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This is a **humor column** with brief satirical jabs at contemporary figures and events, plus standalone jokes. Key references include: **The Kaiser**: Mocks Germany's kaiser (likely Wilhelm II post-WWI) as mentally unstable, with a crude pun about his "fall" and "knee-capped" (injured legs). **Mrs. Navarro**: A society woman supposedly denying she'll write a book but will give lectures—satirizing wealthy women's pretensions to intellectual pursuits. **Rain-makers**: References actual con-artists of the era who claimed to create rain; the joke mocks farmers' perpetual complaints about weather. **Garfield reference**: Likely James A. Garfield (president assassinated 1881) and Don Piatt's changing political opinions. **The cartoons** show Victorian-era domestic scenes and social absurdities. The bottom illustration depicts "An Eye for Business"—a man trying to sell millinery to King Solomon, satirizing aggressive salesmanship and Jewish stereotypes typical of the period. Overall: **lighthearted social commentary** on vanity, hypocrisy, and commercial excess.

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352 "JUDGE HUM OF THE COURT. AY-FEVER is the most enjoyable of -all affictions when you get over it. HE KAISER was insane enough before he had his fall, and that, according to the Paris papers, knee-capped the climax." * ATTI, with a theatre of her own, finds sickness too expensive, and it makes her ill to think of the privilege she has sacrificed. N WYOMING bachelors are taxed two dollars a year: When luxury comes as cheap as that every man ought to live like a nabob. F SAM JONES is not intentionally a blasphemer he must be a fool— and certainly he is shrewd enough to'make money with his blasphemy. THE NEW lie about Mrs. Navar.o, that she would write a book, is denied; but we have yet to hear that she will not deliver a course of lectures. 23090202000 THE EDITOR of the Troy Press remarks solemnly that he wants his soreness of throat in his big toe. Does this man carry his ideas in his heels ? HE RAIN-MAKERS had better not succeed. If they do the farmers will kill them; and down in Kentucky there is a general impression . fits, 3 that there is far too much water already. EXTREMES AND AVERAGE. Mr. Fussy—"Good gracious, Maria! that hat of yours is as flat as a FOOLED. Pinte te mc : P Mus. Fussy—"" Never mind, John; I'll make up for it after the theatres deitaaine open. fevers A STORY in the Atchison Globe tells of a hive of bees that actually swarmed in a lady's corset. We omit the sickening details, merely adding that as the corset was hanging in a tree the lady is likely to recover. ‘0 THE BALD-HEADED— Recently the body of a woman who had been dead twenty years was disinterred, and it was found that the hair of her head had multi- plied itself so that a living person could not possibly carry it. THE EDITOR of the Sarafogian says it does excite him to look for sporting news in Colonel Shepard's paper and suddenly run up against a text from Isaiah, who never was an authority on horses. It is disappointing, but then the colonel’s paper occasionally gives a sporting extract or so from Mr. Balam. DO8N PIATT says he cried like a child when he heard of the death of Garfield. Recently he made up his mind that Garfield was a traitor to Rosecrans and a sneak as well, and he would give much to recall the overflow; but, as the poet hath remarked, *Confound those flies! Why can't they leave me alone the mill will never grind with the water that has passed. and get on that fly-paper?” A POLICEMAN in Pittsburg killed himself because of his infatuation for a woman not his wife. We cannot compliment his act too highly. Ordinarily it is the wife . that has to die; but here were true delicacy and nobility of soul, not to mention a re- € eam markable thoughtfulness in behalf of the public and the police department. | ron \ Room AN |EYE FOR BUSINESS. SPIGEL (ct the performance of “The Fall of Jerusalem")—"For heaven sake, Ike! ing Solomon and his dree hundred vifs, my dear! An oppurdunity of = alifetime. T vant to hand him a circular of igel's millinery and dry-goods emporium, “Ha! ha! How is this?" selling oud at a " is * ie comicbooks.com