The Wasp — 1895 — page 864: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains several satirical stories and illustrations rather than a single cartoon. The main pieces include: **"An Impresario's Tact"** features a street musician leading an "Open Air Concert" who will be moved along by police after performing. **"It Was No Fake"** recounts a court case about an abandoned infant, satirizing judicial questioning and the defendant's implausible claims about the child's origin—likely mocking both judicial credulity and irresponsible behavior. **"Unnecessary to His Business"** appears to joke about a Pacific Pete losing his left eye, with dark humor about the irrelevance of this injury. The page is dominated by medical and commercial advertisements (dental parlors, deafness cures, patent medicines), typical of 1890s-era satirical publications that relied heavily on such revenue while maintaining editorial content mocking contemporary society and institutions.