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Puck — July 24, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This Puck page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The advertisements dominate—for Apollinaris mineral water, Hunyadi János aperient (a laxative), printing inks, compressed yeast, cabinet furniture, and other products. The editorial snippets are brief social commentary typical of Puck's satirical style: - Political gossip about unnamed Washington figures - Jokes about local scandals (a man preaching against ice water while secretly using it) - Anecdotes about aristocrats and social pretension - Commentary on journalism and public figures The cartoons are small and illustrative rather than central to the page. Without clearer identification of specific individuals or dated events in the visible text, the precise targets of satire remain unclear to a modern reader—these appear to be references to contemporary (late 19th-century) political and social figures whose names aren't explicitly stated.
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14 NotuinG is heard now of the President's policy. He may have lost it.— Picayune. Lictininc might do more sometimes if it wasn’t in such an awful hurry.— Bridgeport Standard. In the opinion of the Wheeling Sunday Leader, Beaconsfield is ‘‘a biger man” than old Vic. Ir is said truth lies at the bottom of a well; but the constitutional liar has never be known to let well enough alone.— Picayune. Live is full of curious things. What makes some men wear a duster fourteen inches shorter than their undercoat ?— Bridgeport Standard. A San Francisco woman, having no faith in banks, carried around $2,400 in her bustle. ‘Thus her income was always in arrears.— Vor Herald. Porrer’s committee will hold its sessions on the board walk at Atlantic City, while its wit- nesses will lie all round on the beach. —ii/a. Bulletin. Tue Boston Courier says that a penitential shadiness becomes Jeff. Davis better that. pub- licity. A penitentiary shadiness would be still more becoming.— Hila, Bulletin. You never saw a Mormon tramp.---Puck. What's the reason we didn’t? There are a great many more men tramps than women tramps. Thousands more.— Phila. Bulletin. Pierre Lorittarp will spend $16,000 in frescoing his Newport house. ‘The prizes in packages of chewing tobacco will be’ less fre- quent and more fine cut this year.— Picayune, Murat Hatsteap is preaching a hot crusade against ice water. The man is consistent, too. We have been in his sanctum when it was very hot, but it was not ice water that we drank from that ancient tin cup, was it ?—/hiladel- bhia Bulletin, PUCK. APOLLINARIS NATURAL Mineral Water, The Queen of Table Waters. HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. MILNER FOTHERGILL. Londo: lnarins A Dslicious Beverages” | it. Geo: losp., ‘hslesome, and abeshe nn. OUDEN DOHEMUS, “Absolutely pure and ‘wholesome; superior to all for daily use: free from all the ob- jections urged against Croton and artificially aerated waters.” PETER President of the Hert Appetite.” AMA, ©. Mae: geon to fore Wholesome Physician ‘Of great value atthe bladder, Sind of the respiratory organs; agreeable and useful. FREDERICK DE BARY & CO., 41 &43 Warren Street, NEW YORK. Sole Agents for United States and Canadas. FOR SALE BY DEALERS, GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS. Evere genuine bottle bears the Yellow label. THE BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS Usen ow Tis Param ann MANUFACTURED BY FRED'K H. LEVEY & CO., PRINTING INK MANUFACTURERS, $2 Beekman Street, NEW YORK. Wit a frigidity that nothing this side of. let's call it Halifax—cuuld thaw out, the Rome Sentinel says: ‘Jt was cold enough last night so that we found ice a foot thick at our door this morning."—Rochester Express. ‘Tue picnic and ice cream season is here; watermelons and peaches are with us again; but these luxuries poorly compensate us for the loss of those amusing cable dispatches we so long enjoyed, viz. “Peace Assured” and “War Inevitable.” We must now content ourselves with dispatches concerning Bismarck's dog and King William's health.—orr, Herald. Bryant was never honored by a seat in Congress, and in the Evening Post he never allowed the prefix “Hon.” to be attached to any man’s name. To him there was some- thing out of place in speaking of ‘Hon. John Morrissey and Mr. William Cullen Bryant” as great men of the day.—New Orleans Picayune. ‘Tne family of a gentleman of color, residing in this city, was blessed with a pair of twin boys the other evening. His wife being a white woman, one of the boys was black and the other white. Here's a chance for a con- flict of races.—Late City Leader. It would appear to us that there hac been a conflict of races, and that the colored man had lost one trick somehow.—Sti/ivater Lumberman. Boston has struck a capital idea. Some benevolent persons have arranged to send poor children to farm-houses for weeks at a time. If there isa Paradise in this unequally happy globe, it is a farm-house to a city child.— Mycum Adv. Hate to be correcting fellows all the time, but it’s Philadelphia that has struck the Benevolent Baby-farm Business.—Fii/a, Bulletin, AND YET BEING SOLD AS. COMPRESSED beotekies ee ror EEESGICMIE ITEISCHMANN de COS: CENGINE ARTICLE THE GREAT EUROPEAN NOVELTY. HUNYADI JANOS. The Best Natural Aperient. its richness io aperient salts sur passes that of all other known a junyadi Janos. — The tmost agreeable, safest, efficacious aperient wat PROFESSOR igouow; GER, Vienna, 1 have pre scribed these Waters with remar- katle success.” PROFESSOR, SCANZONI, Warsbarg. ESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, London,” “More pleasant than its iv s them ia efficacy. “1 prescribe F.R.S., Ro: M.D Mipueterred to Paling Hospital, Netley. * Zasnone 7 A Wineglassful a Dose. INDISPENSABLE TO THE TRAVELLING PUBLIC. Every genuine bottle bears the name of THe AroLtinants Co ). London. int Frev’k De Bary & Co., 41443 WARREN Street, NEW YORK, Sole Agents for the United States and Canada. FOR SALE BY DEALERS, GROCERS, AND DRUGGISTS, ‘The Label on every genuine Bottle is printed on BLUE paper °rices Lower than before the War. za: and 253 Broadway, New York. MATHESIUS & FREY, Maxvractorens oF CABINET FURNITURE Upholstery, Decorations, &c., at Prices to suit the times. Every Article guaranteed. Of BLEECKER ST., NEW YORK, Ir is evidently the policy of England to strengthen the aristocracy as much as poss le. Peerages are flying around like blackberries. —WN. Y. Com. Adv. Ir the editor of the Cincinnati Commercial is anything, and that he is, all nature cries aloud through all her works, he is a friend of boiling water as a beverage. It is not that he loves iced sherbet less, but that he loves a hot drink more.— Derrick. ‘THe information has just reached us that Butler is having printed one hundred thousand copies of a speech made by him in 1869, for general distribution, Here we go for a lodge in some vast wilderness, where there is no post- office. Good-bye! Who will care for mother now ?— Oil City Derrick. Jupce Hivton certainly carried out the wishes of the late A. T. Stewart in opening a hotel for women, and he carried out his own in immediately shutting it up again, and keep- ing a tavern that would pay better intercsts.— XM. O. Picayune. A Book farmer was discovered sitting under a tree in one corner of his grain-field a few mornings since, reading, in a very loud tone, « pamphlet report of the Beecher-Tilton trial. He explained that the weather was very hot, and he was trying a new plan to “shock” his wheat.— Norristown Herald. Tue rain is supposed to descend upon the just and unjust, but the sun doesn’t appear to do business that way. While honest people are dying from the heat in St. Jouis, Beecher is still enjoying good health. —Kronikle- Herald. comicbooks.com