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The main cartoon, titled "SOMETHING THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF," depicts two men in conversation. One says to the other: "I've got a piano up at my house, Henry" / "I've piano!" This appears to be a simple social satire about pretension or one-upmanship among wealthy Americans—a common Judge theme. The joke likely concerns material boasting or social climbing, though the specific humor is unclear without additional context. The surrounding text consists of brief satirical commentary on contemporary political and social issues, including critiques of Democratic Party rhetoric, commentary on Governor Hill's policies, and discussion of Chicago's municipal ambitions versus New York's established prominence. The page represents typical Judge content: lighthearted mockery of American social pretension and political figures.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. | ARKRLL. Brennan Gian. 1. M. Geacony, Editor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CAXADA, IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year, or 32 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 24 numbers - 2.50 One copy: forty weeks == 4.38 Including the Cwristuas Juoce. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—Teall for- ign countries in the postal union, ‘a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BuILDING), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street, New York. tee advertisers a larger circulati at cheaper rates than any other i paper published. by the Americ ? at Saarbach Switseriand. THE STATE FLOWER is the golden-rod—not Roswell P eee [7 MUST be said that Jones manufactured a large breeze—so large that it blew his own head off. THE GOULDS are usually successful in raising the wind, but occasion- ally the wind raises them. A PARVENU in royalty is a man whose family has not done as much killing as some other families. MAY be permitted to act as governor about five minutes, pro- vided he is not so unreasonable as to ask forten. 4 5 «6 REMARK by a Jerseyman on the mosquito in a lecture on the crea- tion—* By heaven! it should have been omitted. THERE 1S not'much of a change as to Gavernor Hill's wire-pulling. ‘The governor has put his wires under- xround, that is DURING his twenty years’ absence Colonel Olcott, theosophist, has grown a huge crop of whiskers and a smail one of ideas. O TAMMANY! But for George Jones and his Témes Mr. Tweed's John T. Hoffman might have been president of the United States. MSS. BISLAND in her late visit to Europe made several important discoveries, among others the gentle- man whom she proposes to marry. UPPRESSED DISPATCH from Buzzard’s bay to William C. Dewitt— “ Still fishing is best, William.” +6 JONES IS DUMB,” says a newspaper heading. Now, by St. Paul! in that kind of conversation Jones is the chief and the one most lovely. ** Who's tellin’ ye? “De pianer ” MASY.BRAVE WORDS are used by the Democratic party of this state to show how cowardly it is and how it doesn’t stand on the silver question. oo. THE ACTRESS no longer loses her diamonds. She says, dear, gen- erous thing! she is going to turn them into money with which to erect a hospital. HE REV. MR. MACQUEARY has joined the Universalists.. The punishment visited upon him by the Episcopalians convinces him that we get it as we go along. HE VARIOUS anecdotes that are being printed about Mr. Flower represent him in every instance as a chump. They couldn't be worse for the candidate if Governor Hitt had written them himself, SOMETHING THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. “* Hea'd ye got a pianer up at youah house, Tent E VERYTHING counts for our David. If Flower is successful he will get the credit of it. If Flower is whipped he will point to the evi- dence showing that he was sat upon by the Saratoga convention. eee THE QUARREL managed by the late Mr. Iago was not a circumstance to that of the late Saratoga convention which was industriously provoked and engineered by Governor Hill, who proposes to win or lose precisely as Mr. lago did. 'HE PRESIDENT did well to pardon General Sigel’s son; but the general insisted, until the young forger was worn out with sickness, that thefe should be no favor shown him. This chapter in the life of Sigel is as characteristic as it is sad; and who is there who fought with Sigel who has not suffered with him? THE OLD STORY. ‘THERE ARE more than eight hundred abandoned farms in Massa- chusetts. They are near railroads, and they can probably be made to produce more profitable crops than any new lands away out west. But men must have doubt and adventure in order to enjoy life, if they get nothing from them but malaria, starvation and death. This is what makes life worth living and death worth dyi ORTHODOXY IN CURES. FRANCES WILLARD looks upon the bichloride-of-gold cure of drunkenness as a malicious reflection on the prohibitionists. Never . mind, Frances. If it works well per- haps a generous public will provide a hospital for your party. After all, it would cost less, at the same time that it retired a multitude of feeble and un- productive cranks who exist merely to make a noise and oppose the party most in sympathy with temperance, common sense and good manners. LIBERTY FOR WEALTH. T IS AN American idea that one can do as he pleases as long as he behaves himself and pays for his amusement; so that Waldorf Astor has as much right to live permanently in Europe as here, notwithstanding the sneer that usually accompanies the criticism, “Well, America is good enough for me.” The eagle-bird at times has a mean little scream, as if to say that freedom has its limit all the same a rich man may select from his preferences just as if he were so humbly situated that he couldn't afford to’ gratify them. CORNERS AGAINST FAIR PLAY. DEACON WHITE means well Doubtless “Old Hutch” meant well. But millions out of the people in a deal on corn is illegitimate money and is necessarily made to the sacrifice of honest men and women who do not deserve such treatment. The crops this year are of exceeding undance, and yet in many localities families are obliged to pay the old prices for the old poor articles, That is not fair. The railroad companies and the grain speculators are responsible for it, and their guilt is not small, To benefit themselves they attempt corners on Providence, and it is a blessing that Providence occasionally resents their avarice and impu- dence. LET US BE HAPPY. AN ARTICLE jn Colonel Shepard’s paper shows that the people of this city couldn't have got the world’s fair anyhow. The work for it began in Chicago years before New York began to consider the subject, and the great west, including the Mississippi valley, favored Chicago through all its congressional representatives. Add to this the statement of the New York Evening Post, that hundreds of thousands of our citi- zens are glad that New York didn’t get the world’s fair, and we may con- gratulate ourselves on the ability with which we pushed aside an enterprise that we could in no possible way have secured, Let us end the a right here and give Chicago all the aid and comfort her vaultir deserves. comicbooks.com