Judge — 1891 — page 52: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TRIED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Jones had been quite ill. One day the doctor called and found him in a bath-tub. “Why, man, are you crazy? You must be anxious to die!” “No, I ain't,” protested poor Jones; “but didn’t you say that your last medicine was to be taken in water?” “You are from Chicago, I take it,” said Jones to a traveler ‘with much voice. “Yes,” said the trav- eler, with emphasis, “yes, thank heaven! Escaped two days ago.” It presently transpired that he was from St. Louis. JUDGE'S ANNUAL. A SOLILOQUY. Miss ANTIQUE (at her foilet}—'* With all thy false I love thee still.” IT FAILED TO WORK FOR ONCE. * The natives of South Africa capture monkeys by boring holes in cocoanuts just large enough for the inserti and the monkey, after reaching in and grasping a handful, is too greedy to let it go, and is consequently captured "—From ** Travels in Africa.” CRITICISED THE INGRE- DIENTS. “Do you call that beef-stew?"” asked a customer of a waiter in a cheap restaurant just as he had nearly ruined his set of false teeth by biting on some substance of stony hardness. “Beef? Yes, sir; certainly, sir.” “Well, if it is, you needn't have ut in the horns,” was the tart re-, joinder. PREACHES, BUT NO PRACTICE. * Who is that frightfully-dressed woman that you just recognized? " “That is Madame Prim, editor of a fashionable magazine.” of a paw. The nut is then filled with sugar, comicbooks.com