Life, 1895-04-25 · page 6 of 18
Life — April 25, 1895 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 272 This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Joshed Again"**: A sketch mocking a man claiming to have seen a "Living Pictures" performance, a popular theatrical entertainment of the era. 2. **"Too Much Appetite"**: A dialogue joke about a dog that has eaten its own license tag, making it impossible to afford a replacement—satirizing the costs of urban pet ownership. 3. **"The Growth of Greatness. X. Grover Cleveland"**: A biographical sketch praising Cleveland's rise from obscurity to Governor of New York, emphasizing his reputation for honesty and common sense as qualities that earned public trust and political advancement. 4. **"Bad for the Other Fellow"**: A brief comedic exchange about naval comparisons, likely referencing contemporary maritime themes. The page primarily features satirical commentary on contemporary social and political figures.
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JOSHED AGAIN. PERIN’ BEANS, "LIZA! EF THET AIN'T PICTERS” YOU AN’ ME'S READ ‘ Farmer Sassafras: oxe of THEM © Live THE NOOZEPAPERS!" oN TOO MUCH APPETITE. Here, you can take back this dog you gave me. E: What's the matter with him ? JINGLE: He's eaten his tag. I can’t afford to get him a new license, Dana and Judge Whitelaw Reid. BAD FOR THE OTHER FELLOW. “Wy, DINsIs, YEZ MAS BEEN A FOIGHTIN’ AGIN, vez ts In!” Puwar a sh “AM, BUT YEZ OUGHT TO GAZE UPON THF RIMNANTS OF THE OTHER FELLER, I'm A VANUS ROISIN' FROM THE SEA COMPARED WID HIM!” THE GROWTH OF GREATNESS. x. GROVER CLEVELAND. . FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN WHILE GOVERNOK OF NeW YorK. R. GROVER CLEVELAND isa rising young man who is being especially helped along in his business career by Mr. Charles A. Mr, Cleveland started in life bare- footed and not a penny in the pockets of his swaddling- clothes, as many great men have done before him. It is not related that he ever drove mules on the tow-path or was a juvenile pickpocket. It is to be presumed that he did occasionally run away from school, but none of his political opponents have dared assert as much. When Mr. Cleve- land was twenty-one years old he became of age, Later on he became Sheriff of the County of Erie and State of New York. As custodian of the prisoners of the county he took especial pains to see that his charges did not contract rheumatism or coughs and colds from being out too late at night. He also protected them from the annoyance of book-agents and peddlers. A few years later he became an employee of the City of Buffalo, and drew regular wages as Mayor of that corporation. One of his best jokes was made at that time. He remarked that public office was a public trust, and the city officials of Buffalo laughed at the jest until their sides split, and they found themselves politically dead. Then Mr. Cleveland was elected Governor of the State of New York, and made the acquaintance of Mr. David B. Hill, Mr. Hill is one of our best-known patriots, and Mr, Cleveland at once acquired a strong admiration for Mr. Hill's disinterested motives in dealing with public questions, Mr. Cleveland thought he knew a statesman and honest man when he saw one and tancied he could not be mistaken in his estimation of Mr. Hill, He wasn't, ‘The people of the State of New York grew tired of Mr. Cleveland's common-sense and honesty, and therefore A TATE comicbooks.com