Note the word "dirt" in the cloudy reaches of this as-is scan from the Internet Archive.  It recalls the Hermetic maxim, "As above, so below."  From St. Nicolas magazine, 1873.

Here's the "outraged husband" trick from Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, Embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans by James William Buel, 1883.

From Fifty "Bab" Ballads written and illustrated by Willian Schwenck Gilbert, 1881.

"The Sick Wind": an illustration from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry (1899).

"Chinese joss-house at San Francisco," from America Revisited by George Augustus Henry Fairfield, 1882.

From London Bridge to Lombardy by a Macadamised Route by W. R. Richardson, 1869.

An illustration from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier (1892).

Here's a precursor to Batman's residence at Stately Wayne Manor.  From Victoria and its Metropolis Past and Present by Alexander Sutherland (1888).  The caption reads: "Batman's dwelling on the Yarra."

From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

An illustration from Poems Via the Author, Third Series, Political (1888).  The caption reads: "But here you shall more secrets gain, / And never need be fooled again. ... Explanation of the Colours."

Here's a precursor to the expression, "Hey, four-eyes."  From A String of Chinese Peach-Stones by William Arthur Cornaby, 1895.

Here's a precursor to Gary Barwin's Yiddish for Pirates (Random House Canada, 2016), a novel narrated by a parrot.  The caption reads, "The very parrot was a participator."  From Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legatees by John Galt and illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, 1895.

From Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre Todd, 1896.

An illustration from A Social Departure by Sara Jeannette Duncan (1890).  The caption reads: "But the young Baboo sat in the drawing-room and waited a long time for his ice."

From Funny Books for Boys and Girls, 1856.

An illustration from The Experiences of a Forty Niner During Thirty Four Years Residence in California and Australia by Charles Ferguson (1888).  The caption reads: "A race with a shower."