His paper warned him to finish his book prematurely: the final words of The Writing-Desk and Its Contents by Thomas Griffiths, 1844.

From Kladderadatsch, 1930.

Indeed, very necessary information may seem like a digression.  From A Study in Temptations by John Oliver Hobbes, 1893.

"And oh, such fairies."  From The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.

"I looked on the fleshless cheeks and grinning teeth with a shiver."  From "The Marble Heart" by Beecher W. Waltermire, in National Magazine, 1913.

"Life is a movie, or a book, or a movie made from a book" (Pete Sinclair, Thinking Out Loud Through the American West, 1999).  From Jugend, 1923.

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If you consciously mind your own business, fortune telling machines may disregard you as a ghost, even when you try to give them money.  Here's our take on the uncanny phenomenon.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.  Here's how to fold this origami costume.  ;-)

Learning dance through musical notation, with mention of "the foreign gentleman of the ridiculously appropriate name."  From Judge's Library, 1893.

From The Photogram, 1896.