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This page from Judge combines brief satirical commentaries with cartoons mocking contemporary issues (circa 1880s-90s). **Top cartoon** ("A Divided Gift"): A wealthy man (Tolliver) offers his wife either diamonds or a carriage; she requests an earring and dog-cart instead. The joke satirizes women's materialism and indecision among luxury goods. **Bottom cartoon** ("An Assistant Hugger"): A recently married woman scolds her husband for public affection, suggesting strict Victorian propriety even among newlyweds. **Text commentary** covers: Utah polygamy (statehood debate), Dom Pedro of Brazil, cleric Phillips Brooks, violence in Georgia, Brazilian president Fonseca, and Henry Morton Stanley's lecture refusals. The "Satisfied" item mocks an Irishman finding St. Patrick's Day violent—a crude ethnic stereotype. The page reflects Judge's typical approach: mixing social observation with class-conscious humor and period prejudices.

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582 HUM OF THE COURT. $+ ADMIT Utah!” shrieks the Albany 7#mes, organ of Governor Hill. Not yet, not yet! First let Utah admit that one wife is enough for one man. NO FRUIT this year. ‘The too-aspiring bud has been nipped in its slightest incipiency. The mosquito will flourish. He never shows his nose till the frost is gone. DOM PEDRO says he just asks one thing more— the privilege of dying in Brazil. Ab, well; that shows his democracy. Almost everybody wants to die who lives in Brazil. ¢4] BELIEVE in God,” says Phillips Brooks, “ be- cause this world is plain with him and a puzzle without him.” There is a sermon in that. What would atheists and unbelievers of all kinds do without God to quarrel over? FIVE MEN were killed near Americus, Ga,, in one day, as a result of what is called fighting the blind tiger. We are unacquainted with this kind of menag- erie, but perhaps the fact may suggest some new ideas regarding the race problem. A DIVIDED GIFT. ToLLiver —‘ Which shall it be, Ethel; the diamonds or a brougham? I can't give you both,” Mrs, Toutiver (Aesitatingty) —'1 think I'd like—well—one of the ear-rings and a dog-cart,” THE wisdom of giving great money to the few is manifest. Most persons, if they had a couple of hundred millions at their command, would move heaven and earth for a longer lease of life—and heaven and earth must be permitted to jog along in their accustomed grooves. GENERAL FONSECA, president of Brazil, is pronounced by a correspondent “a fatally sick man.” That seems to be the fate, according to most correspondents, of every man who seeks or has office. In most cases the fatally sick men outlive the correspondents, but we sup- pose that is a matter of accident. CRITICISING a portrait in a contemporary, the Sus says, “The nose is too large, the left cheek too heavy, the chin too thick, the person too obese; but it adds that “‘it is a fair portrait as things go.” We do not know exactly how things do go; but perhaps the Su means to say it is a good portrait of some other man. SATISFIED. Rarrerty (at six p.m.)—" Wid half th’ fre in th’ hoshpital, two Orangemen in the morgue, an’ ivery bone av me achin’, it’s th’ dacintest Parthrick's day since “sixty-wan,” HE FIGHT over the world’s fair was at one time su bitter that a compromise was looked for in the shape of a pream- ble that America had not been discovered, and a resolution thanking the late Mr. Columbus for his magnificent failure. RY STANLEY says he will not lecture this year. Henry has tried it twice before, and on those occasions he lectured even less than he will when he doesn’t try. It is Henry's business to do—not to tell how to do or how it was done. ARRIAGE by telephone has been pronounced valid. It might be well to have a little dignity attached to these ceremonies ; otherwise the time will come when a man will find himself married if he happens to arrange the ear-muff of a spinster’s grandmother, COUNTESS was found dead in London of starvation, hugging close to her emaciation a bag containing teen thousand dollars in gold. ‘The remains were gathered up with affectionate care, but we regret to learn that nobody knows what's become of the corpse. A N INVENTOR in this city recently killed himself with an invention at which he had worked fifteen y That sounds like ww story; but it is as old as the hills, the only AN ASSISTANT HUGGER. difference being that this inventor did his suiciding with DeELUANTY (recently married) —"* Doan’ be doin’ thot in public, darlint! Yex ‘Il hov great promptness and determination, th’ whole par-rk laughin’ at me wid yure foolin’.” comicbooks.com