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This page contains brief political commentary satirizing 1880s American politics and society. Key targets include: **Political figures**: References to Colonel Ingersoll (plagiarism accusation), Henry Stanley (explorer repeatedly lost/found), Judge Gresham, and Belva Lockwood—a women's rights advocate running for president, mocked for her divorce and remarriage. **Social commentary**: "Argonia's" female mayor (Kansas town) wrecked by cyclone; Henry George's economic theories; Mayor Hewitt's time-obsession; a woman murderer (Mrs. Robinson) cited to counter claims of female inferiority. **The cartoons**: Top illustration shows a couple discussing a "rock garden" (unclear reference); bottom shows people climbing a pole for seats—possibly satirizing competitive scrambling for advantage or political positions. The satire mocks reformers, prohibitionists, women in politics, and contemporary figures with characteristic 1880s Judge magazine irreverence and wordplay.

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WHAT BLIGHTED Me, Wanenry (© ighted —" What a charming little rock garden you've arranged down there on the bluff; so solid and substantial, you know.” HUM OF THE COURT. ARGONIA, the Kansas town with woman mayor, has been wrecked by acyclone. We predicted that A PAMPHLET tries to show the pedigree of the devil. If his origin is English it will be a good thing for the gentleman, LET IT be established that Colonel Ingersoll has plagiarized and_ the fame of the man he hooked from will be made forevermore. H! NRY STANLEY has been lost and found so often that there is no fatted veal except that whose killing nas been begun at St. Louis, A PROHIBETIONIST is not a mugwamp. He thinks that as to one. question no man has a right to an opinion that is opposed to his own, ENRY GEORGEISM in brief, as presented by the Detroit /rce Press— Some measure that will make the workman rich and the employer poor. AID that one pound of banana has more nutriment than three nd we know of lots of men who have always objected sting corn in that way T LOOKS much as if Mr. Blaine would have to run anyhow, We at Augusta has been robbed of its private papers by a Demoe thief, Will Nthe London 77mes speaks of James Lewis as the trans- Atlantic Coquelin it makes. a mis- take. Here we speak of Coquelin as that most polished of comedians the trans-Atlantic James Lewis. observe that his house HEY SAY that women are not the equals of men, and. yet Mrs. Robinson of Somerville, S. has murdered several persons with more nerve and dexterity than any male murderer has ever shown. MAYOR HEWITT is so de- ny that he has six clocks in his office; and, dock- ing them for of lost time, he clears enough for the voted to econd every moment city to pay a small portion of his salary A. DETECTIVE who recently shot himself in the back will to have somebody He theories and no fact tind the bullet. ‘Though, to be sure, have explain how he did it, will have six even if they y Swives (te cry, Sandy,’ yous kin have my seat.”” GOING AT A SACRIFICE whe has climbed the pole and found all the seats wcupied)—" Doat THE ENGAGEMENT. And just then mamma tumed around ! he was probably t theories he ever had. SOCIETY amateur who enters upon professional theatricals get along very well for a time; but she must not postpone her div and temporary remarriage too long. HE CONSTITUTION doesn’t have the personal pronoun * she:” so the Sun reaches the conclusion that, whether Belva Lockwood is elected or not, she is the she who must not be obeyed. ing to run away from himself out of disgust for a T IS SAID that Judge Gresham “lacks a barrel. advantage; and it may at least be said of him, judging from revord, that he has the bullets to put in one. SPEAKING OF BYGONES, Belva Lockwood said recently that she had written her letter of a would have liked to do so long before her young man nominated her THE MUGWUMPS of the Democratic party include men who have con trol of the newspapers of the largest Democratic circulation : but they haven't the open, manly wump which u Republican side comparatively re- spectable. RS. KANE Fox girls, says ism is humbug exce ‘The exception is ve the proposition, for certain nothing but raps to show for it the d would have been knocked out Fs ago. hat is som ptance; whereas we personally suspect that she makes the bolters on one of the Rochester II of the rs damay with yee sey Jub “that the evolutiona of destiny is also the positive p ati says somebody, our hopes or the ne We have thought that Ferguson's b a pretty good cure for “seems apparent that the gevtlen is in the M®>- ORMISTAN CHAN suffrage jus: England, talked in Boston t ay, and a lady who he Chant ‘is des suf illusions.” ast stages of the cisease, Tia from other ds her woman Mrs tined tw be very popula frage circles, and will be almost. as enjoyable & melancholy. her swldresses comicbooks.com