Judge, 1888-08-18 · page 4 of 18
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This page contains political humor targeting 1880s American figures and controversies. Key references include: **"Looking Into the Possible Future"** (top cartoon): Mrs. Floater discusses her future son-in-law, a military officer, expressing concern about his moral character—satirizing anxieties about marrying into questionable circles. **Political jibes**: References to President Cleveland's fishing habits, B. Lockwood (likely Belva Lockwood, 1884 presidential candidate who rode a tricycle—mocked for being unwomanly), and Jay Gould (wealthy industrialist criticized as ruthless). **"A Slip of the Tongue"** (bottom): A wordplay cartoon showing someone making an embarrassing verbal gaffe. The column also mocks Cleveland's vacation, debates about Mugwumps (Republican reformers), and references to Frances Folsom Cleveland (the president's young wife), suggesting contemporary gossip about Cleveland's personal life. The humor assumes readers' familiarity with current political personalities and scandals now largely forgotten.
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500 HUM OF THE COURT. WOULD it not be well to put a little salt on the extremity of the bobtail car? ILLS GRINDS slowly, but the worker that makes his grist is ground exceeding fine. O MAN ever rode to the white house on a bicycle; but B. Lockwood isn’t a man, and she rides a tricycle. THE PRESIDENT fishes well in ordinary waters, but the hook he drops into the political sea is without inviting bait. YOU CAN'T catch a weasel asleep, and Dan's account tallies exactly with that of Grover as to the number of bluetish. PEOPLE are getting so fashionable at the Oriental hotel, Manhattan Beach, that the ladies all dress before breakfast. MUGWUMP is not necessarily a prohibi- tionist, nor is a prohibitionist necessarily. « mugwump. Let those people thank God for that, THEY SAY that Jay Gould is threatened with insanity; but thus far the insanity has been altogether on the side of those who have had dealings with him HEN the Hewitt for governor Abram gave a wild ery of de- spair and immediately went and took some medicine. THE JUDGE has never failed or grown weak or timid in its loyalty to Frances Folsom Cleveland, and may her shadow grow large; but why did she not get a divorce? And what an excellent woman Mrs. Benjamin Harrison would be in her place ! HE JUDG R is still turned to the Washington horizon with no large size but great alertness; but there are still no orders from srover to the federal subordinates to go home and smoke their pipes with their idle feet on the otherwise unoccupied mantel-piece. A CONTEMPORARY with pronounced Democratic symptoms keeps calling out that the skies are bright. We have noticed that sort of astronomical hallucination at the beginning of several campaigns, and Times nominated thing it would be to ha ve A SLIP OF THE TONGUE. a permit to de dot, “Yah! LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBLE FUTURE. Ms. FLoater—" This is my future son-in-law, Licutenant Snavemouth of her majesty’s dragoons Rut what makes you so distrait, col Con, Bure (ef the Twelfth C. ve to kill a lamb like tha )—"* L was just thinking, my dear madam, what a terrible the most of the sufferers have divided their services between the lunatic asylum and the penitentiary. HERE HAVE been objections to the president's vacation, foolishness. of his life. OURTLANDT PALMER was nota Christian in theory, but he hit it very nicely in practice; and if they are hard on such men over there what is going to become of the rest of us? MBS: CLEVELAND, perhaps, Cleveland ; but they are cut on the bias and are so generally out of the pre fashion that they can never go into the ballot-box, LVILLE D. FULLER says Chic as a summer resort, So remarked the chief proprietor of that warm place over there, and we must say that lots of persons have accepted the suggestion MB: DANA makes the happy discovery that, while all free- traders were not confederates. all confederates were and arc free-traders. Thus, thanks to Mr. Dana, we know not only what the old traitor was but what the existing traitor is, HERE WAS a man who got sixty days in the penitentiary, and he went there with a light heart and a sweet smile." At last at last!” he exclaimed as he donned the striped suit, “It is humili- ation, but there I shall be free from the campaign sonj R. McG) Times flat failures. That is By all means let us give him a vacation for the rest es votes for Mr. ling p suits him well enough YNN and Henry George are advised by the Buffalo to sit calmly down and ask themselves if they are not Now we shouldn't advise them to sit at all. They have brains enough, but their intelligence is imperfectly protected THE FRIENDS of Belva Lockwood are calling such suffragists as Stanton and Anthony featherheads and fossils, “That will never do, dears. Without courtesy and gentleness Mrs, Lockwood will stand not a ghost of a chance of election, and mud-throwing is a job merely for the laundress UDGE pictures a fine old Irish lady landing at Castle garden A.D. 1840, with a washboard under her arm, JUDGE. is at anachronismist. Washboards were not known in Ireland forts years ago, if they are common there now. But that’s nothing. Ir Mr. Jefferson's play the wife of Rip Van Winkle is represented a= washing with a board.— Buffalo Express. The Express must not call us such bad things, but confine itself to the facts, The washboard was known in Ireland more than forty years ago; though we must admit that it was used eld. Indeed, it was contemporary with the shillelah and that came in with the creation, rs merely as a shi comicbooks.com