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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 252 This page contains political commentary and satirical items typical of the 1880s-90s era. Key references include: **"Why Mrs. Carroll Fainted"**: A domestic humor piece where Mrs. Carroll discovers her youngest child has drawn a mustache on a portrait of the late Mr. Carroll using brown paper and charcoal—a common children's prank format. **Political jabs** target figures like: - **Grover Cleveland** (implied references to "Mrs. Cleveland" and administrative matters) - **William Henry Harrison** (comparing his legacy to his grandson's) - **Belva Lockwood** (praising her persistence in public life) - **Judge Gresham** (a farewell verse to a departing Republican politician) **Editorial comments** mock journalists, praise French literary translations, and critique American political figures' inconsistencies. The **three bottom cartoons** ("The Lion and the Gnat") appear to be unrelated humorous sketches about size disparity or power imbalance. Overall, this represents typical Judge content: gossip, domestic humor, and partisan political satire aimed at readers familiar with contemporary office-holders and social figures.

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252 HUM OF THE COURT. [7 1S NOT singular that Mrs. Cleveland has abandoned the bustle, because wants to see all the papers him- self. WE THINK. sometimes, that William Henry Harrison lives in the existence of his grand- son more than the latter profits from the memory of William Henry. LL HONOR to Belva Lock- wood; and may she pre- now Grover serve it with the persistency success that have charact her life before and since she reached the age of political con sent. A SOUTHERN PAPER says Don M. Dickinson must straight to Michigan and stump that state. There isn’t much civil-service reform in that prop- osition, but that is sentiment and this is busi Realty for the excelle ancestors. particular! at to blame of his Washington was unfortunate in that respect, and there are lots of people who recall him as a par- ticularly good man ME HOWEL rapher of c« he reproduces the common dullness. MISS RIVES'S ©The Quick or the Dead” is to have the honor of translation into French, It is a recognition of American passion that will encourage Monsicur Zola to greater efforts in behalf of the French article ; but we do hope he will contrive somehow to keep his shirt on. VW, MARTIN JONES beat W, Jennings Demarest as the prohibition * candidate for nomination for governor: but we have yet to hear ladies’ alphabetical secretary as an aspirant for nominal the Hon, J. Hamilton Quincy Willcox and some other hough, to be sure, we have T. Alfred Love on the B. Lockwood national et; and we have the pleasure of knowing that A. Alphonzo Hopkins was the chief man who had to dowith the nomination of W, Martin Jones. paper and some’ charcoal. S is condemned by the Pittsburg Dispatch asa phot mon dullness.” Exactly; but how uncommonly we of the mon his ticket WHY MRS. CARROLL FAINTED. She took the new minister into the picture gallery to show him the late Mr. Carroll’s portrait, and found that her youngest had been there with a sheet of brown THE EDITOR of the Deter Free Press candidly adm that if Washington were alive could tell a lie big enough § the Free Press, and that's t! best article of magnanimity ever heard of. JOUN BULL is very ca as to girth and very jolly to countenance, and we are more or less English, you knov but John Bull doesn’t runt! polities of this country as he d previous to that destruction « tea in Boston harbor. E ARE quite sure 1! young emperor of Ge many is a man of opinion though it is only fair to admi: that they originally belonged somebody else. Still, he has ur doubtedly been measured for them and they have been nicely made over. N THE OLD Jerusalem there was extreme cleanliness be- man swept his par I sidewalk. In the there are cause eve of the gene Jerusalem of health and prosperity because every man has the self-interest which obliges him to take care of his own family. A SPECULATOR in cereals says he always thought they has long wanted to pick now grew like’one of Rider Haggard’s novels, wheat from the bushes it grew on: but we guess he exaggerates except as to the fortune he has made from his ignorance of the stuffs he deals in MAN in New Jersey says he remembers mosquitoes any one of which could kill a horse; but, whatever their power, it is curious that none of them could kill a liar, T WAS a rude, uncultivated address in music that a somewhat hilar ous Republican sang to the sails that took a prominent Republican away from these shores : “And here's to that man Judge Gresham, May the winds bring him back, But the rhyme is not entirely bad, and the sentiment is beautiful, beauti- t there is a great deal of excellent material in that other Ohio man, Alexander McKinley THE LION AND THE GNAT. Metvey—" Ver says yure ould Bizzymarrk cud lick shpots out 0° Ireland alone be himsilf ?” Sreizex—" Dot's vot T said !" Metvey—" Well, be th’ powers! They'll be wan less Ditchmon t kill ! Hu-ra-roo ! 1" comicbooks.com