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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains brief satirical items typical of Judge's "Hum of the Court" humor section, mixed with social commentary on 1880s American politics. **Key references:** - **Blaine/Maine**: Allusions to James G. Blaine's 1884 presidential campaign and election results in Maine, a politically significant state - **Cleveland's letter**: References President Grover Cleveland's letter accepting the Democratic nomination - **John L. Sullivan**: The famous boxer, used here for moral commentary - **Larry Godkin**: Appears to reference a suicide by jumping from Brooklyn Bridge—a sensationalized news event of the era - **Philip Sheridan**: The recently deceased Civil War general **The satire's point**: These are quick jabs at politicians (Cleveland, Blaine), celebrities, and public figures, using wordplay and ironic observations. The bottom cartoon warns against ignoring warning labels—a practical joke about carelessness with fireworks during political celebrations. The tone is typical Judge irreverence: mocking politicians' competence, celebrity scandals, and social pretension.
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MORE SUDDEN THAN AGREEABLE. Iy—"* Just to think, Evangeline. Only three short weeks and we shall be united forever.” HUM OF THE COURT. CRY OF the bridge-jumper—The dime museum or death! THE BLAINE PARADE was so large that every Democrat parade to be delivered from it. . ‘SA RAH,” said the small boy at the lawn-mower to his nurse, “come out and help me peel the grass.” MA&k« You THIS —The Mill ‘er always grinds with the Warner that is wise, and never lets his sorrows dam his eyes. JUDGE from some prize jokes in our contemporaries that every ads the JUDGE and 1s unable to forget it. M R has just celebrated his seventy-cighth birthday. When we want to celebrate we shan't select such a mean old day as that. oun -LIVAN has collapsed financially and in’ several other Grover, Grover! How speedily we great men have to come down to the ordinary level ! O'HAVI ou hi Jimmy Blaine, will find too late that Maine is alw and fish-hooks too. rd the news from Maine Morte Jimmy's She goes hes bent for too; and Grover there e, and lose his lines nd Harrison a But they were not quite prepared for such a sudden union as the nev breaker brought them. PHILIP SHERIDAN was a little man, but it will be impossible to find a large one who can fill his place without feeling that he has to: much room, E. HAVE frequently said that Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance: would come before election, because after that there could be possible use for it. CHILD Cooking at ugly my dear.” Did God m and the WE HAVE that respect for John L. Sullivan which would make i difficult to give him a column of denunciation ; but it would please us better to have somebody else perpetrate it’ and sign te it. THE LATE Mr. Larry Godkin should have selected a higher brdg« The height of the Brooklyn bridge is 160 feet. and that of the Hungerford is a poor little space of thirty. Mr. Larry Godkin should not have drowned himself on E * Who made man, chim?” “Yes, de: arked paus: I guess God was tickled when he got him finished. his name lish soil. HIS GRANDFATHER'S COAT had a collar very high, and the tails of it swung around his legs; bat he lifted up his chin, and he finally went in, and hung it with his hat, and Several things like that, on several of the white-house pexs. GOOD ADVICE UNHEEDED. FReicnr MAN (impatiently)—" Well, now, this makes me tired hooks—handle with care,’ is becoming a chestnut. use a hook or don’t move it an inch.” “Use no They can’t bluff me, and I He used the hook without care, and it never struck him till, afterward» that the bundle contained torpedoes and other fireworks for a political ratifica tion. comicbooks.com