"What the moon saw."  From The Progressive Composition Lessons, Fifth and Sixth Years by Brautigam, Harper, and Kidd, 1913.

"The ladies dearly love their heated little post-mortems."  From The Bridge-Fiend by Arthur Loring Bruce a.k.a. Frank Crowninshield, 1909.

Facing the subjects away frees the illustrator from drawing facial features.  From Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Ignácz Kúnos and illustrated by Celia Levetus, 1896.

If you ever wondered about how fashion models affect those still expressions, it's all done with motors.  The headline reads, "Expression of model's face changed by motor."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

Twisty electrical poles.  From Jugend, 1918.

From Medical Pickwick, 1917.

"In dark and light … a long day" -- two chapter titles from Electa by Jennie M. Drinkwater, 1881.

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Here's how a snowflake is a table and a O is an unfamiliar notion.  From A Handbook of Phrenotypics for Teachers and Students by Major Beniowski, 1842.

"'What is that?' he demanded in a strange voice."  From The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1903.

"Satan cast out of heaven."  From Camera, A Practical Magazine for Photographers, 1903.

Key juggling attracts the demon of jangled nerves.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

"She was taken to see all the chief cities of the world."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.

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From Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1901.

Here's a precusor to comedian Minnie Pearl's famous hat with a dangling price tag.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.

"Hardly had he said this, before both the animals vanished."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.

You don't even have to be a swimmer for this to work -- "Swimmer sees mistakes reflected in mirror."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.

This residence on Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, has been deemed "No Good."

From Ulk, 1921.

"When jealousy goes out of the door, boredom comes in at the window."  From The Judge, 1916.  

"A terrible night.  How the man in the moon looked while he was being eclipsed."  From Harper's Young People, 1888.

"You'll be tired of this thing up here before winter."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1901.

From The Saga of Jarl the Neatherd by H. Escott-Inman, 1903.

It's been said that "Some money is smart money" (Hill Harper, The Wealth Cure).  Smart money is educated, as we see in this piece from Jugend, 1923. 

A night walk from Die Bühne, 1925.

"Then out of the valley a gren Deev arose."  From When I Was a Little Girl by Zona Gale and illustrated by Agnes Pelton, 1913.

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"The stranger vanished, and in his place she distinguished the form of an enormous dragon."  From Pall Mall, 1895.

Here's a precursor to Star Wars, in which Emperor Palpatine tempts Luke and Leia with a wreath of the dark side.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.