Judge — January 21, 1893 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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W. J. Ament. Beswnano Giiiam. TM. Guecony, Faditor. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CANADA, IN ADVANCE One copy, one year, or s2 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months. or a6 numbers - 2:0 One copy. for 13 weexs = 35 Including the Cwarstuas Jupoe eIPTIONS— Teall for- 1 im the postal union, $5.4 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (JuDGE bumLDING), Cor. Fifth Ave. and 16th Street. New York. ER N'e guarantee advertisers a targer circulation than any other American satirt cal paper published. The Joven is for sale at Brentano's, 17 Avenue de lOpera, Paris: Smith, Ainslee & s England: at Saarbach's American’ Exchange, By Che BA lieth, Genera, Swwiteeriand. TO PUBLISHERS.—A1I the pictures in the Junge are copyrighted, and must not be reproduced without the permission of the proprietors. upon this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted Infringement OPERA BOUFFE—A French duel. THE STUFFERS of ballot-boxes in New Jersey are half as happy as if they were stuffed prophets. MB: CLE D isa large man, but he can’t spread himself suffi- ciently to be the boss of every Dem- ocratic legislature. [OGIC—The mugwumps believe that all political machines are bad, so they must needs build one of their own. R. CLEVELAND will find presently that even a man in his second term can afford to meddle with only his own business. ZAVEN KNOWS what would have become of this country if Carl Schurz had not come to us to revise and correct it, ERMAN SENTRIES are to load with blank cartridges hereafter, after the manner of diplomatists when they want to make a speech. DB: MCGLYNN has forgiven the Ro- man church and taken it back to his arms, wearing a smile of mingled com- placency and magnanimity SCOTT of the Chicago Herald won twenty-seven hats on the elec- tion, and we suspect that one of them belonged to Benny’s grandfather. HIS LAST Escarep convict R. be late t' me game er tenni THE CHURCH to McGlynn, after having been knocked out and abused like a pickpocket—"See here, Edward! can’t we compromise this thing somehow?” HERE ARE so many people in Canada who want to belong to the United States that we ought to have some trouble with England to enable them to do so. THE PRINCE OF WALES says that of all the vices he most hates drunkenness, and it must be admitted that his experience makes him a competent judge. Ti 1EY HAVE diamond-fiel in Idaho and new discoveries of gold in Colorado and New Mexit Presently we shall all be so rich that wealth won't be worth a cent. PEFFER SAYS the populists are able to do their own talki No- body ever disputed that. As to quantity they beat the world, and they don’t need the assistance of Mrs. Lease either. HE REV. her in Sunday. IR. BEST of Hamilton, Ontario, struck his wife and locked closet because she permitted a servant to peel potatoes on ‘That man being too good to live, he ought to starve to death Say, boss, let_ me go, will yer? THE OTHER SIDE OF IT. MUST TAKE into account the sufferings of generous million- aires. Every benefaction brings threatening letters because the writers were not the recipients of it. If a millionaire were to give his last dollar he would be cursed because he had not disposed of his wealth in some other way. THE MAYNARD OUTRAGE. JUDGE MAYNARD is retained because he is a reformed kleptomaniac. The governor says he has been an able judge and he cannot go be- hind the previous returns. Having escaped punishment, Maynard is to be continued because he escaped punishment. Well, there were some town elections which said he was unfit for office, There will presently be a state election which will bring in the same verdict. FIGHTS OF THE FACTIONS. THE WAR between the stalwarts and hall-breeds was bitter, lasted a good many years, and beat the Republican party a number of times. ‘The war begun by Grover Cleveland and the mugwumps against Hill and the snappers will be equally destructive of Democratic success, and, mark these words! notwithstanding the foolishness of the snappers last Febru- ary, Mr. Cleveland will go out of office with more than the unpopularity of John Tyler and Andrew Johnson. OUR SEVERAL CAESARS. HAT IS THE TRAINING necessary to an able and a respectable senator? Must the man have been a lawyer, and are there not lawyers enough at Washington? Perhaps he must needs have been a gentleman of leisure, of which, alas! we have too few. But is it unavoidable that he should not have been a practical busi- ness man and a practical politician? Why! if these things bring about ineligi- bilty for political honors what would have become of Grover Cleveland and Carl Schurz, who were given their honors by just such men? THE VULGAH SHOP. UR COMPLIMENTS to Edward Murphy, jr. He is a good politicis and as far as we know a good man. To be sure he is “in trade,” and it is not usual with the English, don’t-y’-knaw, to honor that kind of inferior person; but we occasionally make exceptions to that rule here, and they work very well, It was urged by the English Evening Post that John Wanamaker was not entitled to the postmaster. generalship because he was a mere tradesman, and it must be acknowledged that in his case the argu- ment was good; but we must not hold as a rule that success in business precludes success in politics, because that would shut out from official honors some of the best office-holders we have and make us to some extent a nation of snobs. “THE DECAY OF AMERICAN HUMOR.” Q)CE A WEEK the daily newspaper must have its article on the decay of American humor. It began to be printed about six months before there was any American humor to decay. It is a little out of place now, in view of the tremendous circulation of two or three weekly Ameri- can humorous papers and the adoption by nearly every newspaper and magazine of departments of American humor; but it is an old friend whose death would be greatly deplored. The mes of this city recently became quite melancholy over the decay of American humor, but took hope from the alleged fact that we can get some fun out of a new English humorous writer. The Times is-blawstedly English in hope and heart, and perhaps its melancholy is natural because, while the JUDGE'S circula tion is constantly going up—in fact there never was a time when Ameri- can humor was half as profitable as it is now—its circulation is constantly going down. But let us tell it something to soothe the American half of its excellent but hopeless gizzard— American humor circulates more largely in England than any other kind of humor, and a Mr. Henderson of London is getting rich from thirteen funny papers all of which are made up from advanced sheets of American humorous periodicals. Let us say further that the Judge Library, a monthly side-issue of the JUDGE, has a circulation all alone by itself of considerably over a hundred thou- sand copies. It is facts like these that revive the drooping heart and take the sting out of the decay and impending death of American humor. PLEA. Vi comicbooks.com