Judge, 1894-02-17 · page 4 of 16
Judge — February 17, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple short humorous sketches typical of late-19th century satirical magazines: **"Disciplining the Jury"** depicts a rural/frontier judge addressing drunk jurors with mock-serious frontier dialect, joking that intoxicated jurors will be "sobered up" at the creek—suggesting incompetence and corruption in backwoods courts. **Other sketches** include workplace humor ("A Desirable Disqualification" about hiring an office boy without stamp-collecting obsession), relationship comedy, and social commentary. "Pine-Tree State Benefits" jokes that Maine residents have never wanted a drink they couldn't get—likely satirizing Maine's temperance reputation or actual prohibition laws. **"Overweighted"** mocks women imitating aristocratic affectations (the Princess of Wales), suggesting vanity and social climbing. The humor relies on dialect, class stereotypes, romantic misunderstandings, and commentary on contemporary social pretensions—typical Judge content mixing political/social satire with lighthearted domestic comedy.
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PUL pa W/) eae. DISCIPLINING THE JURY. ANG (of Deadgutch) sternly —** It pains this court very much to see that Big Ike an’ Hairy Dan are both on ‘em drunk an’ don’t know nothin’ greaser ‘Ud know better ‘n to git drunk so early in the trial, an’ the sheriff will immejitly take ‘em out to the crick an’ sober ‘em up.” A DESIRABLE DISQUALIFICATION, PINE- TREE STATE BENEFITS. D a new office-boy, sir,” said the book-keeper. First traveler —" Have you ever known what it is to want a drink ry well,” replied the proprietor; “advertise for one. Addtothe and not have the means to get it?” 1 advertisement, ‘ One not afflicted with the stamp-collecting fever preferred.’ Second traveler —" No, stranger; I've always lived in Maine.” | SO THEY WERE MARRIED. HE NEVER said be loved, not he, But with his great expressive thumb ® He spelled out “*I l-o-v For he was deaf and dumb. * Cand fnger) THE REAL-ESTATE OF AFFAIRS. Hobbs —""That fellow Dalton seems to be gaining ground in his affair with Miss Clay.” Nobbs—"Then he must have a mortgage on her name.” FICKLENESS. A HINT. She —" Her heart Eddie —“ Aunty, is like a novel—easy to didn’t you say you * read." doted on m He—"Yes; and Aunty—“Yes, like a novel in a circu- dear.” lating library—not to die—" Well, be kept longer than two aunty, if you should weeks.” tak t asat bay ne OVERWEIGHTED. some candy Julie —" Mabel is affecting and it should a waking-stick.” turn out to May—" How odious of her! be poisoned, Imitating the princess of Wales, then you'd } A I presume. How I detest an- be my anti- ae : —a glomania dote, would- -- . Julie —* Well, 1 believe she n't you?” Farmer —‘* Now, since that kid thinks he’s so smart I'll make him think that he got off a railroad would like it given out that that train, and then I'll stop right sudden and he will run up to me, and I'll get a smack at him yet,— was the fad, but between our- selves I think she really needs it to assist her in carrying the violets given her by her fiancé.” BY WAY OF ADVICE, WHILE L admit i ist nice To get a comic valentine ‘That represents some little vice ‘Toward which you never did incline ; é : Yet though you know for sure who sent it, —I mast have traveled to fast for that youngster. I'll bet he thought that a cyclone struck him,” Don’t go and ask her if she meant it. comicbooks.com