Seasonal humoresques

“It isn’t influenza, is it, my lady?”
“Oh no, I only get such things when they are no longer modern [i.e., in fashion].”
(Wiener Caricaturen, Vienna, 1893) (An inversion of another Austrian cartoon.)

Bacteriological station

“Bac… ter… e… o… o… station. Eh…eh!!! Let’s go inside, Vasya, and have a drink!”
(Shut, St. Petersburg, 1893)

At the border

…between France and Spain: “Master, if you do not have a certificate, you will not enter.”
(La Esquella de la torratxa, Barcelona, 1893)

No fear of leprosy

“I say, hubby, when that wretched cholera came and I got it: weren’t you afraid of me?”
“What a foolish idea! It’s different now that you’re completely healthy.”
(Humoristické listy, Prague, 1893)

Now that one is coming, too!

Cholera (to capitalism and militarism, seated on the proletariat): “Were you to grant my request, I would be the third in your alliance.”
(Die Glühlichter, Vienna, 1893)