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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains brief satirical commentary on contemporary figures and events, typical of Judge's "Hum of the Court" column. **Key references:** - **McKinley**: The strawberry anecdote blames President McKinley for high prices, reflecting anti-McKinley sentiment - **W. Chandler**: A political figure allegedly involved in New Hampshire political manipulation - **Jay Gould**: The wealthy industrialist is mocked for his austere lifestyle despite vast wealth - **Duke of Bedford**: Criticized for suicide despite riches, suggesting money cannot buy happiness - **Bartholdi's Liberty**: Satirizes proposals to add commercial advertisements to the Statue of Liberty - **Air-ship**: Jokes about an aviation exhibition at the World's Fair (likely 1893 Chicago fair), predicting stock prices will skyrocket The cartoons show domestic and business scenes. The satire's point: wealth and status don't guarantee contentment or moral virtue; politicians are corrupt; commercialism is invading everything.

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HUM OF THE COURT. MBS. JOSH MANN was Mrs. Hamilton solely by brevet. HERE will not be the old ambition to,make American history, now that George Bancroft is dead. HE San Francisco Wasp is well edited, and there is a great deal of activity at its business end. How doth the little busy asf’ It's getting rich, think we. E DO NOT believe that Mr. W. Chandler meant to steal the state of New Hampshire, as intimated. What he wanted was to provide against its secession, A REPORTER recently saw a dozen strawberries, the price of which was three dollars and fifty cents. That that perfidious McKinley should ever have been born! ALAKAUA would have been a greater king if he had had mere money; but he lived as far beyond his income as he possibly could. He was black, but he was ambitious. HE. CZAR of Russia has another crime to answer for. We charge him with the fact that his subjects failed to appreciate the music of A. Shaw, our whistling woman. AY GOULD goes to bed every night at ten o'clock, and drinks neither tea nor coffee. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and have to do and deny himself these things? HEN PEOPLE can get their sermons by telephone there may be fewer churches; but there must always be one room for the church-choir to do its singing and quarreling and courting in. T. CLAIR MCKELWAY of the Brooklyn Eagle speaks rebukingly of “ the vapidities of fibula and tibia in lieu of the drama.” It will be observed that the gentleman is something of a kicker himself. a G “FILLING A LONG-FELT WANT,” EVA HAMILTON should never answer a question till she has read back three lines to find what she previously remarked, because corrugation in testimony cannot be smoothed down with a smile or a flat-iron. THE MAN from New Zealand who fights for a living is continually fracturing the law and the proprietics. We have nothing to prowess in the arena. say as to his disgusting It is sufficient to know that he must go. THE DUKE OF BEDFORD was one of the wealthiest men in England; yet he killed himself because of some cheap and vulgar illness and suffering that any tramp can have and die of. ‘The purchasing power of mere’money is not great. ‘THE PROPOSITION to put the stars and stripes in the uplifted hand of Bartholdi’s Liberty is not practical enough. Why not give her as well an illuminated advertisement bearing the legend “Take Mrs. Henslow’s soothing pills?” [0 LLOOK like that asked the condemned murderer, pointing to a picture of himself in one of the daily journals; and when they said he did he remarked, “Tell my counsel not to apply for a new trial. The sooner I'm dead the better I'll feel.” ning Sun, was continually remarking “When you're as old as Iam.” Wise man, pleased and subdued her if she had even E W. CHILDS cannot talk in public, but some little Christmas amounted in round and sonorous figures to twenty-five thou- sand dollars. Mr. Childs would be the prince of Christmas if he didn’t happen to be the prince all the year round, AT A SENATORIAL RECEPTION, Mr. Gattures (of Topeka) —"* Sally, I want yer t' know Mr." — LLUTES (in @ whisper) —"Don't call me Sally in public, Mr, GaLLuTES—"' Well, Sarah, then, ‘These women is darn p'tic'lar, Mr, Upjobns.”” HE AIR-SHIP is a success. Th: on exhibition at the world’s fair, previously being roofed over to prevent its getting away. ‘The stock of the company to which it belongs will be chained down ; otherwise it would go so high that it wouldn't get down till 1900. is to say, it will be put s¢] MEAN to say that your grammar is unconventional,” said Henry Guy Carleton the other day, slowly and dis- tinctly; and thereupon the man smote him without preface or interrogation-point or pause for reflection or refreshment. It was a fine illustration of two opposing methods of argument. RUINING THE BU! Mozexstern —"' How you feels dis morni Tis SOMEWHAT DELICATE CLERK—"'I vos ‘not kervite so vell.” Mozensterx—"'Ish dot so? Say, Abe: I vish you vould go oudside unt cough. You plows all der cobvebs ohf dot 1888 Khine-viné. comicbooks.com