Victorian Nose Improvers. (1896)

Are you concerned that your proboscis may be unsightly? That your nose may not pass muster in the best company? Never fear! Victorian science is coming to your rescue!

Ship's Figureheads

No-one seems to have forseen that as wooden ships gave way to metal vessels, so the ship's figureheads, the pride of vessels and their sailors since the bronze age, would vanish too.
This article, from the last era of wood and canvas, now has a valedictory air to  it .