Judge, 1890-05-24 · page 4 of 16
Judge — May 24, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several brief satirical items typical of Judge's commentary on contemporary issues: **Main cartoons:** - "An Impertinent Query" and "A Useless Invention" are domestic humor sketches with Irish-immigrant characters (indicated by dialect), depicting awkward social encounters and marital disputes—standard fare for the era. - "Self-Immolation" mocks a student seeking a "memory lesson," suggesting intellectual pretension and financial irresponsibility. **Satirical notes** reference: - Kemmler's execution (likely William Kemmler, early electrocution case), mocking euphemistic language - Kaiser Wilhelm II's contradictory speeches - Henry Morton Stanley's potential peerage - Theodore Thomas (conductor) marrying, improving his temperament - Ben Butler and Grover Cleveland (political figures being compared) - Anti-Chinese sentiment in America The page exemplifies Judge's mix of domestic humor and political commentary, targeting public figures, social hypocrisy, and contemporary events through brief quips and illustrations. Most references require historical knowledge to fully decode.
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AN IMPERTINENT QUERY. Hotty —"*Good-morning, auntie. Don't you remember me?" Apt Mitty —"*'Member yer? Reckin I do. You're th’ Widder Bemis's son, what used ter live here. How'd yer git yer eye knocked out?” HUM OF THE COURT. E THANK the Morld for its explanation that Kemmler is to die, not of electrocution, but circumlocution. HE KAISER makes many excellent speeches in which he tells what he didn’t mean to say in his previous ones. MB: McALLISTER writes of society as he found it, This is too mod~ est, Wardy. Of course there was no society until you made it. EMONT gets a little of his reward before he dies. thing public indebtedness begins to be liquidated onl As a general at the funeral. T ISN'T of much consequence, but the Troy Press calls Mr. Dana's attention to the fact that Ben Butler is fatter by twenty pounds than Grover Cleveland. A CH PAPER says that as they kill Chinamen in America it will be well to kill Americans in China. Oh, no, no!—see here, Johnny ! that's a very different thing. 1E to make Henry Stanley a lord is a misfit. Henry has been a king for a long time, and he is aching for no smaller honors. THE MARRIAGE of Theodore Thomas fills a long-felt want. The gentleman is not naturally amiable, and a little change in the wielding of authority will do him good. T LOOKS painfully as if the Claflin sisters were anxious to be outraged as to their personal character, and were inquiring with the utmost anx- iety when the outraging was going to begin. R,|, W: GILDER says he is going to smite this town hip and thigh with * a sonnet. We never did believe much in sonnets as weapons of Wouldn't it be better to use a feather? LTE HAS dipped his pen in fighting ink,” says the Rochester Demo- crat, speaking of Murat Halstead. Let us hope that he will omit his own countenance and give the enemy the black eye. ‘THE SUSPENSE of murderers under the electrocution law excites the sympathy of the Rochester Herald. It occurs to the Rochester Union—and the point is a capital one—that no good citizen is given notice of the precise time of A#s departure. war. A USELESS INVENTION. ooney —"* Yez can tek thot inshtalmint sewin'-machine back phere Oi Vought it would plaze yez.”” “It do not. I pit yure Sunday breeches in th’ top av it Mr. Rooney Mrs. Rooxe: lasht night, an’ sorra th’ patch it pit on thim in tin hours.” SELF-IMMOLATION, Drwsox—" Which way now, my boy?" Burtnety Drwson — “I'm going over to Professor Loosette’s to take my memory lesson. Great thing, you know.” I suppose so. While you are there, just ask the old man to punch you up a little on that tenner you borrowed last fall, will you?" comicbooks.com