An illustration from Earthquakes by Arnold Boscowitz (1890).  The caption reads: "Child crushed during the Viège earthquake."

An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903).  The caption reads: "They had evidently found the buffet."

The Bogey Competition: an illustration from an 1894 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Blandford Edwards (1889).  The caption reads: "Each must interpret for himself."

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "Twelve hundred Elfin knights and more were there in silk and steel arrayed."

"Sound funny? Only if you don't live with him."
—The Ladies' Home Journal (1977)

Here's a precursor to the Bonnie Tyler song 'If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man),' from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock (1896).  The caption reads: "If you were a bachelor, and I were a maid, I should not trust myself to be your aga—aga—."

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "Billings adjusted the glass to his eye and looked again. 'By Jove, it's a horse-race!'"

How consciousness bends the body: an illustration from The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel, 1911.

An illustration from A Frenchman in America by Max O'Rell (1891).

An illustration from an 1885 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The irate woman pitched him head first through an open window."

Q: Why did the British monetary system undergo decimalization?

A: (See illustration.)

"Standing stones, of course, are not literally people, but we gain merit by knowing about them."

"Stupidity in Europe": an illustration from Following the Equator by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1897).

Is Francophobia a voluntary condition?  Consider this illustration from The Quiver, 1872.  The caption reads: "I shall hate everything French."

For your comfort, here's what the Beyond looks like.  From Songs of the Dawn by Charlotte Murray (1887).

An illustration from an 1860 issue of Arthur's Home magazine.  The caption reads: "A jar—not of honey."

Animals drawn from memory (apparently), from Bibliophile (1908).  The caption reads: "Hec animalia sunt veraciter depicta sicut vidimus in terra sancta."

"Good for Evil": an illustration from an 1885 issue of Little Wide Awake magazine.