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This page from **Judge** magazine contains political and social satire typical of the 1880s-90s era. Key references include: **"Hum of the Court"** contains brief satirical comments on current events: mocking **Ben Harrison's** claims to royal ancestry; poking fun at **Kaiser William**'s autocratic manner; and joking about recent social topics (widows sleeping on graves, protective tariffs). **"A Horse Was a Horse With Him"** depicts a rural character accepting farm animals without understanding their value—satirizing rural simplicity or the agrarian economy. **"On the Old Fish-House Wharf"** shows working-class life with slapstick humor about bathing in public waters. The overall tone reflects Judge's Republican-leaning editorial stance and preoccupation with class distinctions, political figures of the Harrison administration era, and urban/rural contrasts. The satire assumes readers' familiarity with contemporary political debates and public figures now largely forgotten.

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232 HUM OF THE COURT. THE Beeating Sun is right. On the fourth of July “Hurrah” must divide the honors with “ Ouch, THE FAVORITE BIRD of the Democratic party but in 18yo it was rooster, and the rooster roost= is crow; ed very low MAN in Pen found well-bucket the other day, and the moral is that he doesn’t slake his thirst in that way . IIE SOVEREIGNS have a right to sylvania a snake in his heir egotism, but it does seem odd to have the president use the personal pronoun as much as Kaiser William a HEY ARE saying now Broker Travers, wrir hands in the excitemen his great discovery. THE BLACK MAN mos have a place in heaven because, as Bob Ingers says, we shall need hin mend our harps. WAR LORD by ii heritance is like a her without a record and orator who has yet to make his first speech, TLE WILLIAM has been received by sone of his subjects with tolerat enthusiasm, but that is be- cause he has a good nurse I" HAS GOT to be such « habit for widows to sleep on their husbands’ graves that presently the spinster uf the period will find it neces. sary to sleep on the graves « the husbands of some of her that Ben Harrison has royal blood in his veins, and likewise that one of his ane Mas. Razz cestors signed the death-war- rant of a king. Se isn’t reasonable nchow it “Jong with th’ rest of last year’s shuckin’. HEN ONE recalls the president's speech of acceptance one sees what a great reform has been wrought in the first office, and kicks him- self for his stupidity in failing to know something of that kind before MBS: HARRISON has a handsome, dignitied. thoroughly American face, which resembles yreatly the goddess of liberty as she is given But don’t make any mistake; on the old American copper there is no copperhead about her U" IN Chemun wife sold a horse for five dollars because he was ge county an intoxicated man temporarily deserted by his hearted, That was free trade, but the woman yave him some needed lessons in protec~ tion when she got him home— you may venture money on that. GRASSHOPPERS ARE worth a dollar bushel in Minnes aman wanted a dog to kill rats, and tried the dog on z the rat killed the dog. * Bebuy t-t-the rat! beuy tthe r-rat When ree rat, shricked A HORSE WAS A HORSE WITH HIM. sho has just arrived in the country)—"* Mr, Razzle wanted m if you had room enough in the barn for a pair of cobs he is to bring up from the ¢ NATHAN—"* Bless yer heart, of course we has, bereaved neighbors. F. GIL more-or-less. band of Miss Gwynne, i a timid man as has been stated, Why! didn't h the courage to attempt the reading of one of his plays before a audience NOW THAT Amélie Rives is married, perhaps a few of the other wo. men of these United who is the bus He kin put ‘m right in th’ corn-criby have ir-sized s will be occasionally mentioned by the enterprising dail The good young wor but that has ps IDENTLY theory th: one’s father must have been a tramp and his grandfather a bloody sacrifice to the gory pws; but there is something in old proposition that there is such a thing as being too infernally democrat THERE HAVE come to us two or three protests that the New Y papers don’t treat Philadelphia fairly ; but, dear sakes! Philade can come over and knock the metropolis entirely out and that will tickl the injured party so that he will never come back to fight for his innings newspaper. was the autocrat sed on, Ah, what a sad thing marriage is! it is the Democratic 10 be truly democratic nm Benton's ON THE OLD FISH-HOUSE WHARF. Dowrev—" There's only one way to bathe, boys. a mish and a plunge like this.” You want to go in with Reader, this is not a Fourth of July pyrotechnic exhibition, It simply re resents Dumpey finding out that the tide is low. comicbooks.com