Judge — July 25, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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252 JUDGE e HUM OF THE COURT. HASNIBAL HAMLIN selected the day of his death with patriotic nicety, as did Adams and Jefferson. : LET THERE BE another murder of the Whitechapel kind and “ Frenchy's" innocence will be tolerably well established. OUR MURDERERS the less.in this world, anid the foolishness in opposition to electrocution ended. ‘There's your progress. HE CHEAPEST KIND of circus is the best. It is simple but ample and com- plete, and the only performers are a woman and a bug. AN LAMONT says the duties of a president's secretary are enough to kill a horse. Glad there are tougher animals than horses—aren't you, Danny? WE DON'T believe the story that Jay Gould’s only beverage is warm mitk— unless, to be sure, the milk is two-thirds water and on pressing occasions 2 three-thirds and a half. A WEDDING ina town near by was delayed three hours by the tardiness of the bride- groom. The young man will get over his tardiness presently —we can tell him that! THE KAISER having kissed his English cousins, it may be assumed that the relations between the Guelphs and Hoh- enzollerns are as peaceful on the surface as if there were no fam- LFLIPPANT. ily disturbance a little below. He—" You make sport of me, but when I go back to the city - . you will find this a dull place without me.” WE BEGIN to think from Sue—Oh, not ‘at all! Here is another that will quite take his long absence and si- lence that Henry W. Blair has been made envoy extraordinary to some outer portion of the universe. And shall we never hear that voice again? ‘THE LAW of chance” is an expression vigorously condemned by the Troy Press. And the Press is right. Mr. Depew's name should be begun with a capital letter and should be clipped of not the slightest syllable. ‘THE PEOPLE pay for electrocutions and it is their right to know the details of them. Their servants have no right to forbid this, any more than they have a right to resurrect the star chamber. The people can judge for themselves, moreover, as to what to read and what to let alone. ARDEN BROWN of Sing Sing is a good man; but these are not war times, and dead-lines Je eet oe mes ee hears Ghat W are such monstrous things that if he had shot anybody, as threatened, he might have been Brown's wife was dead, Poor fellow ! he must feel - the next occupant of the electric chair. In that case he would have had more information, but he his loss. I must go to the funeral Wednesday af- would have given out less of it. ternoon.”” BLInkiNs —"* No; Wednesday morning.” (COLONEL MCCLURE of the Philadelphia 7mes refuses to act on a world’s-fair committee Jenkins —"* Why, I was told in the afternoon.” because he thinks if he accepted the honor he wouldn't feel at liberty to criticise the exhibition. BLinkins —'* It was so originally intended, but Bey intended bat Well considered, colonel. And if you were on the committee, dear boy, the show would be so the afternoon base-ball game, temptingly. agonizingly open to criticism, you know. ieee tegeiea? athe tema —or I will find out for myself.” He did! . ! comicbooks.com