Comical cholera

(left) “Listen, are these cigars from Valencia?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Are they already vaccinated?”
(right, where sign indicates that inoculation is only available to unmarried single men and widows: married people are forbidden): “Look what trouble it is to be married! You, has it come out in Romero Robledo [Spanish Interior Minister] that married men cannot vaccinate cholera.” [I’ve got this idiom wrong, but you get the idea…]
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1885)