Judge, 1889-09-28 · page 14 of 16
Judge — September 28, 1889 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertisements and humor snippets**, not political cartoons. The "A Few Smiles" section contains brief jokes typical of late-19th-century American humor: **The jokes' themes:** - Wordplay and puns (cork leg as "stopper," hop crop prices) - Rural/class humor (the farmer dismissing a pedestrian) - Domestic comedy (a woman's pierced ears as outdated fashion) - Physical slapstick (boy fleeing farmer's dog) - Absurdist humor (the "blunderbuss" poem about a cat/gun incident) **Historical context:** These gentle gags reflect period preoccupations—fashion, rural life, domestic relations—with minimal sophistication. The humor relies on puns and situational comedy rather than political commentary. **The advertisements** promote typical Victorian products: meat extract, cocoa, shorthand courses, bicycles, and travel bags—suggesting middle-class readership. This appears to be a filler page in a satirical magazine, prioritizing revenue from advertisements over substantive editorial content.
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It is by tne Judicious use of such articlcs of dict that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease, Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating Sround ts ready to attack wherever there faa weak point. We tay escape many a fatal ehaft by Keeping ourselves well fort ‘with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.—" Civi? Service Gasette.™ ‘Made simply with boiling water or milk, Sold only in half pound tins, by Grocers, labelied thus: JAMES EPPS & Co., Homcopathic Chemists, London, England, CALLUP NOVELTY WORKS. ‘W.P. VAM SILB, Proprlster, roa ven, exras quarry, TROY, N. ¥., suunerncrunens oF FRADE wks Lapis’ AND GENTS’ LIEN COLLARS AND COFFS. Reston, 48 Sommer Siret, DalUmore, 34 Sharp Street, nade, 10 & Parvum Sy New York, 8 Groene St, OVERTON, Established 1965. WILLIAM ROEMER, ‘MANUPACTURER OF Tonks and Traveling Bags, No. 82 Fifth Avenue, Corner 14th Street, NEW YORK. “THE NEW SHORT CUT TO SHORTHAND, i 22 For Circular, , Syracuse, N.Y. HIGHEST GRADE ONLY. 2 COLUMBIA Bicyoles, Tricycles, bs Tandems, Safetles. Catalogue free. POPE MFG. CO., % Boston, New York, Chicago, A FEW SMILES. Sign of the Maltese cross—When the kitten scratches you,—Cleveland Sun, The man with a cork leg is more noted as a stopper than a goer.—Glens Falls Republican, The hop crop in New York {s small and prices will | probably take a jump.— Pittsburg Chronicle. Telegraph. It is a mistake to suppose that worth makes the man. Worth makes the woman ; Poole makes the man.—Life, Ainnie—It is no longer fashionable to have the jerced.” Mamie—"*So 1 suppose you won't be called upon any more to sing, will you?"— Terre Haute Express, Stranger —"" Did a pedestrian pass this way a few minutes ago?” Granger —"' No, sor. I've been right outer this tater patch’ fer more'n a nower an’ notter blamed thing has passed ‘cept one solitary man, an’ he was trampin’ erlong on foot."— Time. About the only time the small boy thinks of traveling for the benefit of his health is when he is in a farmer's apple-orchard and sees the owner and a cross dog ap- proaching. Then he travels. He would find it very unhealthy if he didn't.—Norristown Herald. There's a big blunderbuss at the window ; ‘There’s a cat on the back-yard fence ; ‘There's a shot ; there's a squall, A long caterwaul, And then—there is silence intense. —Washington Capital, If enterprise, progress, business-judgment, and mer- cantile honor are concentrated in any firm in'the piano- manufacturing business, that firm is Sohmer & Co. Having commenced business but a decade of years ago, the name of Sohmer is to-day a household word in every city and town in the country where music is loved and cultivated, In fact, so well established is the name of Sohmer, that, in nine cases out of ten, uncon- sciously, as it were, it is followed in the mind by the word “piano, TOO HIGH. It is the fault of young w grandiose style of expression. rebuked in the following in sazo Traveler: ‘The new reporter, a young man whose graduating essay, entitled "* The Unseen Forces of Moral Philoso- phy," had been highly complimented by the professor of botany, took a seat near the city editor's desk. ‘I am delighted,” said he, speaking to the city editor, “*to think that I Rave so easily and with so little delay found the work for which Tam so well fitted. How do you like my sketch, ‘ Walraven St, Boirre'?” “Te is magnificent,” the city editor answered, as he took out a manuscript. Your diction is delightful and your style is captivating ; and in nearly every line there is a gentle but strong rebuke to the blunt and common- place writer.” “My dear sir,” rs to affect a florid, tendency is wittily nt taken from the Arkan- -xclaimed the reporter, ‘' you charm “For instance,” said the city editor, taking no notice of the reporter's’ enthusiasm, “* you say that Walraven located in this portion of the country.” “Yes; do you like the way I express it?” “Lam delighted. Some writers—old Pinkney out there, for instance—would have said that Walraven set- tled in this part of the count “Yes, I see. He doesn't understand rhetoric very well, does he?” “Oh, no; not at all. Here is another excellent point,” ‘said ‘the city editor, turning the leaves of the manuscript.‘ You say that Walraven went to a hard- ware establishment and procured a rifle.” “That's good, isn't it?” “First-class. ' Old Pinkney would have said that he went to a hardware store and bought a rifle.” that's because he is rather low in his manner of ex- pression, isn’t it?” “‘Assuredly, And again, you say that Walraven par- took of refresiiments.” ** How does that strike you?” “Way uy “ What would Pinkney have said?" Oh, in his vulgar way he would have said that Wal- raven ate supper, or luncheon, or something of that $01 “"T wonder that he docs not learn better, reporter. “*Tt seems that he should. By the way, we cannot afford to use this sketch. It is too high for our readers.” * What must Ido with it?” “Bring it out in pamphlet form and sell it on the campus.” “That's a good idea ; I'll do it. and write something?” old Pinkney is covering the ground pretty ‘ou may go out to the county asylum, though.” ‘o write up the abuses of the institution 2” No: to stay there till we send for you. Good-bye.” said the Shall I go out now IN AN OFFICE BUILDING. HOTEL AS MUCH A NECI TY AS AN ELEVATOR. Wny AL- LOW YOUR MAIL TO BE HANDLED BY IRRESPONSIBLE "MESSENGERS WHEN THE U8. BONDED CARRIERS WILL DO IT REGULARLY AND t NOW IN ALL FIRST-CLASS BUILDINGS, apcnmse CHESTER. NY. Dr, Wiutsaw's Ixoiax Prix Orsruexr is the only sure cure for Piles ever discovered. It never fails to cure Old conte Cates of ong standing nage Cofinbury. Gieveland, 0, says: s'TBave found by experience that Dr, William’s Indian Pite Ointment gives immediate and permanent relict We have hundreds of such testimonials, “Do hot suffer an in- sant longer. Sold by druggists at soc. and $1 per bow WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING OOMPANY, Cleveland, Ohio STAR SPRING WATER. Saratoga Star Spring Water for sale in bottles and by the glass by all druggists, Saratoga, N. Y. 27 Ana steady wort right at home SO TRAN a Ne Didin WORLD. 1QUID GLUE Repairs Everything. pretnes Palace Cer Co, Mason Tame Ores & Faoe’Ca, and LEADING HOTELS. WwW YORK CIT’ BREVOORT HOUSE, virrt avENve (near Washington square) NEW YORK. Proprietor. EL GLENHAM. FIrTm AvEsUE (between 2ist and 2d streets) KEW TORK. N. B. Barry, Proprietor. GRAND UNION HOTEL, Qeroatre Guaxo Crareat, Deror. 420 8. 5 trom Orand Central Depot free. ee European Plan, ON SQUARE HOTEL & HOTEL DAM. UNION SQUARE and 15TH ST. Comer Broad wa: J.H. BRE and 29th Street, New York. LIN'& BRO., Proprietors” KEELER'S HOTEL, 3 and 23 Maines Taare, ALBANY. N. Y, ST, JAMES HOTEL, Utica, New York. SMITH & PATTEN, Proprietors. '§, GIL 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- tutes at a cost complete of 10 cents. Will not rot, neither wind nor thieves can move it. An oma- 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 Washtagtea Street, Bastoy, Pa, comicbooks.com