Judge, 1891-10-31 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 31, 1891 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct pieces of satirical content: 1. **"One Way of Proposing"** (top): A seaside sketch mocking romantic proposals, with dialogue suggesting a woman asks a man to be a "light house keeper"—a crude visual pun on courtship and domestic servitude. 2. **"A Comedy in Three Acts"** (middle): A three-panel satirical sequence showing a small purse and crowd interaction, likely commenting on urban poverty or panhandling, with acts titled "Rats," and "A well-earned reward." 3. **"Mr. Sheehan and His Church"** (right): Commentary on a religious/political figure (appears to be related to church authority conflicts), discussing petitions, Governor Hill, and voting rights—likely referencing late-19th-century disputes over institutional power and democratic representation. The satirical tone targets social pretensions, urban conditions, and institutional authority.
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ONE WAY OF PROPOSING. Would you like to be a light house keeper 7” would you?" Yes.” Name the date.” * SOLDIER who wants to desert is of no good in a battle; so that he ought to join the enemy, as a matter of fair play, to give his old comrades a chance to shoot him and save them the pangs of waiting to see him hanged. THE FIRST DISPATCH said the City of Rome had been lost. The second dispatch said the lost vessel was another vessel. The third and last dispatch remarked that the vessel was no vessel at all, and then a large number of persons breathed freely for the first time in twelve hours. eee WHEN the Democratic national committee has its next meeting it will search under the table and in odd corners for H. Oelrichs; and presently the cham- bermaid will enter and say, with a toss of the head at this extraordinary economy, that she must have swept him into the dust-pan and thrown him out with the burnt matches. MR. SHEEHAN AND HIS CHURCH. EVERY MAN has the right of petition. It is a surly and outrageous authority that forbids that, and the more so if the authority is intrusted with the business of making laws. Certainly every church has the right, and it is both impudent and insulting to question it. Yet Mr. Sheehan, as speaker of the assembly, refused to permit the reading of a petition of several thousand members and clergymen of the Catholic church, and promptly buried it by turning it over to a committee, from whose hands it never emerged. Governor Hill knew what he was about when he A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS. advised Mr. Sheehan not to go on the ticket. The vote for and against the young Act 1" A small purse and a large crowd.” man will show that pretty accurately. é ay, Acr u.—"* Rats !" Act 111,—"' A well-earned reward.” { comicbooks.com |