The Wasp — 1889 — page 84: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three distinct humor sections rather than a political cartoon. **"Didn't Like the Game"** features Uncle Pete criticizing baseball as confusing and poorly organized—a satire of the sport's complex rules and early professionalization era. **"Sam Jones Answered"** describes a humorous anecdote about a man claiming descent from heaven and hell, met with sardonic replies. The joke targets religious pretension and genealogical boasting. **"The Nickle Story"** reviews a boys' adventure magazine, satirizing pulp fiction's implausible train-chase scenarios with exaggerated speeds and impossible physics. The cartoonish illustration shows what appears to be a horse-related incident, though its connection to the adjacent text is unclear from the OCR'd content visible.