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This page from *Judge* contains satirical commentary on contemporary (late 19th-century) social and political figures. The "Hum of the Court" section offers brief witticisms on various topics and personalities. Key references include: - **Cleveland**: Likely President Grover Cleveland, mocked for a drowning incident - **General Early**: Confederate General Jubal Early, ridiculed for his involvement with the Louisiana lottery scheme (a notorious fraud) and his sensitivity to being confused with General Longstreet - **George Eliot and Émile Zola**: Literary figures discussed regarding women writers - **The Louisiana lottery**: A major contemporary scandal involving fraudulent schemes that prominently featured Confederate generals as figureheads to gain credibility The bottom cartoon "A Sudden Uprising" appears to depict African American figures in a satirical scene, reflecting the magazine's problematic racial attitudes typical of the era. The main humor targets political corruption (lottery schemes), celebrity vanity, and social pretension—standard satirical fare for *Judge*.

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184 HUM OF THE COURT. HE GLUTTON can never tell when he has enough, because he never has. THE USUAL mistake— One of the things one had rather somebody else had sai THERE ARE forty-one states besides the one known the lottery company. SeP ADIES, treat your L shoes tender! Helen Joy. in behalf of the small boy which is worthy of all ace ceptation. A MAN in Tophet said last week, cious ! there is no ice with- in a thousand miles and 1 feel as hot as if I were in New York.” Good gra- would be, Mrs, Oxford fooling with intoxicants CLEVELAND has sulliciently recovered from her narrow escape from drowning to say that she never had any experience of that kind. eeyyHat Ww Des cru D carries two watches. This may be tolerated; but when he wears three shoes a stop will be put to his foolish extravagance. AM JONES says he doesn’t believe God had dudes in contemplation when he made Adam; and if he had Sam Jones in view how sad that was too! ERNHARDT will not play here next fall; surgeons have not been able got in her kne WE ARE pleased to learn from the Pst sentiment of Rochester is on deck. flying at the pes E DO thi of equit: asks the editor of the Troy Press. as crucified nearly nineteen hundred years ago. so we apprehend that the ¢ her from the splinter that k that Colonel Shepard vecasionally s: might better be omitted; but then he occa that might be said, A SUDDEN Mk, Waatrnrs. Joan’ look fool-lookin’ mew! [ ebber seen, laik he knowed nuffin’, AT THE FIVE-O'CLOCK TEA. Mr. Dewar (who has been leaning against the alcohol lamp)—* How much better it if people would content themselves with refreshing tea instead of HE GREAT WOMEN of the age are largely noticeable for the persist- ency with which they re- fuse to give it. T IS very mean in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to speak of the duke of Or- Ieans as an ambitious fool. It has not been proved that the duke is ambitious. +6] DO NOT think much of George Eliot's nov- s Lady Colin Camp- That is to be lament- ed; but then she likes lit- erature and will doubtless give all possible encourage- ment to Mr. Zola. MAXY @ man who won't lie about his fishing does it about his summer garden, If he can't boast of the size and volume of is vegetables he has the satisfaction of lying about the cost of them, [15 PROPER for a lady to refuse to give her age ia court or any- where clse. True, she was present at the birth, but she is obviously an incompetent witness and can swear to nothing of the kind of her own knowledge. THE NEGRO question will be settled after death, and meanwhile the politicians and the religious bodies must worry along as best they can; but what a wise Providence there must be to be able to settle such a problem as that, ERHAPS the biggest fool of all is the man who thinks the same of you. You would be too modest of your own judgment to p that sentence on him; but his judgment is as free as the frost of win- ter, and presently it will return to nip him in his early bud. ENERAL EARLY flew into a passion last week because somebody mis- took him for General Longstreet. It may be mentioned that the in- sulted veteran is one of the two officers of the late confederacy who suffer their names to be used in connection with the Louisiana lottery as a means of inducing the credulous to invest and lose their money.—Detroit Free Press. General Early is extremely sensitive. Ever since the little affair of the Shenandoah valley he has been enthusiastic in only two things— his love of lotteries and his hatred of Philip Sheridan. UPRISING, Foxpiey —" Doan’, doan’ he? Yo" jess watch 'm, Want yo’ dinner, comicbooks.com