Judge, 1889-05-11 · page 4 of 16
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This page contains brief humorous observations ("Hum of the Court") and several satirical cartoons typical of 1880s American humor. **Main Content:** The page mixes short jokes about current events and personalities with illustrated gags. Notable references include: - A jab at the Detroit Free Press editor seeking a "marriage certificate" to court another woman—satirizing infidelity - A poem titled "In-Constancy" about a woman whose lover married another, yet she claims to be "the bride" (unclear/ambiguous meaning) - A "Warm Athletics" dialogue between acquaintances awkwardly reuniting at hot springs - Two comparison cartoons showing how a lecturer's expression changes when pointing to "a drop of water" versus "a drop of whiskey"—mocking temperance advocates' theatrical moralizing **Context:** This reflects late 19th-century preoccupations: infidelity scandals, women's romantic betrayals, and the temperance movement. The humor relies on wordplay and mild social criticism rather than political satire.
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16 HUM OF THE COURT. HE LECTURER always suspects the Easter egg until it is opened, and frequently he suspects it more thereafter. GOOD many persons got so settled in Oklahoma within a few hours after reaching there that they will never move again. VERYBODY SAYS “1 told you so,” with the sole ex- ceptiog of A. W. Greely. What A. W. says is, “ You will re- member that | didn’t predict A MAN has been in Iowa buy- ing cats to send to Dakota, which is overrun with mice. As he made a couple of dollars on each cat it was a mighty mice transaction, THORNDYKE RICE, it is predicted, will “razzle- dazzle the czar at poker.” These expressions are very curious. We know, of course, what razzle- dazzle is, but what's poker? MR. WALTERS who re- cently killed himself, dress- ed himself as for an evening party before committing the deed. But they don’t have such fashions over there. They have wings. T LOOKS as if Sullivan and Kilrain, having put up their WARM ATHLETICS. Mr, Witktn—" You surely can’t have forgotten me, We took in the Hot springs together last winter. Miss _ three lines long. But how power- ful it was! THE EDITOR of the Detroit Free Press says he wants a marriage certificate that will permit him to mark in the name of another girl. He is wrong there. What he wants, the old reprobate! is a certificate that will permit the girl to select a man who hasn't five wives al- ready and another expected on the next train. IN-CONSTANCY. AS on a summer evening,a year ago. I felt sure that he loved me—he told me so, He said his life was lonely, and here he sighed, And asked me, oh! so sweetly, to be his bride, This morning he was married—the pa- pers say. I read it half-a-smiling and then turn away. He vowed that he another would never wed, Yet here it is—yes—"* Married /" the notice said. I'm certain that my ew» love has not grown cold; Again I read the story—so briefly told— ‘And then without a heartache lay it aside; “Tis true that he is wedded, but I'm the bride! LENA Gite meows, LIKE A LOADSTONE. “Have you seen anything money, would have to put up their fists—provided, of course, they are not of a policeman around here ?" inquired a man in an excited tone of voice. xiven the opportunity to steal the swag and run away from each other. “ No," replied the belated pedestrian, “But I saw a woman stand- ROBERT P. PORTER will edit the census with much ability ; but the ing on the next corner, so he can’t be far away.” moment he adds up a column of those interminable figures and applies the result to his salary he will become the victim of the other bobbies, GETTING DIRECTIONS. [7 IS TRUE that Mr. Washington occasionally expressed himself in Doctor (after examining little Willie)—" The child needs a plaster, passionate language ; but he selected his adjectives with great care, was Mrs. Simpson.” economical in the use of them, and rarely indulged in anathema more than Mother —" Yes, doctor ; externally or internally 2” Huiyhitionit yen A DROP. OF WHISKEY SOME CHANGES IN EXPRESSION. Mr. Soxer (at the lecture)—"* There, Mandy !” Mrs, Soker—“' There, Silas!" comicbooks.com