Judge, 1892-10-01 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 1, 1892 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* magazine contains several brief satirical commentary pieces alongside illustrations. The main cartoon titled "KNOCKED OUT" depicts a druggist selling soda-water tickets as a scheme—a jab at commercial deception. Other items mock various figures: Sullivan and Cleveland (likely political references), a farmer advocating fence removal between properties, a Moroccan sultan offering money for rebels' heads, and Jacob Astor's invented "automatic coal-feeder." A piece titled "QUEER WORLD" questions whether Corbett's potential presidential candidacy would be appropriate given his involvement in murder cases, suggesting contemporary debate about a boxer's (likely James J. Corbett) fitness for office. The cartoons employ exaggeration and irony to critique commercial fraud, political ambitions of celebrities, and social hypocrisy of the era.
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NO SOUND can awake Mr. Sullivan or Mr. Cleveland to glory again. ose [F HOME is where the heart is there are men and women who are living in the ward next to the one they occupy. ovr COMPLIMENTS and best wishes to John Jacob Astor. He has invented an automatic road-cleaner. 'HE FARMER who believes in free. trade ‘ought to pull down the fence between his corn-field and his neighbor's pasture-lot. were — THE OPPONENT of the black man Dixon in 3 $48 ¥ the late argument at New Orleans is so NAG § 83 Noa = frightened with regard to the force bill thathe — “ A eB can’t sing. HE SULTAN of Morocco offers eight dol- lars apiece for the heads of certain rebels. Very few men would want to lose their heads for such small money as that. ee: 4e MB: BRICE inquired, when he heard that his chief was dining with Croker and Murphy, “Where do I come in?” and the reply was prompt and interesting—" You don’t; you stay out.” AN ENGINEER calculates that the force of Lf one of Sullivan’s right-hand blows is equal KNOCKED OUT. to the speed of a freight train. We should also NTERPRISING DRUGGIST—"* Here's a card, madam. Each time you buy something I'll punch it. like the size of it. Is it as small asa piece of are punched you get five soda-water tickets free.” aie Lead MADAM—" That's a fine idea. I'll take two dollars’ worth of postage-stamps now.” KEPT HIS WORD. MR. CALLICOTT of the Albany 7imes-Union has now removed his shirt and thrown off his suspenders in his zeal for Cleveland, and is perspiring at every pore. But he must stop there. He must retain his dignified composure. Sra ATION in cases of death by cholera is an argument for cremation in general. What is more putrid and horrible than the ground of a cemetery, and what right has a dead man against the health of the man who is living? haar T DID NOT take hours of guessing to get at the meaning of Whittier’s verses, and the meaning was quite as exalted and noble as that of Mr. Browning, But most people like best that which they have to search for, and there surely are worse things than conundrums. QUEER WORLD. JF MR. CORBETT had won his victory some time ago he might have been somebody's nominee for president, but we dare say 'o6 will be time enough for him. Meanwhile he will be coddled until every decent man and woman is nauseated, and gazed at more than the prize bull at the county fair. Perhaps that is fame, but the fame of the man who does murder is just as good. . PAssexcer—"'I thought you said we could get across,” Driver —'* Well, we did, didn’t we 7” comicbooks.com