Judge, 1891-04-11 · page 4 of 16
Judge — April 11, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple brief satirical commentaries typical of Judge's "Hum of the Court" humor column: **Key targets include:** - **Mrs. Maybrick**: A real case referenced—the British woman imprisoned for allegedly poisoning her husband. Judge criticizes the injustice of her life sentence imposed by a judge deemed "insane," noting the legal system's slow corrections. - **General Sherman**: Southern resentment toward the Civil War general persists; Judge satirizes the South's refusal to forgive him, noting he died before learning of this lingering hatred. - **Senator Palmer**: A former Republican now backed by Democrats as presidential candidate—Judge mocks the emphasis on his past Republican affiliation as though it proves his worth. - **Tennyson**: The aging poet (mentioned as eighty-two) is encouraged to write for the Columbian Exposition, with backhanded praise suggesting his work would be equally "soporific" as his sleep poems. **The cartoons** illustrate upper-class leisure (yachting) and domestic situations, with sardonic captions mocking social pretension and human hypocrisy. The overall tone is cynical, dismissive commentary on politics, justice, and society.
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4 JUDGE HARDLY EVER. “Oh, ya-as, indeed ; whenever we stwike a wock, Miss Maud, this centre- board comes jumping up’; but then, good yachtsmen nevah allow their boats to HUM OF THE COURT. bout the suffering in Ireland—" Tim Healy has been smashed N ALL cases of suicide in this locality the probability is that the de- ceased is some other man. in the E ARE GLAD to sce a recipe for Boston baked beans, because now the cook will know what to avoid. N SELLING -her wardrobe Mrs. Navarro may have designs not re- motely connected with those of Mr. Worth. M®- MacQl RY has a right to his new church, but he must not pull down any old one to get a ready-made foundation for it. +4] SHALL not go to sheol by way of the senate,” See here, old m: ‘OLSTOT OBJ! ‘S to both marriage and tobacco, There is suc thing as being too dreadfully good. What's the matter with toba JV: RILEY, says a paper, * hotel, then with his sister. the bird? . MB: CARNEGIE amuses himself by writing of the disadvantages of poverty, and will next tell us, barring accident to his limbs, how to walk with a wooden leg. ys John M. Palmer. ! do you know of any shorter, speedier route? a co? ives on the wing, now at an Indianapolis Very well; what becomes of the rest of DON'T LET anybody suppose for a moment that in the present state of confusion in Irish affairs any contributions will be refused. Oh, dear, no—not at all, not at all! MUCH continues to be said Palmer as a presidential y the Democrats in behalf of Senator-clect andidate. It is urged with peculiar force persistence that he was once a Republican. M® TENNYSON about eighty-two years old, but a poem from him might put more life in the Columbian exhibition than it has had yet, even if it were as soporific as the one on sleep. THE DITOR of the Colum- bus Enguirer-Sun says again that the south will never forgive General Sherman. If the general had known that a few months ago we don’t be- lieve he would have wanted to die. an al THE IRISH OF IT. Detecate— 1 hope to see the day when all shall be equal, and one man as good as another.” Pat —"'So do 1, begorra! and thin Tl soon show Dennis MeCarthy I'm a better man than he is." LAW is suggested -obligins keepers of restaurants to “date their pies"—to mark on the crust the date of the pastry’s — Rocks !" construction ; but it seems to us that figures are made to do lying enough now. T TOOK an insane judge ten minutes to deliver a charge that sent Mrs. Maybrick to prison for life, and though the injustice is manifest it will take ten years to give the woman her freedom. I" IS VERY sad that those men should have been shot in New Orleans. We join our tears with those of the bereaved, meanw advising the latter between gushes to draw the loads from their own guns. PLON-PLON was delicately constituted. The noise of exploding gun- powder hurt his feelings, and the flashing of swords injured his eye- sight. Asa soldier he fought best in the bosom of his fam- ily. His widow might attest to his valor, and his son Victor was suc- cessfully driven from his home and_ his presence several years ago. se — fi . = itil sil [SS SS - \> THE CRITICISM WHICH TURNS HAIR GRAY. Mr. Struckny WiHttET (of Chicago, who has ordered respective portraits of himself and daughter)—"*If this one’s me, Callie, what's ig it's you, whar's th’ good favori comicbooks.com