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This page contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's humor: **"A Triolet to the June-Bug"** mocks the insect's behavior—appearing in May (not June), bumping into things and bothering people. The "June-bug's Explanation" parodies pseudo-scientific excuses, blaming tiny "cranial nerves" and "ganglia" for the bug's annoying behavior. The satire targets those who use scientific jargon to excuse rudeness. **Other pieces** include: - A joke about a woman's "military air" (suggesting masculine behavior) - Irish immigrant humor (common in period publications, often condescending) - A racial caricature ("A Dead Give-Away") using offensive dialect - Satire on callous wealthy people ("A Flagrant Crime"—caring more about lawn damage than a hit child) - Social commentary on gambling and Chicago's reputation for vice The **Stepanoff cartoon** references a real Russian ballet instructor's teaching method using musical notation. The humor relies on ethnic stereotypes, class mockery, and puns—standard for 1880s-90s American satire magazines, though many references and jokes now read as dated or offensive.

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T IS the worthy June-bug, Who always comes in May To thump the ceiling with his mug, As pugilist the walls to slug, In maiden’s hair to nestle snug, With none to say him nay, Such is the worthy June-bu; Who always comes in May. THE JUNE-BUG'S EXPLANATION, Without an invitation My ‘blickpunkt” And bruise my poor old battered And my ‘awareness’ seems to me far beyond recall ; n? While those important ‘ ganglion cells* You'll scarcely find at all, ery small, head On walls without cessa It’s all because I have too s Cerebral excitation. “And so I bump into a house Without an invitation And bruise my poor old battered head On walls without cessation ; And all because I have too slig Cerebral excitation.” YE SUMMER GIRL. ‘THAT damsel over yonder has quite a military air.” Elninently_ pro} gagements last summer. COME TO HIM WHO Watts ASSEMBLYMAN O" ly come to Ameriky did Oi come over in the saloon ? the sicond cabin? Naw; but Oi come over in the steerage !” ‘Teddy ; befure yez had captured the votes av the ‘steenth war-rd.” CTLY. “What makes me bump into a house ‘* Because my ‘cranial nerves’ are dull, . She participated in no less than fifteen en- STILL SMALL VOICE (from the gallery)—" Hur thot wuz a long toime, 2 I going to do? I can’t get along witho energico A DEAD GIVE-AWAY. “And so I've caught you at my hen-coop re de Lawd, sah, dis am de Derry first time yo" ebber cotched me, suah !” AN OLD STYLE. SHE artless young woman is the latest. styl Bleecker of New York “Aw!” replied Lord. Bilgewater of London; “my impwession is that the ‘eartless young woman has been in style evah since I can we- membah, doncher know.” A FLAGRANT CRIME. Mike (to the master of the house) —" May it pl man just druv into the yard and run over a little boy, sor.” Mr. Highlaw —" Poor litle fellow! You must take him to the hos- pital and have him well cared for.” AMike—"And he run one of his wheels on the lawn, sor.” Mr. Hightaw —"The wretch! Send for an officer. Such culpable carelessness must be punished.” “: a * remarked young yer ‘honor, the coal- A HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR. HE USED to play the races, ‘That's why he looks so grim: Ile finds, now he retraces, ‘That they were playing him, ACCOMMODATIONS ELSEWHERE. St. Peter (to Chicago arrival) —* do you see that sign over itizens, whin Oi first there?” i come over aven in Chicago spirit—“*No smoking,’ ch? Well, that’s great! What smoke.” St. Peter —" You will find all you want at the—ah—other place.” “PIP you London. »; we had the BST stupidest kind of times there.” S\ Tay 2 aN SE ecaw, “Regular London Times, ev?" A WI 2 MAN. VE made money on Wall street.” Sed 7a). DOS oe aE ANS Ya * How 2” " AS | way Her toon The RS = ae oR a STEPANOFF ON DANCING. “Yep. Always M. Stepanoff.a dancer of the Moscow and St. Petersburg operas, has invente | a metho for teaching ballet-dancing, his method being, he asserts, as cetlated the other CY W.understand as the notes in muse. Beto al We should like to be permitted to offer the above to the foreign gentleman of the ridiculously way. ment on his method, whereby the pupils can actually learn the steps of the dance from the accompar ‘opriate name, ay an improve. x music. comicbooks.com |