The Wasp — January 10, 1880 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

I can see this is a historical page with an Oregon Rule Company ruler visible in the image, but the actual cartoon content and OCR'd text you mentioned are not clearly legible to me in this reproduction. The image shows what appears to be a black and white page with measurement scales, but the satirical content, any figures, captions, or detailed text are too faint or small for me to read with confidence. To properly explain the satire, political references, and humor to a modern reader, I would need either a clearer image or confirmation of what the OCR text actually says. I cannot reliably identify figures or explain the cartoon's meaning without being able to read the content clearly.