Judge, 1889-09-07 · page 3 of 16
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This page from Judge contains several satirical items targeting 1890s American politics and culture: **"Those Sea Poets"** mocks romantic poets for contradictory descriptions of the ocean—calling it both "placid" and "rolling," "calm" and "raging wild." The satire criticizes overwrought literary language that becomes tedious through repetition. **Political jabs** target: - Prohibitionists and the *Voice* magazine for prioritizing temperance over Republican electoral losses - Grover Cleveland's supporters objecting to David B. Hill's state ticket nomination - References to Boulanger (likely General Boulanger, a French political figure) and comparisons to exiled Louis Napoleon **"The Four Hundredth"** advocates New York hosting the world's fair, arguing it has superior infrastructure, hotels, and transportation compared to other North American cities. **"A Conclusion in the Park"** shows a working-class man on a bench discussing his legal troubles, likely satirizing urban poverty or the justice system. **Bernhardt reference** mocks actress Sarah Bernhardt's theatrical grief over her husband's death, suggesting her emotion is performative rather than genuine.
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THOSE SEA POETS. One singer says ‘tis “placid,” ‘Then in stanza next below He speaks of it as “rolling in its tide.” Another drives his stylus ‘To impress its ‘summer glow,” While we secretly have thoughts of homicide, And they've called it “raging wild ; They've loaded it with ‘jections by the score. It's “dark,” and “deep, Or it’s “calm, ene, ; Until the terms have come to be a bore, and “stormy,” But circumstances sometimes ‘Tend to muddle up the muse, And we're thankful for the respite when they do. There are * grays, : Left to act as ‘scriptive hues, But he dies who dares to call “is ocean and ** purples” “blu 6 ¢ DOWN through the cizcumambient ether come two lines from Lowell,” says the //erald, This reminds us of Hangman Joe Atkinson ; though indeed Joe occasionally drops four. HE CRANKS known as prohibitionists, especially the Vorce, continue to insist that the best temperance is that which knocks out Republi- cans and brings the Democratic party to the front. And the man Aaron thought it would improve his looks to cut off his nose. CABLI toria is “ perfectly kitten- ish.” In view of the devel- opment of her age and na we should think it would be safer to regard her as. too _ imperfectly kittenish. Some OF OUR contem- poraries are hard at work burying Boulanger, and we trust they will sue: late Louis Napoleon were exiled in London, and they afterward made much fuss. not wise to hold your funeral till you get your corpse. THE FRIENDS of Grover Cleveland object strenu- ously to Mr. Hill’s state ticket before it is nominated. Whether they will object to it after it is nominated, as Mr. Hill did in the case of the national ticket last year, is one of those things that you can’t find out till after election; but there is always a convenient place for a knife a i Every time I'm took in dey in the Democratic boot. time, by th’ looks 0° that one,” A CONCLUSION IN THE PARK. Homeny Perticrew (who has been rudely a strange judge on d bench. THE FOUR HUNDREDTH. ‘THE WORLD is united in behalf of the proposition that the world’s fair shall be held in the world’s metropolis, It is proper that the other great centres of North America should present their ¢ nd the ambi- tion of South America is to be encouraged in this as in every other case involving pride, patriotism, and enterprise; but New York has the hotels, the halls, the places for the great and all the smaller exhibitions, the ave- nues of entrance and exit by rail and water, the materia for amu ty, the honesty, the p y tem, the gates that open to and from the continent, the money, the disposition, the everything that to the success of such colos- sal celebrating. The action thus far taken by the local authorities is wise and ¢ vincing. Congress will ine and public opinic everywhere has already ex- pressed it. We shall have the greatest celebration of the century, and a hundred xo to the ment, the hospita contributes dorse it, national capital—which will be how far west ? HE, LESS you know the situation in Ha more you are informed. eee BERNHARDT is said to weep over the death of her husband with the vehe- mence of the widow who never separated, from that incum- brance during her life. Ah, what an actress is Sara !—and this is said in full knowled; of the fact that all of her pas- sion of hate and love is the cae 7 sakened)—" Jest_ my bloomin’ luck ! I s'pose T'll git twenty year this genuine, unpumped agony. comicbooks.com