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# "Judge" Page 331 Analysis This page contains political commentary and cartoons from Judge magazine's "Judge" section. The top cartoon titled "At Shelter Island" depicts two men and a woman in conversation, with accompanying dialogue about a woman named Skippy and marriage prospects—appearing to be social satire about courtship and relationships among the wealthy. The bottom cartoon, "An Excusable Pun," shows characters named Claudia and Amelia in a boat with a man, making jokes about a "rudder" and someone named Dick. This appears to be gentle domestic humor rather than political satire. The text blocks discuss various topics including Cleveland (likely President Grover Cleveland), capital punishment, Jimmy Haskel as a potential speaker, and commentary on the Louisiana lottery company and state governance. The overall page mixes social commentary with topical political critique typical of late-19th century Judge magazine content.

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PERHAPS it is true that Mr. Cleveland is losing flesh; and if he is saddened by it he can have it returned by putting a little n Mr. Dana's Suz. HEN the quarreling doctors in the Kemmler case come to execute each other we suspect they will choose the electrical method as the least liable to produce pain, HE VIOLENCE of Henry Watterson over the Lodge Dill has been succeeded by profound silence and melan- choly. The man looks like the blink-eyed goddess of despair. HE Courier-Journal welcomes Mr. Blaing into ranks of the free-traders. We recall the case of some soldiers who were carried into a foreign city in wooden horses the PAPER says Jimmy Husted will want to be speaker next year. Why! how singular tha We know that Jimmy has been anxious to retire to private life for the last fifty years. LABOR must not embarrass capital; but when you say that capital must not embarrass labor you discover that what is sauce for the gilded gander is the bitterest of herbs for the golden goose. YOUNG PARSON has been removed from his church for playing ball, These things are annoying; but when men lose their sacred money and confidence on a favorite ic is natural for them to be € 1 million dollars to kill Generally the cost is about a hundred thousand dollars, This seems unfair when it is remembered that it Gost the murderer the price of a hatchet to dispose of his victim. seat DID you catch?” said the brightest woman to Mr, Cleve- nd as the latter came in, tired and wet, from a day’ “Thunder,” replied the gentleman impressively that most of it came from the Democratic firm THAT GOOD FELLOW and excellert journalist, Franklin File, now calls himself Franklin Fyles, and has the family record to show for it; and we must say that nobody who ever knew him will object to his plural number thoug fishing. and the trouble ment.” he become a personal pronoun of many multitudes. BABYLON JS FALLEN. Louisiana lottery company cannot buy the United States of Amer- THe ica, and the passage by the house of the bill prohibiting its use of the AN EXCUSA\ Chavpta AMELIA—""Aren’t you getting along wel ho is somewhat out of it)— —"There goes Slippy's new boat. I wonder what he’s named her.” I can make out only the first two letters—I—O.” ‘That's the whole of it, I think. He hasn't paid for her yet.” mails is a vindication of the honor of the country that is itself beyond price. We have the beginning of the end of the most colossal system of robbery the world knows; and, as the JUDGE has pointed out, the Repub- lican party has shown that it has not only the ability to promise but to perform, Slavery is dead; mormonism is driven from its stronghold in Utah, and now the curse of the lottery is rapidly nearing its end. Sing! WHERE THE THING ROOSTS. = LODGE BILL, dead or alive, has had its effect in the minds of men who do not want honest elections, and, like the curses which have attended its consideration, it will come home to roost. If the dis- cussion does not accomplish the reform sought, the bill as a law will; and meanwhile there had better be, north as well as south, the utmost effort to give voters an open way to the polls and the largest freedom before the polls are opened and after they arc closed. If there is to be tyranny the government has as much right to it as the man of the shot-gun and the tyrant of the factory. H. BLE PUN. I wish this old boat had a rudder” Cravpia—"' Fairly; but T hate to see Dick waisting his time so,” comicbooks.com