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This page is primarily **advertising with brief satirical commentary**, typical of Judge magazine's format. ## The Satirical Bits: The short humor pieces mock contemporary society: an East Indian prince's extravagant Paris bed; Americans prioritizing baseball over church attendance; a man suffering seasickness from paying hotel bills for a large family; and Ben Butler (a controversial Reconstruction-era general) being sarcastically linked to war-mongering. The most substantial cartoon-style item criticizes **modern legislation** through a visual joke: a lawyer carries two identical books—one containing "laws passed winter before last," the other containing "repeals of the same laws passed last winter." This satirizes the inefficiency and contradictory nature of recent legislative sessions, suggesting laws are rapidly undone, making them pointless. ## Advertising Focus: The page is dominated by period product ads: Castoria (children's medicine), Armour's Beef Extract, Pillsbury flour, Consols tobacco, Pond's Extract (post-shaving treatment), Sohmer pianos, and Birch carriages. These reflect 1880s consumer goods and marketing strategies.

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An East Indian prince has lately had a bed made for him in Paris at a cost of $25,000. Its mattress is a huge musical box, and its canopy is supported by auto- matic figures that wave fans to cool the air. As the prince is completing other arrangements for keeping his cup of happiness full in the future, it is presumed that his subscription to the Blizzard is now on the way.— Oil City Blizzard. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, ‘When she was a Child. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. ‘When sho had Children, she gave them Castoria. Stranger —'* Just look at the crowds going along! I shouldn't think you could build churches enough to hold them all, Native—'* We can't. They're going to the ball-game."—Harvurd Lampoon. Aunt Kate was telling little Edith a fairy story in which a pringe figured.‘ But how did they know he was a prince?" asked Edith. "Oh, that was easy enough,” broke in Uncle George, ‘He probably had baccarat counters in his pockets." —Boston Transcript. BOKER'S BITTERS since 1828 acknowledged to be by far the best and finest Stomach Bitters made, wheth- er taken pure or with wines or liquors or other cordials. Extract t ac t of Baggins says it’s the man who pays summer hotel- bills for a large family who knows what it is to be sea- weet es ‘most economical “Stock” for. og Soups, oe sick.— Washington Post. One pound equals 6 pounds of prime lean Be Tecelpts showing gute of SSS SS = ARMOUR'S: EXTRACT 10 & in Soups and Sat Many June brides are going out with the tied.— Pittsburg Chronicle, ARMOUR & CO., Chicago. Nobody seems to know what the sealed orders are under which the Rush is going to Behring sea, That is because they were not decided upon at'a secret ses- sion of the senate,—Pailadelphia Inquirer. A woman in Missouri was shaved clean by li one day last week. That's just our luck. men have to go to the barber-shops and take our chances, —Detroit Free Press. It is unkind to couple the fact that Ben Butler owns a monopoly of the bunting business with his prophetic warning that we are soon to have another war,—St, Paul Pioneer Press, Mrs, Wixstow’s SooTiiNa Syrup for Children Teething ; soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and diarrha-a, “25 cents a bottie. We suppose the knight that comes when no man can work is a walking delegate.—Binghamton Leader, Ivy Poisoning, Bites and Stings, Prickly Heat, And Irritations of the Skin common in Summer are speedily relieved by Packer's Tar Soap. THE CELEBRATED ‘Are at present the Most Popular and weparal pease Warerooms, 149, 151, 153, 155 pay bros rar aw. -‘SOHMER & CO. Cwicaco, Tu., 236 State Street; Saw Francisco, Cat, Union Club Building ; St. Louts, Mo., 1522 Olive Street; Kansas Crry, Mo., 1123 Main Strect. DONT PAY EXTRAVAGANT PRICES.BUT SEND FOR CATALOGUES OF THE CELEGRATEC pGES— B BIRCH coetfianess gf POSITIVELY THE LARGESTASSORTMENT IN AMEPICA STABLISHED 1062 H JH.BIRCH, BURLINGTON NJ.U.S.A. 1862 a. J'« BARKER BRAND itn LINEN COLLARS ABSOLU JTELY BE ST. Send to The Eastman Company, Rochester, N. Yo / Sor a copy of “Through Europe with @ a Pp Z, Kodak: s or cherated, ) Sree by mail, ° It will perpetuate the pleasure } i} ath yy of your summer trip, Modern legislation is thus cleverly piped off by the Fliegende Blatter: Questioner (meeting a lawyer with two books of equal size, one under each arm) —"* What have you there?” “Laws passed winter before last.” “And in the other hi “Repeals of the same laws passed last winte And now the sweet girl graduate, In pride and brand-new gown, Comes forth in crowds to agitate Each quaint old college town. She knows she's just the sweetest thing ‘Of this season of the year, And expects to make the whole world ring With “ Woman and her sphere.” But let us forward look, perchance Five years—that ought to do— sa She's cutting down dear Willie's pants To fit the other two. go Times, —vUsE— «xo, sie ner, wo td ten ng oi- | PILLSBURY’S BEST FLOUR still her class with a love of nature, ** which of the sea- : atte sons do you like best? Johnny may answer.” And | and your bread will always be a ‘* wellspring of joy” in Johnny promptly answered, ‘* The base-ball season,"— | the family—light, sweet and wholesome, Washington Post. FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERS. Tt would be a great improvement upon the peeice shirt if the builder would put fewer cigar-pockets in ' front and fix one at the back of the collar to catch the ALLTOBACLO June-bugs in.— Philadelphia Times. --TOBACC! SOLS “see Wibble—* Well, they don't boil heretics in oil now- SMOKE NO OTHER. adays.” Wabble—* No; they merely roast them in Consolidated Clearette Co. religious papers.—/ndianapolis Journal. Ave. D& rothst.. NewYork. AFTER SHAVING 27.7" cooune POND’S EXTRACT. DOES NOT SMART NOR STING REDUCES REDNESS. CHECKS BLEEDING. JUST. AS IT REDUCES ANY INFLAMMATION, IT SENDS BACK THE BLOOD WHICH THE RASPING OF THE RAZOR HAS DRAWN. NEAR THE SURFACE, SO LEAVES THE FACE WHITE, SOFT AND SMOOTH, WITHOUT THE SHININESS CAUSED BY OTHER LOTIONS. FOR THIS PURPOSE FAR SUPERIOR TO BAY RUM, COLOGNE OR PER- FUMED WATER. BEST BARBERS USE IT. YOU HAVE ABOTTLE. WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT? ~ WHEN PURCHASING, ACCEPT POND’S EXTRACT ONLY. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES, PROBABLY WORTHLESS. POND’S EXTRACT CO., NEW YORK AND LONDON. comicbooks.com, (