Judge, 1889-11-30 · page 13 of 18
Judge — November 30, 1889 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily advertisements (Scott's Emulsion, cigars, games, exercise equipment), but the main literary content is a humorous dialect poem titled "He Wanted to Know." The poem satirizes an inquisitive, philosophically-minded rural character (suggested by the dialectal spelling: "w'y," "wuz," "er") whose endless questioning about cosmic mysteries, theology, and neighborhood gossip prevents him from doing practical farmwork. His curiosity causes his crops to rot, cattle to die, and horses to sicken—a satirical commentary on impractical intellectualism or excessive philosophizing interfering with productive labor. The joke is straightforward: the character's abstract wondering about God, Adam's fall, and metaphysical questions is portrayed as foolish distraction from real-world responsibilities. It's a rural/urban class satire, mocking small-town curiosity as obstacle to competence. The dialect reinforces the target as working-class or rural reader ridicule.
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Down, Scien titic, Physical and Vocal Culture. | Address, No. M4 School, 9 East I4th Street, New York. | HE WANTED TO KNOW. He wanted to know how God made the worl’ | Out er nothin’ at all ; Wy He didn’ make it square, like a block or a brick, Stid er roun’, like a ball ; How it managed to stay held up in the air, An’ w'y it didn’t fall ; All sich kin’ er things, above an’ below, He wanted to know. He wanted to know An’ if the two fit; Who hit Billy Patterson over the head, If he ever got hit; An’ where Moses wuz w’en the candie went out, An’ if others were lit; If he couldn’ find these out, w’y his cake wuz all dough, An’ he wanted to know. vho Cain had for a wife, An’ he wanted to know ‘bout original sin, An‘ about Adam's fall ; If the snake hopped aroun’ on the end of his tail Before doomed to crawl, An‘ w'at would hev happened if Adam hedn’ et The ol” apple at all ; ‘These ere kind er things seemed ter fill him ‘ith woe, ‘An’ he wanted to know. An’ he wanted to know w’y some folks wuz good An’ some folks wuz mean ; W’y some folks wuz middlin’ an’ some folks wuz fat ‘An’ some folks wuz lean, An’ some folks wuz very learned an’ wise An’ some folks der green ; All these kin’ er things they troubled him so That he wanted to know. An' so he fired conundrums aroun’, For he wanted to know ; An’ his nice crop er taters did rot in the groun’, An’ his cabbage wouldn't grow ; For it took so much time to ask questions like these, He'd no time to hoe ; He wanted to know if these things were so, Course he wanted to know. An’ his cattle they died an’ his horses grew sick, se they didn’t hev no hay; An’ his creditors pressed him to pay up his bills, But he'd no time to pay, For he had to go roun’ askin’ questions, you know, By night an’ by day, He'd no time to work, for they troubled him so, An’ he wanted to know. ‘An’ now in the poor-house he travels aroun’ In jest the same way, An’ asks the same questions right over ag’in, By night an’ by da But he hain’t foun’ no feller can answer ‘em yit, An’ he’s ol’ an’ he’s gray: But these same ol’ conundrums they trouble him so ‘That he still wants to know. SW. Foss in the Yankee Blade, “CABINET SEKT.” German champagne is the purest and best in the world—a select wine of the aristocracy. Depot, 87 Wall street. A brush between two artists should result in a draw. | —Chicago Tribune, ee | Who will be courageous enough to sit on the barbed- | wire trust ?—Kochester Herald. GOOD AND BAD PICTURES. 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