The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
“A New Vice: Opium Dens in France”, cover of Le Petit Journal, 5 July 1903.
Scanned from Smoke: a global history of smoking (2004) ISBN 1-86189-200-4
(Source: Wikipedia)
ptitjournal 9 mars 1913 dos by pilllpat (agence eureka) on Flickr.
Le Petit Journal 9th March, 1913: In order to save her child from the fire, a mother throws (the child) from the window
