Here's a precursor to tabloid headlines about model/actress Twiggy heading to the altar.  From Judge's Library, 1908.

Coincidentally,there were newer "Twiggy Engaged?" headlines.

Here's a marvelous explanation of the Irish "seven devils" as speculative superstition refracted by a mental prism into differently colored devils across the nations of the earth.  From Holland-Tide or Irish Popular Tales by Gerald Griffin, 1927.  Favorite phrases: "If one were disposed to be fancifully metaphysical upon the subject ..." -- yes, one would be so disposed!  Ireland as a "step-daughter" island.  And the zinger: "But what has this to do with the story?  In order to answer that question, the story must be told."

"There thou art, thou pretty buck.  Thou seest me, but I see thee not."  From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.

From Ulk, 1901.

From The Harvard Lampoon, 1890.

Here's the pace of progress from Wiener Revue, 1946.

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"The obsession of the invalid," from The Sketch, 1905.

"Treatment for headache," from The Perfect Course of Instruction in Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, Suggestive Therapeutics, and the Sleep Cure, 1900.

"'Drest in a little brief authority' — and then!"  From The Sketch, 1910.

"The demon of the esplanade," from Grip, 1890.

"Flames from Liberty torch only chemical smoke."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.