"What must their most secret prayers be like, these men who pray and prey and pray and prey" (Kevin Sessums, Mississippi Sissy, 2008).  Our illustration appears in Grip, 1888.

"The devil a monk was he," from The Sketch, 1908.

"On the turn of the card," from Truth Christmas Number, 1894.

"But, do not forget (1), the cost; and (2), the evil."  From Pearson's, 1910.

Here's a grapevine from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1885.

Taking his cheese for a walk.  From Le Rire, 1910.

The fire demon kills!  Destroys!  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

"Planets with four suns in their sky may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests" (Space.com).  From Mocca, 1930.

"Can you make anything out of this combination of a weather-chart and a chess problem?"  From Pick Me Up, 1894.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

The wind people from Loraine and the Little People by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by M. T. Ross, 1915.

"The government 'investigating,'" from Grip, 1888.

"Left your umbrella here last night, did you.  Is this it?"  From The Sketch, 1908.

From Truth Christmas Number, 1894.

"Evolution of the engagement ring," by Shef Clarke for Puck, via an ad in Pearson's, 1910.