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This page from *Judge* magazine contains satirical commentary on contemporary public figures and social issues, typical of the publication's humor. **Top Cartoon ("Uncurbed Anxiety"):** Shows a Washington dinner where someone asks a Chinese legation official what he'll have, creating awkward anxiety about dining etiquette. **"Hum of the Court" section:** A collection of brief satirical jabs at notable figures including: - Laura D. Bridgman (deaf-blind woman) - Lily Langtry (actress/socialite, mocked for selling her properties) - Mark Twain (ridiculed for his bank account rather than his wit) - Tennie Claflin (divorcing over bigamy) - Beatrice (likely Princess Beatrice, criticized for having a second child) - Robert Lincoln (President Lincoln's son, chided for visiting the Queen) **"The Laziest on Record" cartoon:** Shows polo players, with humor about a horse throwing a rider. The satire targets Victorian-era celebrities, politicians, and social absurdities, using caustic wit typical of Gilded Age humor magazines.
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UNCURBED ANXIETY. Mxs, Desmonp (af a Washington dinner) —"Ask Me. Hop Bung what he will have, Collins.” (Collins tw Tie uNb! jispers to the under-see -SECKETAKY—"* What tary of the Chinese legation.) ice they hittee th’ pipe, Hish 2" HUM OF THE COURT. DEATH is supposed to have brought to Laura D. Bridgman the only real knowledge of life she ever had. RS. LANGTRY has sold at auction all of her properties except Mr. Langtry, and nobody wants to buy that. OU CAN cure freckles, but the speckled girl is just as good and good- looking as if the sun had never kissed her. HE FRENCH DUEL—Henri Rochefort recently drew a pistol on a bad man, and then put the pistol back in his pocke THE BATHING Co the same kind of pictured in the daily papers show that atomy will prevail this year as last. MAK TWAIN enjoys none of his jokes half as much as that one in his bank-book which shows an income of $80,000 a year. IRECTLY the their doors: sion before.” HE HUS the bouncing ppointing powers will have to paste this notice on Xo admission after 2 o'clock Pp. P. S.—No admis- ND of T Tent had two husbands living when she married him, H'm! Two? ME: BENNETT not care so much for Gordon, because he dead; but the mahdi the most successful liar in the world, and the Herald has been rather weak in that line of matter lately. ennie Claflin sues for divorce on the ground that does HIS COUNTRY is said to have 9,000 women doctors, That is splendid evidence of lib- erality in. thought, and, thank heaven! there isn’t a death-record for this country in all our library. COL. SHEPARD goes to Paris as a repre- sentative of the Presby- terians, and that is one reason why he carries his epaulets and knives in his boots. But the Parisians had better be careful — careful, Mr, Kran —"* That's Mr. Woopnury (dravelingly)— I've just sent me man to drive him back again, THE LAZIEST ON RECORD. ther a striking attitude, Woody.” ? . Polo pony got out from under me, d’ y" know, and H[!S MAJESTY of Russia has learned for the hundredth time that bit- terest of all lessons that one must fear his friends twice where he looks out for his enemies once. ROFESSOR SULLIVAN of Boston has a learned article in the World on the best way to preserve health. ‘There is a simpler method than any he presents—to wit, let the Hon, Jacob Kilrain alone. EATRICE presents the English tax-payer with a boy baby, her second production of that kind; and the delight that follows, it may be truly is commensurate with the capacity of the tax-payer's pocket. CHICAGO is to have a women’s directory; and when one considers the character of the men of that town how sweet it is to think that they have disappeared from print and home and gone to St. Louis. © MAN named Smith will ever be president, because knowing that they will be ineligible for And yet this country h s relat pointment to office, will all great many able, honest, HORR, who killed himself because a lady refused him, taking means before- hand to have the lady's letters to him published, did his best act when he died, and it is probably the only thing in his ca- reer that is worth remem- bering. WIGGINS prophecies fifteen years ahead now; but it is gratifying to know that he gets up no new kind of storm, pre- ferring tostick tothe good, old-fashioned, although somewhat fossilized, cy- clone, hurricane, and tor- nado. ROBERT LINCOLN is chided for making the journey to Windsor to see the queen; and for our part we do think he ought to have insisted that the queen should come to him, and on a day of ar—say the 367th th is left out of the plebeian calen- comicbooks.com