From The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh and illustrated by John Leech, 1852.

Here's a precursor to the Kool-Aid mascot (in the back corner), from The Ohio Farmer, 1908.

From The Ohio Farmer, 1908.

Here's a precursor to the "Be Our Guest" number in Beauty and the Beast, from The Ohio Farmer, 1908.

They say that money doesn't make people happy.  That's because money is self-satisfied, as we learn in Revue Pittoresque: Musée Littéraire, 1849.

From Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and Lewis Carroll, 1921.

From Tommy Toddles's Comic Almenak, 1862.

When an onion sings, potato eyes will get teary.  From Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians by Margaret Hays, 1911.

From The Great Grundy Romance by John Brown Smith, 1864.

"A dream of the sweet bye and bye," from c. 1890.

From Tommy Toddles's Comic Almenak, 1862.

From Them Was the Good Old Days in Davenport, Scott County Iowa by William Purcell, 1922.