Judge, 1894-08-04 · page 6 of 16
Judge — August 4, 1894 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple unrelated humor pieces typical of 1890s-era satirical magazines: **"Love's Labor Lost"** (top): A sequential comic showing a man chasing a woman uphill, with dialogue suggesting romantic pursuit and flirtation. **"Birth-place of Hoodoos"**: A joke about a sports team's losing streak allegedly caused by discovering their mascot was born in Brockport, New York—mocking superstitious thinking about talismans. **"Jupiter Pluvius"**: A complaint about rain always arriving during vacations, personifying the Roman rain god. **"In the Garden"**: A child's joke about ants tickling plants to death, playing on innocent misunderstanding. **"Defeating Artful Dodgers"**: A baseball-themed piece where a carnival "dodging booth" operator describes hitting a man's jaw and heart, with a judge awarding "life" as punishment—dark humor mixing baseball slang with criminal justice. **Other items**: Brief quips about newspaper columnists wanting vast space to fill, a prodigal son's joke about saving his appendix, and a ballet dancer's epitaph. The page reflects period humor: sporting references, wordplay, and crude satire.
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Se YOUR team isn’t winning a game nowadays.” “No, We've just discovered that our mascot was born in Brock- port, New York.” JUPITER PLUVIUS. WHEY is it since the world began You send an inundation ‘The very time poor weary man Starts off on his vacation ? IN THE GARDEN. Johnnie —* Mamn makes the plants so dead ? Mamma—" Dry weather and poor soil, | suppose, dear.” nnic—"1 guess those ants ¢ over ‘em tickled ‘em to what craw death,’ Juner Ounsrort— busin also committed assault and battery, eh?” bizniz an’ me. Now Jupex OLnsront tence him to be released.”* t does he desoive?” LOVE'S LABOR LOST, ——If he can catch me with the —"'Miss_Daisy—I—I—wait—get start I have he’s a daisy.” — —breath—1—1"— Fatty —"‘ There's the dear girl. —Hlello! here comes Skinner. What a lovely chance to tell her how 1 I'll, bet a hat he’s on the same love her! — tack, — BIRTH-PLACE OF HOODOOS. DEFEATING ARTFUL DODGERS. * You claim this prisoner (the base-ballist) broke up your Veovesson Corns (proprictor of the baie-ball dodging booth)—"* Vessut. battery work he done wuz great De first cuoive nailed Abe in de mout’; de secon’ inde lamp. Hut de last socker did de bizniz, It broke his jaw, his heart, an’ me who had been gulled)—* That man deserves life." A GREAT SAVING, +¢ HAVE you saved anything in the last year?" asked the irate father of the prodigal son. “Yes, dad,” said the prodigal. “T've saved my vermiform appen- dix.” EPITAPH ON A BALLET- DANCER. HERE lies our much-loved Coralie, She danced o'er death's dark wave ; We've seen her merry, but till now We never saw her grave. VISIONS OF GREAT WEALTH, Agatha— Think of the im- mensity of space, Algernon!" Algernon (newspaper writer) — “Yes. If I could only fill it at reg- ular column rates!" tree J then the comicbooks.com