Judge, 1892-04-02 · page 15 of 16
Judge — April 2, 1892 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, typical of late 19th-century magazines. However, it includes brief satirical items: **"Prophetic Words"** jokes about President Harrison and Andrew Carnegie. The humor references Harrison accepting a whisky gift from industrialist Carnegie during a hunting trip months earlier, then still having it—suggesting either the gift was absurdly large or Harrison was stingy enough to preserve it unusually long. **The "Crayon Portrait" joke** mocks amateur portrait painters: a vain man named Dashaway stopped caring about his appearance after having a portrait done, implying the artist's poor work destroyed his vanity. **The railroad anecdote** darkly jokes that Chicago's dangerous railroad crossings now endanger "both living and dead"—a coffin's funeral train was struck by an Alton engine. These brief items exemplify *Judge*'s humor: topical references to public figures, social commentary on amateur artists and dangerous industrialization, and morbid wit. The bulk of the page, however, consists of patent medicines, soap, and travel advertisements typical of the era.
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WAREHOUSE. and 17 BEEKMAN sTHHHT, Dae yace Sts 3538 and 7 East Houston srneer,( N#* ¥' 28th Edition, postpaid for asc. (or stamps). THE HUMAN HAIR, Why t Falls of Turns Grav. and the Remedy. By y PROF. HARLEY PARKER. F. R. A. S. ¢. K Lone & Co., 1013 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa. «Everyone ‘should read u A thenqum, Blank Book littlerbook. All wands xept ta Stoc%: and made *o order bY Findler & Wib |, 146 Nassau St.. New York. A funeral-train going out to the cemetery the other day was run down by an Alton engine and the “gentle man in the coffin” was for a moment in a world of danger. It has come at last. ‘The crossings of Chicago are dangerous for both living and dead.—Chicago Herald. Dryun—" Vere's a queer thing. ‘The newspapers say that President Harrison took a big flask of that whisky Carnegie gave him down int inia on his shooting-trip last week.” MWetun—"1 don't see any- thing queer about that.” Dryun— You don't? Why, Carnegie gave him that whisky over six months ago and there was only a fourteen-gallon keg of it Times. PROPHETIC WORDS. Senator Benton in his advocacy of a continental rail- way always alluded to the proposed road as “the high- way to India,” and the Union Pacific, the original transcontinental line, is the embodiment of his idea, for it is to-day the most direct route, makes the fastest time, and affords its patrons the utmost limit of luxu- rious traveling. *Dashaway used to be very proud and vain of his looks.” “*Yes."_ “He is not so now." “Oh, no; quite the opposite.” ‘What caused the change in him?" ‘He had a crayon portrait of himself made by an amateur artist."— Varmouth Register. (E. COUDRAY'S| |.gOUQUE7 | i CHoIs' | PRRPUME FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF DELICIOUS SCENT. — LATEST CREATION of B. COUDRAT in PARIS [ Uk RY ALL PHIACIPAL PERFUMERS, rita ee AN DSH TOR Oe PENNSYLVANIA TOURS! CALIFORNIA mo MEXICO. 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