From Mocca, 1933.

"However, it did not matter as it rained cats and dogs."  From Black and White Budget, 1902.

"The two men, foreseeing an evening of domestic discord, silently vanished."  From English Illustrated, 1898.

"A Japanese hero in the rain taking off his hat to a lady of surpassing beauty," from Once a Week, 1860.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1881.

"On dense and rainy nights, as well as on the clear and moon-lighted, you could see his long figure, rubber-coated and glistening."  From Ambition magazine, 1915.

April.  From Die Bühne, 1934.

"April."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

From One Summer by Blanche Willis Howard, 1877.

"Windows for umbrellas."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

"There was no view to be had."  An illustration by Stanley Wood for The Windsor Magazine, 1902.

Here's a barometer banjo from Punch, 1871.

"I'm in it," from 1898.

"The return of the school teachers.  We'd like to see it clear up."  Date uncertain.

"Out to-day, 'The Wet Dog.'"