The Wasp — 1895 — page 842: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and directory listings** for San Francisco businesses (hotels, restaurants, laundries, printers, saloons) rather than political satire. The one cartoon present—titled "**NOT A SUCCESS**"—depicts a figure in bed with a caption about "Magna Charta" and a North Beach school. The joke appears to reference a failed school discipline policy: apparently a teacher asked students to sign something ("at the bottom"), but the satirical point—whether mocking the teacher, students, or the document itself—is unclear without additional historical context about this specific school incident. The page functions primarily as a commercial directory, with the cartoon serving as filler content rather than the page's main purpose.