Here's the age-old Chinese science of what makes a ghost, from the works of Wen-Chang Ti-Kyüin, 1876, as quoted in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal.

"What magic wonders may be seen in candle smoke on Hallowe'en!  I found your fate in this mystic book, and the cat sees something that makes her look."  Date uncertain.

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"A high ball."  Date uncertain.

A figure (left) and a figure left.  The figure (left) is from the Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin, 1995.  The other figure was left on Easter Island.

This is from an article about aligning reflectors in geometric forms to send signals to life on other planets.  From Cassell's, 1893.

Truth in advertising — they put the word testing in quotation marks and then symbolically acknowledge that it's a bunch of bull.  From c. 1890.

"The only certainty about an odyssey is that one can never turn back." —Ethics and Public Administration

"The necessary spectacles," from My Fourth Tour in Western Australia by Albert Frederwick Calvert and illustrated by Walker Hodgson, 1897.

It's nice when authors give some advance notice of a red herring.  In this case, though, the red herring is not a misleading clue but an actual fish.  From Snarleyyow Or the Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat, 1837.

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"Life's not easy for pumpkins" —William Skyvington.

"Be good."  Date uncertain.

Here's King Jack o' Lantern, date uncertain.

"His master's breath," a souvenir of Beaumont, Texas.  (Here's another vintage "His Master's Breath."  We also previously encountered an ancient mosiac precursor to the dog Nipper of "His master's voice" fame.  And there's this vintage photo of another listening canine.)