Judge, 1889-05-25 · page 4 of 18
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# Analysis of Judge Page 108 This page contains several satirical pieces mocking American politics and society of the late 19th century. **Top cartoon "Blind-Man's-Buff"**: A commentary on political confusion, depicting a chaotic game where participants cannot identify who they've caught—likely satirizing unclear political allegiances or the difficulty of distinguishing between political parties. **"Hum of the Court" section**: Short jokes and observations on various topics. Notable: Bishop Potter's indifference to the republic's fate; criticism of political corruption ("the grave of Mary Washington" should belong to the people); and jabs at Albany and Troy's train services, suggesting local incompetence. **"At the Hotel Fire"** (bottom illustration): A dark humor piece about a Chicago woman throwing luggage from a burning building, one piece striking a man in the head fatally. The pun: "He was too sweet to live." The page reflects Judge's typical satirical approach—combining political commentary with social observations and crude humor. The cartoons mock government inefficiency, moral hypocrisy, and contemporary scandals, though specific figures beyond Bishop Potter remain unclear without additional context.
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THE PLEASURES OF BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF. Littiy Bertir—" T know who I've caught.” Mamaa— Lirrie Beatie Bishor POTTER doesn’t despair of the republic. All he wants is to have it die and go to glory. and the gray were equally conspicuous in the great centen- . but there is just one color for every grave. OCI —" I'm saw- SONG OF dust when I ride.’ HE LATE William H, Barnum headed the greatest show on earth, with the sole exception of that of the opposing party HE GRAVE of Mary Washington ought to be decorated with a quit- claim deed that would make it the property of the people forever. E HAVE celebrated the victory over the English, On Dec tion day we remember with tears and praise the victory over oursel T IS A JOKE in Troy that trains do not stop in Albany unless they are flagged; but it ke in Albany that they do not stop in Troy because they can’t find the place. SCIENCE has discovered that a fish can be a hundred years old and not show a sign of age. ‘Therefore, if you do not wish to die early, do not be a mere clam—be a fish. ‘6BGGS WILL SETTL but not controversi Troy Press. We know of some eggs that have cleared an entire house, and they were not very good ¢ HE NEW BRITISH minister at Washington will know enous take care of his own business that will confer on him the “h” he may have left in England and which is appropriate to the first syllable of his last name, Wha inkler, I can feel his beard.” HUM OF THE COURT. (And grandma cut him out of her will.) N THE DAY previous to his execution a Dakota man sent out a notice of his own funeral, and added this note to the expected guests: “ Please omit flowe AT THE HOTEL FIRE. Hosen —‘ I'm “fraid poor Reddy's done for this time.” Foreman —" What struck him ?" Hosrwax—** Dey was a woman from Chicago in one of th’ third-story rooms, an’ she chucked out them valises before we could stop her, One of ‘m pasted him in d’ head.” He was too sweet to live. Society having adopted the circus a whim, and doing the perform- ing itself, the best families a hundred years hence will be largely given to coats-of-arms consisting principally of the jockey cap and the bareback act. A PHILOSOPHER on the Bing- hamton Republican says a philos- opher is a fool with lucid mements. He says it in one of his lucid moments, and we half suspect he has sixty of them to the hour, IDER has been attacked by a Maryland temperance organiza- tion as worse than whisky. ‘These radicals will make a fight against milk next, and then the farmer will get him another mor HEN A POET gets as old as Tennyson and Whittier are he had better write no more verses, be- cause the critics will say he has lost his poctic power, and the more so the less they know about it. OMEBODY SAYS that in the other world we will follow the oc- cupations we follow here. Well, if that is the case it will be mighty handy to have Canada, or that other dreadful place, over the border. IRGINIA may be the mother of presidents, but the Boston Herald is inclined to claim that Massachusetts is the mother and father of poets, and likewise the uncle and son-in-law. It isn't well to be too avaricious, but that may be a new kind of poetic license, comicbooks.com