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This page contains satirical commentary and a cartoon titled "Getting Even." The main illustrated piece depicts someone ("Jones") planning to paint a megaphone at a neighbor's window to annoy them in retaliation for the neighbor's daughter's piano lessons disturbing Jones's household. The joke reflects a common urban frustration: noise complaints between neighbors. It satirizes the cycle of escalating petty revenge—Jones wants to "get even" by creating even louder noise directed at the Browns' house. The upper portion includes brief humorous items about various topics (horses, ship names, religious debates), typical of Judge's miscellaneous satirical content. The cartoon mocks how everyday disputes can devolve into increasingly absurd retaliatory schemes.
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Ask any duly incorporated refin- FIELD MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE has left Peking. He found it would have been inconvenient to bring it away with him. eee OF LITTLE MOMENT--The trial of the Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Moment by the Brooklyn Presbytery upon charges of contumacy, untruthful- ness, etc. eee ‘THE SO-CALLED “New Agnostic” marriage ceremony, publicly per- formed by a magistrate in Cincinnati the other day, is declared to have been the first of its kind—and it ought to be the last. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY won the coveted blue ribbon of the Eng- lish Derby with an American-trained colt, ridden by an American jockey. The “Yankee Peril” is a-itting old England ‘ard. AT GOODWIN brought out his initial production of “The Merchant of Venice” at Syracuse, N. Y., and then said he had been “trying it on the dog.” Syracuse returns the compliment by spelling his name “Ghat” Goodwin. TOM: the big clephant at the Central Park Zoo, New York City, has been trying to kill his keeper. The State Republican Machine ele- phant is making similar attacks upon its kind old boss, whose name, by a singular ccincidence, is likewise Tom (Platt). st esutveury THE NEW JOURNALISM. AN AMBITIOUS WRITER jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge, in the hope that the notoriety ensuing would open the way to his employ- ment on the New York yellow journals. The next morning he had a“ big spread” in all of them—but it was his obituary notice. QUO VADIS? EAN DE RESZKE'S HORSE has won the Austrian Derby, Pade- rewski has produced an opera, Modjeska is writing her memoirs, and Sienkiewicz is reported as “progressing well” with his monumental work on John Sobieski, after which he will do a ten-volume serieszki on Napo- leon, Look out for another Polish insurrection! IN THE RUNNING FOR THE LAUREATESHIP. RUPYARD KIPLING, in his latest guinea-a-word poem, perpetrates the following stanza: Quick, ere the gift escape us, Out of the darkness we reach For a handful of week-old papers And a mouthful of human speech.” This is crowding Alfred Austin pretty close on his famous rhyme of force + meet with horse-meat, . MAKING CONDITIONS EVEN. 'HE FACT that the cup-defender Conststution has been struck by a squall and wrecked while on a trial spin in precisely the same manner and with the same disastrous results as the challenger, Shamrock //., shows how strenuous yet how even is the competition of the respective constructors. They seem to have overdone it, in the matter of lightness of spars; but, having fortunately found this out in time, they are not likely to forget the lesson which has been impartially administered on both sides. The Constitution will be duly amended, and let us hope both she and the Shamrock will be stanch enough to laugh at gales such as blow here- abouts in late October. “FOR EXCHANGE.” “ JUDGE'S” SWAPPING DEPARTMENT. N ERVOUS GENTLEMAN will trade (at once) a Bulldog, with Teeth in perfect condition, for a Maltese Kitten. Purchaser will be ex- pected to remove property at own risk. The Rev. Upto Date has a barrel of orthodox sermons, which he would like to exchange for a series of pulpit lectures on any current topic, barring religious faith. Professor Herron, lecturer on Mis-applied Christianity, gives expert advice on matrimonial swapping and moral sophistry of all kinds. Address Free-and-Easy Love Colony, Metuchen; Pa. Giant Baseball Nine of New York City, having removed its record- standing to the head of the League list, announces the vacancy of its old place, down at the foot, which can be leased permanently at lowest rates. Clergyman, leaving town on account of having been requested by his congregation to resign, will sacrifice a large green parrot, very accomplished talker, suitable for a saloon, stable, or public room of sporting road-house. GETTING EVEN. * Hello! What are you going to do with that megaphone?” Why. I'm daughter's piano-lessons. Going to point it out of my window toward Brown's house and snore into it at night. I want to get even with the Browns for their comicbooks.com