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This page from *Judge* (a late 19th-century American satirical weekly) collects brief humorous commentary on current events and social observations. **Key References:** - **Sir Gordon** (Cumming): A scandal involving a British aristocrat accused of cheating at cards, discussed in relation to suicide and his social standing - **President Arthur**: Satirizes his poker philosophy as applicable to broader life/business practices - **Balmaceda of Chile**: References the Chilean political leader, mocking his claimed serenity despite authoritarian actions - **Prince of Wales**: Critiques English class deference—a juror was rebuked for directly questioning royalty - **Illinois legislature/World's Fair**: Local political quarreling over funding the upcoming Chicago World's Columbian Exposition - **Kaiser**: Mocks Prussian military loyalty doctrine as absurdly extreme - **Italy/New Orleans**: References Italian-American tensions (likely the 1891 New Orleans lynching aftermath) - **Cornell hazing**: Documents college class violence over photograph privileges The illustrations provide visual humor complementing these topical jabs at politics, social hypocrisy, and contemporary absurdities.

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HUM OF THE COURT. SiR GORDON hadn‘t better shoot himself. It will be bet- ter for him to shoot the game and his old companions. NGENUITY in spelling ought to be encouraged. We have a card on which the original owner has written “ percinel bizness,” and are much impressed with its originality. RESIDENT ARTHUR said, “To win in cash and lose on credit is the great secret of successful poker-playing.”” ‘That is satire which applies nicely to a great many kinds of game. BALMACEDA of Chili says he has never lost his serenity and his conscience has never been disturbed. As smooth and sleek a villain, apparently, as ever became a dictator or cut a throat. IOHN RUSSELL YOUNG says Gordon Cumming comes from a better family " than Albert Edward does. There is a HAM AND EGGS. kind of faint praise that anathematizes to the point of utter destructiveness, KALAKAUA left personal effects to the amount of twenty-five hundred dollars. ‘The poor fellow didn’t have a chance to play cards for several weeks before his death, Hence, perhaps, his unsuspected accumulation, HERE ARE three sides to the Adirondack question, and one of them has to do with the wealthy avarice that would stake off the great wilderness against the poor man who happens to want a little hunting and fishing himself. JUROR who asked the prince of Wales a straight question was stared at as a curiosity. ‘The law in England has evidently come to be a great respecter of persons, no matter whether the persons are entitled to respect or not. HE HAD SEEN A HORSE-CAR, Guarp —** What did you pull the bell-cord fer?" Ti EGISLATURE of Illinois quarreled itself half to death over the question Mr, Greypack —“*'Cos I wanted t' git off, yer blamed fool’ how much to give the world’s fair. We do hope there will not be such a civil What d" yer spose? (Dreps into street.) war in Illinois over the great exhibition that it will be impossible to hold it. of suffering and pensions the dear old girl must have drawn, and how she must lament the failure of Italy to attack the United States. HAVING reached the age of nine days, the Mustrated American discovers that Ben Butler is too old and ought to move out and give his place to some younger man. The audacity of infancy is almost as great as its enormity of inexperience. THE KAISER says it is a soldier's duty to shoot his father if that is necessary to loyalty to the head of the government. If loyalty to the government really amounts to that the young man will presently. shoot himself to keep his jaws from wagging. E JUDGE from certain hysterical remarks in the Italian press that all that Italy wants is the burning of New Orleans and the hanging of most of her leading citizens; but it seems to us that there has been enough sacrifice of life already—just about, N ONE SCHOOL there has been a great row over the fact that strawberry shortcake was fed to the faculty exclu- sively; and recently the freshmen and sophomore classes of Cornell nearly killed cach other because the latter wanted their picture taken, On what slight things depend the des- tinies of this republic. THE ORDERLY WOMAN insists on putting things away, . ; and when she wants them they cannot be found. We IN PARTNERSHIP, remember one woman who put her shroud away, and when ‘And do you really love me as much as you say, Henry?” she was about to die it couldn't be discovered; so she let Why, darling "—— loose her temper, refused to go off, and is living to this day. Well, then, don’t borrow any more money from papa. He's charging it up ‘ . against what he'll’ give me when we're married.” Let this be a warning. é CONTEMPORARY, speaking of a contemplated visit to Ireland by a noted man, says the man speaks Irish as well as English. Well, if he confines himself to that language during his visit he will be the lonesomest man in Ireland. THE CZAR says there was never a niilist plot with which Jews did not have more or less to do; but really if his majesty were to drive all nihilists out of Rus- sia he would have no subjects outside of the officers of the government. RS. POTTS of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is said to be the JUNE. JULY. AUGUST, widow of six crippled soldiers. What an amount The history of a man who follows the horse-races, as told by his feet. comicbooks.cpm