Judge — December 20, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Bexnnano Gitian. Gurcony, Buiter. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year.or s2 numbers = $5.00 ‘One copy, six months. or 26 numbers - "2.50 One copy. for 13 weeks 135 Taclading the Cweistaas Juocr, FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS— To alt year THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (Jupce Burp Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th St., New York CRW e guarantee advertisers a larger circulation at cheaper rates than any other American satirical paper published. ¢ Jovan is for tale al Prentane's, 17 Avenue de 00; Paris, and by the Amer- upaper agency at 1s Kine William street, Strand, W. Loniton. S IT FAIR to punish all the people of Ireland for the carelessness of one woman? ary USTIN McCARTHY will lead his little army of deserters with con- siderable ability. see HE ISH - IRISH party is not to be trusted, one would think, as implicitly as the Irish-Irish party led by Mr. Parnell. CUBA HAS a doctor with a sure cure for yellow fever. Let him be guarded well. He might die of a sneeze or a carbuncle. A HITTLE succ plani a dangerous thing. g sun-flower seeds in the hope of r: ‘The farmer ising rainbows. ‘alliance is [7 HAS TAKEN congress many years to discover that the writer of a book has as much right to protection as the inventor of a mouse-trap. OYE PART of the president’s message shows the most amicable re- lations with foreign nations, and likewise between the president and Mr. Blaine. S IT NOT strange that Mr. Gladstone should not insist on the re- tirement of the prince of Wales because of his injudicious social amusements? ‘THE RECORD for 1890s in some respects startling. “It is remark- able,” says a recent letter, “how many people are dying this year who never died before.” +¢(CONSULT YOUR PURSE before buying Christmas presents,” says an advice- giver. Won't do in all cases. Lots of purses fail to give out the slightest in- MANY PEOPLE jin Kansas and Nebraska are in danger of starving. It is another case of McKinley. William fixed his tariff so that these suffering masses couldn't ny crops. SHORT SESSION of congress will be comparatively independent of inimediate con- sequences; but it must not omit a high appreci- ation of caution, courage and good sense. THE THIEF who got in Brigadier Mahone’s apartment was glad to get away with his life. Another moment and the brigadier would have cornered him and bought his vote for five dollars. HE WHITE and black farmers of the alliance in convention in Florida seceded from each other with mutual satisfaction and so showed again that there are as many grades in labor as in society. HE QUESTION is, “Ought our daughters to be dowried?"” There is no doubt of it. Then follows the equally important question, “ How shall we get the ne ion of that will prol k up the debating society. A FUTURE CRE&SUS. Rosexsures —"' Mein sohn, you vas tervendy-one to-day, unt I maigs you a bresent.” Istpor —"' Vell, vat vas it?” SHEEN —"'I dakes you into bartnerships.” Soin’ to fail nexd veek ?” s. Istpor (falling on his father’s neck) —"* Fader, dot-vas munificend !" HERE’S A HEAP O’ -TROUBLE. F IT 1S TRUE that Cleveland and Hill have made a deal whereby the former will get the nomination and the latter the senatorship, it still remains the fact that Hill will be benefited in his yearning for the presidency by having Cleveland beaten in this state and in the coun- try. If Grover were to be elected, the fact would be more patent than ever that New York has had the nomination long enough, and before ‘96 the claims of the great west will have to be respected. ‘Then if Flower is to be the candidate for governor, what becomes of Jones, the man with a conflagration in each eye? Then if Hill is to be the senator, how stall Smith Weed, who will be the deadly enemy of Hill as well as Cleveland, be placated? The leaders may patch up truces; but the rank and file, who manage the voting, are beyond control. When. we contemplate these things we sce the misfortune of victory, and accept defeat with a rest- fulness of soul that is slumber with the happiest of dreams. THE WORST INDIAN. F JUSTICE had been done Sitting Bull Uncle Sam would have saved millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of white men, Mercy is a good thing, but it breeds contempt in the mind of an Indian; and mercy to S. B. is the grossest of injustice to the tax-payers of this country. We do not say that this ugliest and most ungrateful of savages can be hanged now for old offenses; but he should be watched closely for some new one that will enable him to meet his Messiah before the latter's arrival here. LISH COMM t ON THE LATE ELECTIONS A slap in the face. (Reprinted from the London Funny comicbooks.com