It's always Happy Hour somewhere.  The caption reads, "The Seigneur comes in a happy hour for us."  From English Illustrated, 1899.

"He went so far as to move a rider to the resolution, suggesting toasted cheese."  From English Illustrated, 1895.

"She smiled at me with both heads."  From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.

From Pearson's, 1898.

"Moderation is a word unknown among clocks."  From Pearson's, 1898.

"The ghost rabbit."  From Wild Animals I Have Known, written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.

"The Gorgonzola once more.  The Colonel (catching sight of cheese in high state of activity).—Is that cheese, or have I got 'em?"  From Pick Me Up, 1890.

"Sitting down opposite the cheese."  From English Illustrated, 1893.

It's not just any hair product that makes one feel carried away by geese.  Circa 1890.

The phrase "monoliths don't grow on trees" is a Googlewhack.  From Jugend, 1898.

You've heard of inscribing "a hieroglyphic in which culture is coded, thus creating a microscopic counterpart to the great enigma" that we desire to decipher (Ricardo Piglia, "Sarmiento the Writer").  Well, here's the Eye in the Pyramid as seen under a microscope, from Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomiem, 1897.

From Jugend, 1897.

"Home made," from Pearson's, 1897.

"Then all the spirits that swell in darkness shall obey the wearer," from "The Mystery of Precious Stones" in Cassell's, 1896.

Here's a cat o' nine tails from Cassell's, 1896.

"An Eskimo Legend.—Nov. 1, 1894.  Nooktah relates to me the following legendary conversation between an Eskimo and a raven flying over with something in its mouth.  'Sunah kingmiahpeu?' ('What have you in your mouth?') asks the man.  'Inukkoktooah mahmaktoksuah.  Eeoquaw; eeoquaw' ('The thigh-bone of a man.  It is very sweet.  Caw, caw'), answers the raven."  From Northward Over the "Great Ice" by Robert E. Peary, 1898.  (Note that the tea pot that steams brown bread and defrosts apple sauce technically relates to a previous paragraph.)