The Wasp — 1894 — page 95: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Main Content:** The left side features "Champion of the World—James J. Corbett," a caricatured boxer holding an American flag, standing on a globe. Below are verses celebrating Corbett's boxing victories, particularly defeating "the Briton" and becoming champion. This is straightforward sports celebrity coverage. The right side contains "Midwinter Fair Nuptials," a satirical sketch about an Egyptian wedding concession. It mocks both orientalism and San Francisco's 1894 Midwinter Exposition by depicting absurd negotiations between "Far-Away Moses" (Achmet Bey) and another character over a daughter's marriage. The humor targets both stereotyped portrayals of Middle Eastern customs and the exposition's exotic spectacles. The bottom section, "An Epidemic of Gout," appears to be humorous narrative commentary.