Judge, 1889-12-14 · page 4 of 16
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This page from **Judge** (a 19th-century American satirical weekly) collects brief humorous observations styled as courtroom gossip. The main targets include: **Political/Social References:** - **Nellie Bly** (famous journalist): joke about her marriage prospects - **Cronin case**: likely Dr. Cronin's 1889 Chicago murder, contested whether victim committed suicide - **Horace Greeley's "Go West"**: mocking his famous 1865 advice to westward migrants - **Far West poverty**: commentary on economic hardship in western states **The Satire:** The cartoons and quips mock human absurdity—exaggeration in Chicago boasting, corporal punishment of editors, clerical vengeance, and class hypocrisy (a child noting richer families have better food). The tone is cynical, attacking pretense and celebrating frankness. **"Refreshing Frankness"** cartoon shows a child honestly stating poor families have nothing worth eating at home—satirizing polite society's concealment of class inequality. The page reflects Judge's formula: political commentary mixed with social observation and mild scandal, assuming educated, urban readership familiar with contemporary figures and events.
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156 HUM OF THE COURT. WHERE there's a will there's lowa—/. Ellen Foster. N AMIABLE male sheep may be mentioned as oleomargarine because he is a bogus butter. REPORTED that Nellie Bly on her return will marry." Let us she will get a real good man; otherwise the man will be forty dollars in Hoboken to kiss an aged woman against but in most cases the woman is willing to remit or pay the fine. MAN at Glens Falls claims to have killed ten thousand snakes in e He must have had ‘em so bad that each counted sev- hundred. $6 CHICAGO PEOPLE,” says the /nter-Ocean, “ never exaggerate, even when it comes to a world’s fair.” By George! that's the HE EVIDENCE for the defense in the Cronin case leaves the im- pression that the doctor committed suicide and then substituted another man’s for his own corpse. N EDITOR in Cameron, Miss., has been horsewhipped twice with- in two weeks, As he took his punishment meekly it is obvious that he didn’t get half enough of it. T IS-SAID that one hundred thousand persons in the far west will have to live on charity this winter. What was it Horace Greeley said—Go west and starve down with the country [7 1S DECIDED in Tennessee that a clergyman has a right to shoot the seducer of his daughter, But then that has been decided everywhere else, and the shooter needn't be a clergyman either. REFRESHING FRANKNESS. ON (at luncheon) —"* What's this?” RANCE has perhaps the best army in the world at this moment; but what is military glory in comparison with the crushing and most lamentable fact that pumpkin pie is totally unknown in France? MMA, aged five, asked her grandmother if God made the world, and of course the other question followed, “Who made God?” “don’t know,” was the frank reply.“ Well,” said Emma reflectiv “Tve talked with Robert” (who is four years old) “about it and he doesn’t know—and Robert has thought deeply on that subject.” THE REASON. Mamaa—" Gertie, don't make such a noise; you never smack your lips like that at home. Gertiz—"t Well, we never have anything at home to smack our lips over.” any white man for ten thousand dollars apiece, nd any black one for twice that money. Evidently Mr. Sullivan thinks the col an fights both bravely and dangerously. on Broadway reads, “Smith Forml mith family with Jones as a postscript, or Smith, formerly Jones, is a puz- aling question. ‘The sign ought to have a foot-note, A MURDERER in Missouri has been sentenced to ninety-three years in the peniten- tiary, and if he dies before his term expires that will be just as much a break of the law as if he were to break out in some other way. A SOLUTION that will take the black marks out of stamps already used is believed to be gradually making Prentiss Bailey, postmaster of Utica, a comfortably rich man, especially as the gentleman is an expert at book-keeping. 84 ANADA.” says the Hamilton Spectator, “is the freest country in any of all of the Americas.” The Spectator means “ freeziest.” of course. And yet it is rather {ree—for scoundrels bel to this side of the border. A FEYING-SHIP now being made in Buffalo will try to fly over Ningara Falls, Perhaps the barrel method of self-destruction is the best, because in the other case you are to break your neck before you get your drowning JERRY RUSK is said to have become a society man, spike-tail coat, chrysanthemum, and all; and in Wisconsin they say maliciously that he is the stackupestest man in the cabinet, and if he comes home without dirt on his boots and his pants in the legs of INFORMATION. the same they'll shoot him on si BoorrLack —"* Say, mister! yer have a picce o” glass in yer eye.” comicbooks.com