Judge, 1890-03-15 · page 3 of 16
Judge — March 15, 1890 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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The page contains several brief satirical commentary pieces rather than a single cartoon. The main illustration titled "A Black Lie" depicts what appears to be a domestic scene with figures in formal dress. The text pieces mock various public figures and events: references to promises about world's fairs at Cumberland Gap, Prince Bismarck's dishonesty, Ben Butler's character flaws, and editorial practices. One section discusses Russian government sensitivity about reports of Siberian outrages—likely referencing Tsarist suppression of dissent. "A Change of Locality" appears to be a brief humorous exchange about someone named Dick Ravers moving to the Bowery. Without clearer image resolution of the main illustration or more specific datelines, precise identification of which events or individuals are targeted remains difficult, though the tone is characteristic of Judge's 19th-century political satire.
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A BLACK LIE, t (who has been dr ]F PROMISES to pay were money there would be a world’s fair at Cumberland Gap. BISMARCK once said, “I lie occasionally myself.” ‘That is an obvious untruth, because the prince never lied in his life. EN BUTLER has always had five eyes—one to see with, one with a perpetual wink to it, and three to the main chance. ? MEMBER the man that caught the bull by the tail? go and didn’t dare? Felt as if he had the world's fair—see ?—Chicago. N DISCUSSING the right of women to vote and make laws we must not for- get that in the beginning of the race Eve came in a good second. [71S probably not the case, as charged. that ladies go around with dogs in order to attract attention, We do not know why it isn’t, but it isn’t, eee Wanted to let HAT Mr, Cleveland said to Editor Jones, who formally nominated him for president—" Don’t shoot again, my son, until you get your gun loaded.” HINK OF DYING worth two hundred millions and going on the long jour- ney without a gripsack or a dime in your pocket. There is your equality, Mr. Agi- tator. HICAGO will do her best, and every American will wish her the utmost success; but a fair in New York in '93 would be what you might call a world’s fair, you know. 3 ae Miss Mittino— moved to the Bowery ? Miss Devon—" Impossible Miss Mittixc—"‘He has, OSSUTH is reported to have said that id you Ireland would some day become a state of the American union. We have had the impression at times that she was this card. several states already. I've read.” ged out by the boys to play his old end-man part in the Staten island minstrels, and has forgotten formance) —"Very sorry, Lydia; but I had to attend ‘a syndicate meeting at the Astor house and thought I never should get away. A CHANGE OF LOCALITY. new studio address while we were dancing, and he fished out It says ‘Simpson, Bowery, No. 112,347," as far as wash his face after the per- SO MANY reasons why we should not have the fair have presented themselves since we failed to get it that every New-Yorker shudders as over a narrow escape. WE LIKE the enterprise of G. Francis Train in trying to go arounc the world in sixty days; but, merciful heavens! there is the danger of his succeeding and coming back to talk about it, e. F 3OVERNMENT of Russia is so sensitive with regard to reports of outrages in Siberia, one wonders that it should not be slightly sensitive regarding the outrages them- selves, F ALL the editors who growl because other editors are given office not one has been known to refuse an office him- self, It is difficult to account for this. eee BRASS BAND in Pennsylvania is composed exclusively of prohibition- ists, and when the people of the locality want music they pay it a round sum to go off and blow in some other town. THE PERIL OF THE CZAR. [7 1S assumed by the Rev. Hugh Pente- cost that the czar's existence is a dis- grace to the civilization of this period. ‘As a naked proposition that seems just; but his majesty is between two forces, and justice would grind him as fine as injustice presently will. Let the czar decree justice and the minor part of the government of Russia would pronounce him a tyrant and threaten his life. There have been men who in such an emergency would do right regardless of the consequence to them- selves. That, indeed, would be the safer way; and the better, because it is better for even a czar to lose his life in a good cause than for thousands of men and women to be obliged to lose their lives and their honor in behalf of a government that does not deserve to be sustained. know that Dick Ravers had " though. I asked him for his comicbooks.com