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This page contains several satirical pieces about late 19th-century American politics and society. **Top cartoon** depicts surveyors or engineers using theodolites, likely satirizing professional reformers or their methods. **"Pre-Empted"** mocks domestic relations, showing a wife confronting her husband about a woman's presence, with wordplay on "silver wedding eve." **"Woman's Right to Fame"** discusses Mr. Stanley and his wife's relationship to his fame—criticizing how married women cannot claim independent recognition. This reflects contemporary debates about women's legal status and identity within marriage. **"Fine Arts"** features a grotesque caricature labeled "Decorations—All hand-work," though the specific target is unclear. **Lower cartoon** shows figures at a dock discussing a "life-preserver," apparently satirizing maritime fraud or shipping scandals of the period. The page reflects Gilded Age concerns: professional ethics, gender roles, and commercial dishonesty.

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AND THIS is the Flower that blooms over the garden-wall of politics, is it? Pah! —/ones. *¢GATH™ says Arthur Pue Gorman reminds him of Aaron Burr, Arthur! have you, too, been trying to shoot some- body? [8 SPEAKING of the: first Napoleon as a parvenu the kaiser aims a blow at all of the first families, including Adam's and his own, ‘THERE WERE no poems in the late Saratoga disturbance. John Cochrane was not there, and the prairie-chickens were out of voice, eee ‘THE DEMOCRACY went to Saratoga for Flower and brought back dough. This is what a member of the famous Albany phalanx, who was there, has to report. oasis WE SHOULD encourage professional reformers, because they have much spare time and there are lots of men so shif'less that they don’t attend to their own busi- FOUND. ness. Contractor's inspector —""Is there a man named Crooley on the work here?” : ] rane : GANG-MAN —"" They is. THE GENTLENESS of Mr. “The” f tl Inspector —* Do you know him?” Allen will not allow bis to carry bis ti i Ganc-Man —**Oi do, He's a frind that niver tur-rned ‘i ; Fi 4 } his back on me yit.”” pistol. His weapon: is an ordinary cigar, INSPECTOR ——** Where can I find him?" the lighted end of which he deftly places | ‘ { SANG-MAN—"' Right ferninsht yez, sor.” in his adversary’s eye. UGH! ‘TAMMANY SAT in the late Democratic convention without opposition. Things have at times been very different. Asa‘‘reformer” Mr. Tilden repudiated Tammany, and Mr. Cleveland hated it. Several years ago Tammany rebelled, and so beat Lucius Robinson. Doubtless the “counties " have the same disposition now, but they have dwindled away, along with Mozart and the various other halls, and- their opposition is but slightly feared. Tammany gocs on forever, and the Saratoga ticket is of and for Tammany, with the glory thereof, and the perquisites if there are any. The kings are Grant, Croker, Gilroy, Cockran, and men of their kind, They are likewise big Injuns, PRE EMETED: and wear their war- Miss GaLLoway —"‘ Why, somebody ’s here! Is that you, papa?” paint from sun to sun Mr. GaLLoway—'Certain, You see it's our silver weddin’-eve, Becky, an’ your mother and through many an’ me thought we was entitled to the close-quarter teety-teet for jest once.” moons. WOMAN'S RIGHT TO FAME. R. STANLEY says his wife is sacred to him, and she shall never publish a book for fear she will get fame or notoriety. This looks selfish, but it is natural to man, as Miss Anthony might remark; and again the lady in question has never had a desire to be conspicuous except as the light of her husband's fame has shone upon her. If, however, a woman is not married she may be per- mitted something of the fame which belongs to her, as that may be a necessary penalty of her successful effort to makea living. We might even say that un- married as well as married women are sacred, and therefore they should modestly starve to death; but perhaps Henry is not prepared to go as far as that, though it is evident ah thathe has not followed the ON AN OCEAN GREYHOUND. logic of his great thought Tisrait Ganen (from Wate: Cornea overs Why clone heard FIN to its legitimate conclu- someé o' the folks as sayin’ that this here boat was a-goin’ to bust her record this Decorations — All hand-work. sion, trip, an’ you jest bet I'm goin to be ready fer her when she goes comicbooks.co