The danger of looking the wrong way through the binoculars.  From Judge's Library, 1894.

Here's a precursor to the running gag of referring to Google as "Something" in Arrested Development (because Google wouldn't give the show permission to refer to its tradename).  In Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots, there's a mega-corporation analogous to Google, called Goliath.  At one point, it's referred to as "the Something Company."

You guessed it -- this is indeed how modern art is created.  From Pliuvium, 1907.

Reblog if your big ears make you a good listener.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.

From Lustige Blätter, 1904.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.

"A sleek black cat balanced himself on her shoulder."  From The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins, 1874

From Kladderadatsch, 1929.

The black horse.  From More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.

From Jugend, 1927.