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# Judge Magazine Page 620: Political & Social Satire This page collects brief satirical commentary on contemporary issues circa 1880s-1890s: **"Hum of the Court"** section offers quick jabs at political figures and social absurdities: Ohio's Democratic prospects, the French alliance with Russia (mocking romantic/dangerous entanglement), Brazilian governance, and testamentary law technicalities. **Key cartoons:** - **"A Tell-Tale Find"**: A domestic humor sketch where a child innocently reveals his father's infidelity by returning a hat left at a card party, exposing the father's lie about his whereabouts. - **"A Soliloquy"**: Features a man in a window, likely depicting personal introspection or urban loneliness. - **"A Slave to Business"**: Shows a banker absorbed in poker, satirizing financial men's gambling habits. The page also mocks Southern newspaper editors who fought publicly over print disputes, and references Russian censorship preventing Hamlet's performance due to regicide themes (ironically noting nihilists use actual bombs rather than theatrical plots). The satire targets hypocrisy, political incompetence, and social pretension typical of Gilded Age *Judge* humor.

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620 HUM OF THE COURT. Looks AS if Ohio wouldn't have any Democratic national candidates next year. RS, LANGTRY new plays. is experimenting with Did it ever occur to her to experiment with a good actress? WOMAN in this state has eloped three times with her husband's brother. There are some family ties that ought to be used for hanging purposes. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC had better et itseis ‘eto the arms of the Russian bear for only a temporary squeeze ; otherwise it may find itself loved to death. HE MAN who was struck by a train go- ing sixty miles an hour and not injured had better be loc Human life is too sacred to be endangered by his liberty. S IT BETTER for Brazil to have a dicta- tor or a government controlled by foreign- ers? We call for advice upon the great puzzle-solver known as the Philadelphia law- yer. T IS TRUE that Mr. Flower is a million- aire, but I must confess he is not f In point of fact he is quiet and re- served, and really 1 voted for him myself. WC. Dewitt. HEN SCOUNDRELS in Rome try to get revenge on living men by buming the corpses of dead women, there is a deprav- ity in foreign polities with which this country is not acquainted. THE REPORT that Alexandra is “dis- pleased” with Wales because of the lat- continued admiration for Lady Brooke somewhat lacks, we suspect, the emphasis inseparable from the situation. cd up. boyant. HE FLAG doesn’t want to push itself into anybody's affections; but when an- archists curse it for the protection it affords them they had better go back home or it may casually wind itself about their necks and cut off their excessive wind. s¢[T WAS THE WISH of the testator,” said the lawyer to the court, “to provide for his widow.” ‘That has nothing to do with the case,” said the court testily. “What we want to know is whether the testator dot- ted his i's and crossed his t's." Mr, Camtso—“' Good-morning, Bessie. Bessie — by the gate A TELL-TALE FIND. He t up yet. How's your papa this morning ?” lamma sent me over with your hat. You left it on the hitching-post out PY ter you left the card-party, anil she says the post ain't as liable to take cold as you are.” 1ILOQUY, J—" livin knows how A SLAVE TO BUSI WE DON'T KNOW who are the greatest fools in the world, but two southern editors recently quarreled in print and then fought out their little troubles in public. And, to cap the climax of their folly, they failed to hide their shame in a couple of graves. CARTER HARRISON says his paper, the Chicago Times, has come to s\ We have rarely seen a brief sentence which was so appareled with meaning and signifi- cance ; and yet it would be a curious thing if it were the mission of a newspaper to come to go. E SHALL MAKE ‘no prediction with regard to the coming struggle between Messrs, Sullivan and Slavin, contenting our- selves with the simple question to each, “ Dear sir, have you registered?” Sometimes in cases of this importance it is well to wait for the returns, MOPJESKA wanted to give “ Hamlet” in Russia, but was forbidden because Hamlet's father, the king, was killed in the play. ‘The government thought that would be too suggestive; but no nihilist will ever pour hot lead in the czar’s ear, it being the nihilist’s delight to use bombs and make noise enough to frighten his imperial majesty and everybody else beyond the line of danger. Cronus oF country covstxs—" Oh, Mrs. Bingo! why didn’t your husband come and spend New-year's with us?” Mrs. Bixco—" Poor John had to stay in the city, you know, on the first of the year, to balance up those dreadful accounts, Poor John, xs banker in a poker game, doing the balancing-up, comicbooks.com