Judge — June 3, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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THE TWO GENTLEMEN who ¢s- caped from Sing Sing prison jumped from the frying-pan into the river. OME SOCIETY MEN in St. Joseph, Missouri, formed themselves into a society for burgling, and succeeded very well until one of them was shot to death. Slumming is not unavoidably dangerous, but a fad can be too far. BOSTON MAN has been awarded damages to the amount of eighteen thousand dollars for the loss of aleg. We shudder to think of the damages in the case of one of those kicking women, even if she have two or three additional legs to stand on, HE SUCCEEDED. Tom —" Charlie said that he would try and ‘raise the wind’ to-day. L never heard any one get such a ‘ blowing up" as his father gave him to-lay.”” country would go to ruin if he did, but what is that in comparison with his royal comfort? POET LAUREATE. JOHN RUSKIN didn’t care to be poet laureate, and several genuine and very worthy poets did; soof course Mr. Ruskin got the honor. Perhaps Mr. Gladstone in making his selection felt the indifference affected by Mr. Ruskin when, in 1887, the latter casually wrote these lines : Fishes in the sea— Apples on the tree, What is it tome. Baby, whose they be? Mr. Swinburne and his contemporaries in verse may experience some slight chagrin; but, notwithstanding the honor conferred upon the title by Lord Tennyson, its littleness is more unbecoming to Mr. Ruskin than it would be to them, and doubtless he feels worse about it than they do. HIS FATE, * Twas thinking how much T resemble your carpet— ‘ou know.” 's, you are very much like my carpet. Iam going to shake it soon. MURAT HALSTEAD is thought by the Rochester Herald to be a bigger fraud as a prophet than any other man in the United States; but we must at least give him credit for the quantity of his prophetic inspiration and the effusiveness with which it is ladled out. THE UNGRATEFUL POPULACE. THE KAISER will risk everything on his army bill. The impudence of the majority in opposing it has grieved his imperial heart, and there is a fair prospect that he may even get so indignant and sorrowful as to threaten their lives. But there is one other relief for him. He might resign. Doubtless the CURE FOR PNEUMATISM, Farmer Jones—" Thar, now. reckon thet'll fix her. Heerd thet new boarder complain. in’ of his rhumatic tire, but she'll be all right now; thet stuff was never knowed ter fail.” comicbooks.com