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This page is primarily **advertising and publishing promotion** rather than editorial satire or political cartoons. It showcases: **Content:** - Hotel advertisements (New York establishments like the Brevoort House and Grand Union Hotel) - Business listings (limestone quarry, window shutters, file products) - **Judge Publishing Company's own products**: five serialized novels with titles like "Napoleon Smith" and "Star-Crossed: The Life and Love of an Actress," priced at 25-50 cents - Promotion for "Judge's Serials" (quarterly publication featuring humor pieces like "The Dude") - A brief anecdote about Judge Graham's wedding, illustrating typical period social gossip The page demonstrates how **Judge magazine functioned commercially**—not just as satire but as a publishing enterprise selling fiction, promotional space, and merchandise to readers. The advertisements reflect Gilded Age consumer culture and New York's prominence as an urban center.

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LEADING HOTELS. ORK 'Y. BREVOORT HOUSE, vivTm AVENUE (near Washington square) NEW YORK. O. B, Linsey, Proprietor. HOTEL GLENHAM, Firm avESUE (between ist and 2d streets) NEW TORK. B, Barry, Proprietor GRAND UNION HOTEL, Orprostrs Guano Caxtnat Daror, 4p St., Rooms $a day and upwarda. ‘Baggage to and from Grand Central Depot free. European PI SQUARE HOTEL & HOTEL DAM. UNION SQUARE and 15TH ST. European Plan. Dam & De RevERe, Proprietors, Furopean Plan. GILSEY HOUSE, Corner Broadway and 20th Street, New York. J-H. BRESLIN & BRO., Proprietors. y. KEELER’S HOTEL, Band 3 Maioer Lave, ALBAN UTICA, N. Y. ST, JAMES HOTEL, Utica, New York. SMITH & PATTEN, Proprietors. TO CONTRACTORS AND CAPITALISTS. FOR SALE, OR TO LEASE FOR A TERM OF YEARS. ‘An extensive Lime Stone Quarry in the Mohawk Valley, at Palatine Bridge, N.Y. ‘The Quarry has an apen face of 1200 fect in length, contains from’15 to 20 acres, and is situated within a few rods of the New York Central Railroad, ‘The courses range from a few inches up to 3 feet and over in thickness, and are particularly adapted for heavy walls and bridge work. For further particulars apply to S. L. Frey, Palatine Bridge, or A. B, Frey, * Judge” office, New Vork City. THD 5, & ML SHUTTER BOW and LOCK Price 10 Cents each, Postpaid. Patented July 10, 1888, A simple, cheap and practical invention for bowing and fastening shutters. Attached to any window in two min- ‘tes at a cost complete of 10 cents, Will not rot, neither wind nor thieves can move it. An orma- ment to the window, Why bow shutters with a piece of string when this is available? AGENTS WANTED; special rates and territory given by MERRILL & SOX, 700 Washington Street, RASTOM, Pa, RSs FILES FOR “JUDGE.” HE SIMPLEST and strongest File made. Will not deface the centre cartoon, and allows cach paper to be re- moved singly. Each File will hold twenty-six issues, or one volume. Price by Mail, Postage Pald, 95c. Tue Juvcr Pustisumc Co. JODGE BUILDING, 110 Fifth Avenue, WEW YORK CITY. JUDGE 279 | JUDGE'S NOVELS. | THE LATEST AND BEST WORKS OF FICTION. | No. |. “NAPOLEON SMITH.” By W. J. ARKELL and A. T,. WORDEN. (Fourth Edition.) PRICH, 25 CENTS. “Napoleon Smith,” a novel by a well-known New-Yorker, is published by the Judge publishing company. Its frst edition of 50,000, which is unparalleled inthe publishing trade, is fully warranted by the plot of the ston ‘The author has made quite as much of a hit in popular interest as Rider Haggard ever lone, and there is no one who reads it who will not be so entertained as to ask all his friends to read it, It is remarkably well con- ceived and is handled with skill.— Boston Globe, No.2. “STAR-CROSSED: The Life and Love of an Actress.” By AN ACTRESS. PRICH, 50 CENTS. A remarkably interesting story. Intensely original in style and full of startling incident. The author is a well-known actress of the American stage, and has written the book in a charmingly refreshing, vigorous, and entertaining manner. No. 3. ‘““LADY CAR: The Sequel of a Life.” By MRS, OLIPHANT. PRICE, 25 CENTS. The latest story from the pen of this entertaining writer. ‘The only authorized American edition. No 4. “JACK OF HEARTS: A Story of Bohemia.” By H. T. JOHNSON. PRICH, 25 CENTS. A delightful romance of English life. No.5. “A PHILOSOPHER IN LOVE AND IN UNIFORM.” BY THE AUTHORS OF “NAPOLEON SMITH." Bound in paper.) PRICH, 25 CENTS. Of all the weird, dramatic, and intensely interesting novels of this era, none can surpass ‘A Philosopher in Love and in Uniform,” just published by the Judge publishing company. Its author must have been not only a soldier, but a man familiar with life in its various phases, and, beyond that, a deep and laborious student in recondite literature. His powers of description are certainly remarkable. Nothing could be more vivid than his description of the battle of Chickamauga, though it is told in few words, One can almost imagine that he sces the flashing of the sabres, that he hears the roar of the artillery and the groans of the dying. ‘There is a fascination about this novel that strangely touches the heart of the reader. Best of all that may be said of it, there is nothing in it that awakens an unkind emotion, nothing that panders to depravity or violates refinement. | ‘Those who read “Napoleon Smith"—one of the famous of last summer's popular navels—will recognize in the writer of A Philosopher in Love and in Uniform" the intelligent and active brain that created the former romantic story.— Frank Leslie's Mlustrated Newspaper. All the above books are to be obtained of booksellers and newsdealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price by (Illustrated. Tue Jupce Pusrisnine Co,, JUDGH BUILDING, Fifth Avenue and 16th Street, JUDGE'S SERIALS—No. 7. “Te Dude.” BEING “JUDGE TURES 01 NEW YORK. JUDGE'S SERIALS. Published Quarterly. Ten Cents per single number, “The Man Who Talks.” “The German Policeman.” “Zim's Bketches.” “Black and Tan.” “The Blue Pencil Club.” No, 6, “The Cold Snap.” No. 7. “The Dude.” To be had of alt book and news receipt of price by THE JUDGE PUBLISHING OOMPANY, New Vor Crry, No. 1, No, 2. No, 8, No. 4 No, 5. BEST PICTUR. SWELL LIF $ AND CARICA- Now ovr, PRICH, 10 CENTS. For sale by alt newsdealert and trainboys, or sent poste paid on receipt of price by Tue Juncr Pustisume Co., NEW YORK. ers, or mailed on SLIPPED A COG. A poet sat down on a log one day ‘To dash off a simple thyme, But the sheriff happened along that way And the poet had no time. —/ In company with the éite of this neighborhood, we were invited to the abode of Judge Graham last Thurs- day evening to witness the marriage of County Clerk Dan Scott to the beautiful Arabella Johnson, only daughter of the aristocratic widow Jotinson of Bay- horse heights. ‘The widow had made a spread worthy of the days of Cleopatra, and Dan had on a new suit sent by express from Omaha for the occasion, Every- thing passed off pleasantly until eight o'clock, at which hour the bride was discovered to be missing, and in- vestigation soon brought out the fact that she had gone dead back on Dan and skipped the tra-la—whatever that is—with a bold cow-boy named French Jim. She left a message to the effect that she could never, never love a man with a cataract in his left eye, and that meant Dan. ‘There was a feast, but no wedding, and Daniel will have to try again,—Arizona Kicker. change, ‘The Mediterranean sea, once free from sharks, is now thickly infested by these ‘monsters. Can it be possible they have heard of an approaching real-estate boom in Palestine and intend to be on hand when it comes?— Chicago “What do you think of a man who will bury two children in the morning and go to a ball game in the afternoon?" asked a well-known joker of a party of friends in an up-town resort last evening. ‘‘Ile's a brute,” was the answer. Then all wanted to know who he was. ‘An undertaker,” was the reply.—Aewark Journal. FLESS & RIDGE, JUDGE PRINTERS, FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. comicbooks.com