Judge, 1889-05-25 · page 3 of 18
Judge — May 25, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several brief satirical items typical of Judge's format: **Top cartoon ("A Trifle Careless"):** A farmer casually lights his pipe near an artillery officer conducting weapons practice, oblivious to the danger. The satire mocks rural carelessness and indifference to military operations. **Bottom cartoon ("An Artist in His Way"):** A woman congratulates a man on being a "hanging committee" member, misunderstanding "art" as execution rather than aesthetic creation. This appears to mock either actual executions or capital punishment practices of the era, presented as dark "art." **Text items** satirize contemporary figures: Gladstone's temperance, the Salvation Army's noise, Father Damien (a real missionary who died of leprosy), and military/political figures like Grant, Butler, and Porter. The magazine maintains a cynical, mordant tone throughout, using brief anecdotes and visual gags to comment on social and political absurdities of the period.
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HERE WAS a time when it was not possible to have too much of Christine Nilsson; but they say that now she weighs 300 pounds and an uncountable irn- mensity of francs. eee MB. GLADSTONE recently dined with the staff of Punch, and went home at mi night with as steady a walk as if he had been taking merely milk and water—and very likely hehad. 5 yy N ONE DAY recently thig country had snow and frost, the thermometer at ninety, and a cyclone that would have done no discredit to the West Indies. In weather and in war this coun- try is truly invincible, FATHER DAMIEN,whowent to Honolulu a well man, and died as a missionary, of leprosy, will in time be forgotten by this world; but when time is rolled together like a scroll his name will be very conspicuous on the document. . NO MAN should be debarred from office merely because he is a relative of the president. We observe that no man, regard less of the relative question, is debarred the privilege of fighting when his country is in danger, and it is LIEUTENANT OF ARTILLERY (during greatgun practice at Willett’s Point)— y, there ! LONG ISLAND FARMER —" Let her go, cap. forgot my matches.” a poor rule that works only one way. Jack Darnixcer —" Ya-as. about it?” A TRIFLE CARELESS. Do you want to be blown to picces? better bottle thems Iwan ter light my pipe, an’ clean It was in Arizona. “AN ARTIST IN HIS WAY. Miss Citisiota—"' I'm so glad to have met you, Mr. Darringer. I dote on art, and understand you were a member of one of the hanging committees last season.” 107 HE SALVATION ARMY make so much noise that their neighbors proclaim them a nuisance, and we all know that a nuisance in the name of religion is just as bad as if it had some other name. LET US BE FAIR. OUVERNEUR MORRIS says the bulk of the people of the colonies were tories in "76 and thereon until the close of the war; but it must be admit- ted that, like the copperheads of about thirty years ago, they were the most enthusiastic of patriots the very moment the war was ended, Let us gi gentle- men of that kind their due. WHAT GRANT WOULD ADVISE. AT THIS MOMENT itis im- possible to believe that Ben Butler is ever intoxicated ; or, if he is, the brainy old chap has found the bibulous means to be extremely interesting which most people lack. Again, it is not to be supposed that Admiral Porter is or ever was a coward. These conclusions make it nece sary to suppose that both tlemen, whether in or out of their cups, are prevaricative, either intentionally or otherwise, and that they had ves, with a wire over the corks. And I must say that Roystering Pete died game as a tiger. How d' you hear comicbooks.com