The Wasp — 1891 — page 115: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising**, featuring San Francisco businesses (liquor dealers, insurance companies, piano manufacturers). The main illustration is titled "IN THE ALVISO MARSHES" with the caption "Amateur Sportsman—I wonder what that deuced fool is laughing at?" The cartoon depicts a humorous hunting mishap: two figures in a marsh, with one appearing to have fallen or gotten stuck while the other laughs. The joke concerns amateur hunters' incompetence in outdoors pursuits—a common theme mocking city dwellers attempting rural activities. The facing article, "A Born Genius," tells a lengthy anecdote about an inventor of dubious contraptions, satirizing pseudoscientific charlatans common in the era. No specific political figures are identified.