The Wasp — 1890 — page 137: what you’re looking at

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This page contains three separate articles rather than cartoons: 1. **"Provincial Elements in San Francisco"** – a critical essay about San Francisco's provincial character and lack of cultural sophistication, lamenting how the city's best talent leaves for better opportunities elsewhere. 2. **"The Secret of the Floods"** – a humorous dialogue between a weather clerk and a Signal Officer about California flooding predictions, using bureaucratic incompetence as satire. 3. **"Throw Up Your Hands!"** and **"800 and Twe."** – brief anecdotes: the first mocking a highwayman's theatrical demand, the second commenting on West Virginia's Democratic election spectacles with cynical humor about vote-buying. The page is primarily text-based satire rather than illustrated cartoons, typical of *The Wasp's* satirical journalism format.