The Wasp — 1889 — page 317: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a **text-only editorial page** rather than a cartoon page. The Wasp was a San Francisco satirical weekly, and this issue contains multiple brief commentary sections on current events. The editorials mock: - **Cable car safety negligence** and company indifference to accidents - **Civil Service reform** under President Harrison, attacking the notion that "clerical duties in Government offices" merit high compensation - **The Eiffel Tower** (under construction for the Paris Exposition) - **Lord Lonsdale's Arctic exploration claims** as likely fabrications - **Congressional funding debates** over public monuments - Various political figures and social absurdities The tone is acerbic and dismissive throughout, typical of 19th-century satirical journalism focused on exposing incompetence and hypocrisy in government and business.