Judge — July 7, 1900 — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ne SELF-DEFENSE. Irate bather —"V'd like to kick Jones—he ducked me.” Sharp wife— Why didn't you do it with the undertow?" ON JULY FIFTH. (Tommy, log.) SAW the golden blossoms fy Out of the big pin-wheel last night ; I saw them in the darkness die— ‘The darkness that they made so bright. Yet all those shining stars I see This morning in the gleam of dawn Tossing in spirit wild and free— The dandelions on the lawn. PROTECTION. Poodle— I'm going to be shaved like a lion— it’s so cool for the summer.” Cur —"I'm getting my tail docked for the 2, —Git ready ter light de cracker after I tie it on.” | POSSIBLE VACANCIES. Pnorocrarier—"'I can’t give you a sitting till day after to-morrow.” Mr. FAMLYMANN—'‘I'm afraid that'll be too late. To-morrow’’s the fourth of July, and we wanted to be taken together.” 1. Cunone—"* Unele Jake. — Let's have some fun wid ol” THE INEVITABLE, Jaggles—* What do you think of the public displays of fireworks on the Fourth?” Waggles— They always seem to be the same —postponed on account of rain.” PYROTECHNICAL AND POLITICAL. CON: SEE the sky-rocket that Sizzles on high And all of a sudden goes Out on the fly! The sky-rocket 's met the po- Litical doom Of up like the candidate, Down like the boom, AFTER THE EXPLOSION. Widow —"You say you met my little boy. Which way was he going when you saw him last?" By-stander— Straight up in the air.” 8, Uncte JAKE (as 'Rastus jerks the line)— “Wow ! that pulls like a big red snapper.” THE FISH THAT EXPLODED—A FOURTHI-OF-JULY SURPRISE. comicbooks.com