How true those words are, even today.  "God's country ain't what it used to be."  From The Judge, 1922.

"Evolution of a raccoon."  From The Judge, 1913.

The evolution of the bookworm, from the Harvard Lampoon via The Judge, 1913.

Q: "A question for the Darwinians.  If nature develops limbs and faculties in response to the demand, why isn't a Dutch hound provided with feet amidships?" —Grip, 1891.

A: Ask again once the Darwinists account for that pesky organism that hasn't evolved for over 2 billion years (beyond desperately calling it the exception that proves the rule).  (And don't bring up the horseshoe crab's 450-million recess from evolution.)

Elections haven't evolved, as Fun magazine reminds us in 1885.

"Descended from eagles," from This Simian World by Clarence Day, 1920.

From Songs of a Pleb by James Buchanan Siders, 1883.

"Tommy's stocking and its astonishing evolution," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1908.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"In the psychological development of the child, there is a step-by-step progression from the primal smile to the smile of embarrassment, joyful laughter, laughter at a comic situation, laughter in a group, aggressive laughter at an outsider, and finally (a somewhat depressing climax) the laugher of Schadenfreude.  ... [A]t each step laughter signifies an experience of relief (Entlastung), both physically and psychologically."
—Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997)