The nut is coming!
“My lord, I am going on a trip to Europe, and I think it very fair that you should transport my luggage.”
“I shall take it with pleasure, but charge for the passage.”
“Have they called?”
(Surely it’s the fulminating cholera.)
“Come on, open up, Arturo.”
“No; ladies first.”
“I am terrible, I am cruel. Whoever catches a sip of me….. Cholera morbo is here for anyone who wants something from him!”
(Madrid Cómico, Madrid, 1883)
“Poor cholera, it keeps such bad company!”
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1883)
Against cholera, cleaning up.
(La Campana de Gracia, Barcelona, 1883)
Lower-deck passengers from Austria [the Habsburg Empire] who embarked from a Hamburg steamer are medically examined to prevent the introduction of diphtheria.
(Das interessante Blatt, Vienna, 1883)
Husband: “Dear wife! Education is easy and it is difficult. In the present case I would advise you not to tell the children “If you love uncleanliness, that’s how cholera comes,” but rather just to say: “If you are clean, then cholera doesn’t come!” That would suffice everywhere for a bit of sense, and fear and terror would be over.”
(Nebelspalter, Zurich, 1883)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 