More than one cow jumped over the moon, as we see in From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip Round It by Jules Verne, 1874.

You've heard that money makes the world go around, but it's actually bunny.  From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton, 1885.

"Well kin you beat that?  It actually ends!"  From The American Legion Weekly, March 17, 1922.

Here's a precursor to Cesar Romero as The Joker, from An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan, 1891.

Here's a vulture with his leg in a sling, from St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

"Here, this is Mr. Scissors.  From now on, he's your best friend." —George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs Vol. II (2007)

Our illustration is from St. Nicholas magazine, 1903.

"Lady Lyndon and I had an argument on transubstantiation."  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

At what point do we begin to question cultural norms?  The Gold Nugget Sport is from 1890.

"Thought reading extraordinary," from A Rambler's Recollections and Reflections by Alfred Capper, 1915.

There's more going on with a magician's hat than we're at liberty to discuss, as we see in this ad from 1891.

Prof. Oddfellow shares one of his secrets of walking through a brick wall, in Carrboro, North Carolina.  For Gordon Meyer.

From The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin Dwight Babbitt, 1878.

"A silvery and blue tinted flame sprung up from each," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

Sporting lines of longitute and latitude is the mark of one worldy in body acceptance, and always remember: one is never as stretched out as a Mercator projection.  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.  (And always remember, too: we are the world.)