn ix ever present, who found it return it to its original owner and get the reward offered in the daily newspapers? The World says E. wound up to conversation at least, C. Stanton and S$. B. oon forever: so there i: Anthony have been is your perpetual motion as to. If Jay Gould is a skunklet as well as a pirate ki says. he isthe kind of remarkable have long deen looking for, as the Herald dime museums The empress and crown princess of Ge of the Hohenzollerns hereafter, with th and if Prince urck doesn't like it he can go ou Mr. Ward MeAllister fashionable persons shows ches and strike his own. that New York has only 400 really amount of discretion to the total disruption of his mathematics. There are 412, with a few fractions that will presently make the number yesuyit It will give ever us to th ly to be issued will be a fine account There is to be a new daily evening papel the latest reports regarding matters just pre special feature ina number s wth of get the ‘A NARROW ESCAPE. ‘That was taken, doctor, when 1 was about Qvith an eye ts business —" Ab, Mrs, Phluff, it’s very lucky I did (slattered)—" Ab doctor, Fm afraid you are a flatterer. Do you Lucky JUDGE of Mr. Pharaoh's unsuccessful effort to cross the Red sea, Oratory is making progress They even tell of a silver-throated Georgia mule. We must not forget w! Buffalo that Mr. Howells pride on his fiction There is talk of having J. L. Sullivan fight an antelope, and the anitnal, get ting ready to run, says it is anxious for the encounter. All the dead or dy instanee, is sufficiently well to be hard at work on another book, Miss M we praise himself ading Democrats are not vho is worth Years old, n edgellent e » possibili ties of youth here in New York Aspirit artist has presented throngh at his last jok the poor sufliciently Ah, well; we suppose ull will presently develop © start a comic newspaper, We suppose that when Jol dies he will go right up to pull his whiskers, turn him 3 look at something that can’t be walk into paradise with the unce assurance of one who owns the whole establishment, Though a light, frivolous, dizzy girl, 3. B. Anthony presid nd impressiveness k to the audiences and take out her teeth istsat Washington with m| ally she had to turn her bay t occasion: id $60,000 to con: because it wears nger who has bought a duke and e the purcha pleased with her pri side-whiskers and can talk like a real m Margaret Mat is very much out with J. M. Hill, and therefore we wouldn't be that man for anything; but at the same time J. M. is the Hills that the general public is glad to be heir to. atesmanship of the woman's congress—"* How do you like my Admirable. do you think of Mrs. Thompson's * Made over; and isn’t she a bold, forward, brazen thing?” new dress?” bonnet?” one of Chaunes denials increases the desire to hi : so that if he ts to save himself that o1 had better say he wants it. But then he would say that with such great good sense that perhaps the peril would be increased The Rev. Mr. Pogson says that “ marriage should never be thought of until the question is put.” If that rule prevails, good man, there will never be any question i We have sometimes tht it a good iden to dress 7 AT THE CATERERS’ CLUB DINNER, (seetio You'll ‘xcuse ine, Mistah Breck'ridge—da's my grape joer” al view.) Me. Parusix— comicbooks.com