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The year 1888
Casebook Message Boards: General Discussion: Miscellaneous:
The year 1888
Author: Robeer
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 03:06 am |        | There once was a thread containing information about all sorts of things that took place in 1888.
Gerolsteiner is a well known mineral water from Germany. On the label it states:
Quote:The purity and rich mineral content of this water comes naturally from deep down in Gerolstein's volcanic rock since 1888.
In the heart of the Eifel - the wooded highland between Rhine, Moselle and Luxemburg with extinct volcanos and crater lakes - lies the health resort of Gerolstein; a hamlet known far and wide as a holiday center and "City of Springs", which owes its prominance to a gift of nature: rich mineral water reservoirs of exceptional quality. Today Gerolstein is one of the leading centers of the world's mineral springs industry.
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Author: Andy & Sue Parlour
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 01:21 pm | | Robeer, you have started something now.
The year is 1888.
In America George Eastman perfects the first Kodak camera.
In Britain Keir James Hardie defects from the Liberals and stands as the first Labour Candidate. Finally winning the West Ham Constituency in the East End of London in 1892. The first Labour Member of Parliament. (And a hero of the Parlour family).
In Germany Heinrich Hertz discovers electromagnetic waves.
In France Vincent Van Gogh moves to Arles, where amonst others he paints; The Sunflowers, The Drawbridge, Yellow Chair and Pipe and The Cafe Terrace.
In Russia Tchaikovsky completes his fifth symphony.
In Australia right in the middle of the Ripper Murders my grandfather William John Bliss is born on the 21st September 1888 in Geelong Victoria. He goes on to be a war hero in both the 1st & 2nd World Wars. He just loved a good old punch-up. |
Author: Vila
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 02:10 pm | | From the History Channel website:
" 1888
Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany dies after a 27-year reign, during which he saw the unification of Germany and the birth of Germany's welfare state.
The Ndebele king accepts a British protectorate, giving Cecil Rhodes exclusive mining rights in West Africa. The Ndebele will rebel against British rule in the next decade.
American voters elect Republican Benjamin Harrison president, ousting Grover Cleveland.
Brazil frees its remaining slaves, with compensation to masters.
Croatian-American Nikola Tesla invents an alternating-current electronic motor. He also develops early radio technology, but he gets little financial reward for his achievements.
American socialist Edward Bellamy writes Looking Backward, a utopian science-fiction novel depicting the United States in the year 2000; in Bellamy's world, all industry had been socialized, and wealth is equitably distributed.
A Belgian woodcarver publishes the song L'Internationale, with lyrics written during the Paris Commune uprising: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation/ Arise, ye wretched of the earth.... The song is adopted by the Communist Party.
Five London prostitutes die (they ate poisoned grapes and were then disemboweled). Jack the Ripper is blamed, but the killer is never caught; the rumor later circulates that Queen Victoria ordered the murders to distract attention from a scandal involving her son, Prince Albert.
Auguste Rodin finishes his sculpture The Thinker.
George Eastman invents the Kodak camera, making it possible for anyone, not just professionals, to take photographs.
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Note the way-off entry for Jack? And this is the TV channel we look to for info? LOL!
Vila |
Author: lucky pierre
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 02:35 pm | | Born on September 6, 1888 in Boston, Mass...Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of the American political dynasty.
Sometime during July 1888 in Austria, Adolf Hitler is conceived, born April 1889.
Just thought I'd add these for the heck of it! |
Author: Martin Fido
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 03:15 pm | | From "The Timetables of History" (Simon & Schuster Touchstone, 1991)
Lobengula, King of Matabele accepts British protection and grants Cecil Rhodes mining rights. (Might just as well have invited JtR over while he was at it!)
Sarawak acceptes status of British protectorate. (2nd white rajah finds it a bit too much for the Brooke family to handle on its own, if I remember rightly).
General Boulanger is retired from the French army and elected to the Chambre des Deputes. (A white horse and quasi-Napoleonic ambitions, according to what I learned at school).
Suez Canal convention. (Shamefully, for a Disraelian, I've no idea...)
Maurice Barres piublishes "Sous l'oeuil des barbares" (No idea what they were looking at)
Edward Bellamy publishes "Looking backwards, 2000-1887" (Who he, and what did he prognosticate?)
Kipling Publishes "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Ah! The Civbil and Military Gazette's lightning flash of genius lights up London).
Maupassant publishes "Pierre et Jean" (Good old Mopsesun, as Arnold Bennett would say).
Quiller-Couch publishes "The Astonishing History of Troytown" (Three Cornish cheers for Admiral Buzza and his cello, the Goodwyn-Sandyses, and other inhabitants of the idealized Fowey)
Mark Rutherford publishes "The Revolution in Tanner's Lane" (Lead, kindly light, amid more Victorian Christian gloom)
Verlaine publishes "Amour" (Hmmph. Il pleut dans mon coeur is lyrical poetry in French: It's raining in my heart misses the boat in English)
Zola publishes "La terre" (And thickwitted Anglo-Saxons assume it's a dirty book)
A.W.Pinero publishes "Sweet Lavender" (My severest critics think my own best performance was as Cayley Drummle in, God save the mark, Pinero's best piece of rubbish, "The Second Mrs Tanqueray")
Matthew Arnold dies. (Goodbye Scholar-Gypsy. The Sea is calm tonight.)
Maurice Chevalier is born. (Collaborationist! Traitor to Mistinguette! Oncle Tomas!)
Katherine Mansfield born. (Oh Bliss!)
T.S.Eliot born. (In April?)
Eugene O'Neill born. (The tragedy man cometh)
Theodor Storn, German novelist, dies. (Who he?)
Oscar Wilde publishes "The Happy Prince & Other Tales" (Love them. Weep for the swallow. Bear in mind the Professor of Aethetics's satirized remark undermining Wilde's pretence to disbelieve in moral literature. Never forget the Remarkable Rocket's particular claim to sensitivity).
George Courteline's farce "Le Train de 89h47". (Missed it)
Theodor Fontance publishes "Irrungen, Wirrungen" (And Xirrungen, Yirrungen, Zirrungen" for all it means to me)
James Ensor paints "The Entrance of Christ into Brussels (Sounds like a Walloon anticipation of Stanley Spencer)
Toulouse-Laurec paints "Place Clichy". (Can't place it....)
Irving Berlin born (And one day on his dressing room you'll find a star)
Gilbert and Sullivan produce "The Yeomen of the Guard (Strange adventure...)
Tchaikovsky produces Symphony V (and my producers at LBC decide they've found suitable introductory music for my Murders After Midnight, when I'd rather use the Mozart string quintet chromatic opening I used on CBC in Barbados)
Rimsky-Korsakov produces "Scherezade" (my son's favourite music when he was in his cot and too little to have graduated downward to Souza)
Gustav Mahler becomes director of Budapest opera. (Didn't realize he'd spent time in Hungary)
Mikola Tesler constructs the electric motor, manufactured by George Westinghouse. (And so the name of the capitalist becomes a household word and the genius is forgotten)
George Eastman perfects the Kodak camera. (Something seems meaningless about that)
Heinrish Hertz and Oliver Lodge independently identify radio waves as belonging to the same family as light waves. (Too much independent simultaneous early work in radio - cf Marconi and Popov)
The Football League founded (And would that the Cup and League could return to their simple and natural names without sponsors titles added!)
Lawn Tennis Association founded in London (Where I believe it still has to share its Wimbledon headquarters with the National Croquet Association - this seeming reaonably enougn, quite as serious a way of hitting balls over smooth grass in 1888 as it is in 2002)
J.B.Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire (Known at the time as sausage wheels, I believe)
Lawrence of Arabia born. (For two years I lived in a flat overlooking the summerhouse where he wrote 7 Pillars, in Polstead Road, Oxford)
Cecil Rhodes amalgamates the Kimberley diamond companies (It seems significantly appropriate that this entry immediately follows "Jack the Ripper murders six women in London" - a little too decisive about its number count, but less inaccurate than Vila's source!)
Aeronautical Exhibition in Vienna (So what was flying under steerable control? Were there dirigibles? If not, whence the 'nautical' part?)
'The Financial Times' first published in London. (No FT - no interest - no comment)
The first of all beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium. (Bunkum! First held by Paris in Mt Ida, won by Aphrodite; runners-up very annoyed).
Fridjthof Nansen leads an exploring party across Greenland on snowshoes. (While revering his opposition to passports and restrictive frontiers, I've never been able to feel the same about Nansen since learning that he was having it away in a hotel room with Mrs Scott while the Captain's over-financed Imperial venture was leading him to his antartctic death).
Jim Thorpe, one of the greates all-round athletes of all time, born. (I think I saw a documentary discussing him within the last few years - but I cannot remember what point it was making).
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: Vila
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 05:01 pm | | Just a quibble or three,
Martin, it's *N*icola Tesla, not Mickola. LOL!
George Westinghouse got Tesla's inventions for very little money. Tesla invents the system to generate electricty from the Niagra Falls waterfall, Westinghouse pockets the profit.
BTW, Nicola Tesla is the one who invented radio (AM & FM both), Marconi put out something that used Hertzian waves -that duplicated Tesla's earlier AM radio work. Marconi was a better publicist than Tesla, however. The US Patent Office only recently recognized Tesla as the father of radio and overturned Marconi's patent.
Tesla also was the father of alternating current (AC electricity) and invented every AC electric motor in your homes today. He invented radio control, like the ones in our toys nowadays. He invented well over half the gizmos we take for granted in our lives today, yet hardly anyone knows who he is. It's a tragic story, look into it if I've aroused your interest.
And my third quibble is that some of our Pro writer friends here ought to band together and ask the History Channel to update their JTR entry. You folks collectivly have the clout necessary to cut through the red tape. E-mail each other privately, elect a spokesperson, get in touch with the people who do the History Channel website, and petition them to change the entry to something more accurate.
Vila |
Author: Robeer
Tuesday, 18 June 2002 - 10:38 pm | | Vila,
The last is a good point. The History Channel is not yet proud of their own name or jealous of their reputation. It is my experience they are lackadaisical about accuracy. Their attitude is they are just a platform for independent productions. They refer all complaints to the producers of specials which does no good at all. Once the film is in the can the producers could care less and are on to the next project.
Maybe more protest from viewers would encourage THC to live up to their name. At this point in time they seem to take the attitude of Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?" Nevertheless, I do believe it's important to notify them of their inaccurate presentation of history and I have done so in the past. Can you outline the major discrepencies they have used pertaining to JtR? I will volunteer to write them a letter.
The point they need to understand is there is a difference between history and myth. Otherwise, instead of The History Channel they should be called The Mystery Channel, so as to comply with Truth in Advertising rules.
Robeer |
Author: Paul Begg
Wednesday, 19 June 2002 - 02:44 am | | And as reported in Ripperologist - if you're not a subscriber, then you should be - it was on 8th November 1888 that Joseph Fincher deposited his patent for tiddlywinks (originally called Tiddeldy-winks).
Also, according to some sources, it was in 1888 that an orchard in California was renamed Hollywood. |
Author: Vila
Wednesday, 19 June 2002 - 09:50 am | | Robeer,
I was complaining about THC's webpage having an inaccurate entry on JTR. About 2 posts back I copied straight from their webpage and posted their list of events in 1888 here.
THC's webmaster seems to think Jack fed the girls poisoned grapes and carved them up after they died. Since it's on a webpage and not in one of the films they've bought, they might change the entry to somethng closer to reality.
Vila |
Author: David Radka
Wednesday, 19 June 2002 - 10:39 am | | Here is a great one for the lackadaisicalness of the History Channel.
"The last execution related to the Salem Witch Trials took place in 1876."
I am astounded that the two talking heads who gave out this point are so stupid as to totally misunderstand the meaning of history. Witch trials are out of the question beginning no later than the early part of the eighteenth century--this was almost 180 years beyond imposible! It just goes to show how unqualified news readers are nowadays--they are hired purely for their personal appearance, not for journalistic professionalism.
There likely was a typographical error on the sheet they were given to read--the date should have been 1676, not 1876.
David |
Author: Christopher T George
Wednesday, 19 June 2002 - 12:01 pm | | Hi David:
You might be right that there was a typo in the History Channel information about the Salem Witch Trials. However, note that "1676" was too early.... See The Salem Witch Trials 1692. A Chronology of Events
All the best
Chris George |
Author: Jeff Bloomfield
Wednesday, 19 June 2002 - 10:10 pm | | Just a few points:
Theodor Storn - who he? I think it was
Theodor Fontane, the German novelist who wrote
Effie Brest who died in 1888. Also, T.E. Lawrence
was born in 1888, as was Snoopy's pal, Thomas
Sopwith (of "Camel" fame). In the United
States, besides Louisa May Alcott and her
father Bronson Alcott (both died in October),
Philip Sheridan, the cavalry leader of the Union
Armies (Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864) and
General - in - Chief, died. So did Morrison
Waite, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, of overwork: he had just
written what remains the longest decision in the
Court's history - the Bell v. Gray patent suit over the invention of the telephone (it is a single volume of the Supreme Court reports). Former Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, once
one of the four most powerful U.S. Senators, died
in April of the effects of exposure. He walked
up town from his offices in lower Manhattan to his
hotel in midtown during the blizzard of March 1888. He had the misfortune of getting stuck in
a snow drift for over an hour. Besides Kaiser
Wilhelm I dying (age 91) in March, his son and
heir Fritz (Friedrich III) reigned only 90 days
until he died in early June. Fritz had cancer of
the larynx, which had been misdiagnosed and
mistreated by an expert named Morrell Mackenzie.
Despite this tragic blunder, Mackenzie was knighted. Fritz was pushed off the throne before
he died by his enemy, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
(Fritz was too liberal for Bismarck) and Fritz's
neurotic older son Willy, better recalled as
Kaiser Wilhelm II of World War I fame or infamy.
Another person who died in 1888 was General Bazaine, of the French Army in Mexico, and whose
surrender of the army at Sedan in the Franco
Prussian War led to the collapse of French resistance. Bazaine had been tried and convicted
of treason in 1873, but escaped prison. He was
in exile in Spain. The aviation pioneer, William
Henson ("the aerial steam carriage" of the 1840s)
died in the United States. In January 1888
Dr. Phillip Cross, the "Coachford" poisoner of his
wife (he fell in love with his children's nanny)
was hanged by James Berry. Later in the year
came the suicide (while in American custody) of
Henry Benson, the swindler in the De Goncourt
scandal of 1876, who left a black eye on the
British police by wholesale bribery of at least
three Scotland Yard inspectors. Benson had
committed a swindle in Mexico, and was going to
be turned over to that country's police from
New York City - he did not like the tender mercies
of Mexican police, so he jumped over a bannister
on the second floor of the old Tombs.
And those were some of the passing parade of 1888. |
Author: Jack Traisson
Thursday, 20 June 2002 - 01:09 am | | The Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops was held in 1888.
In light of Stride's long association with the Swedish Church (as Sven Olsson confirmed at her inquest), I found 'Resolution 14' interesting.
"That, in the opinion of this Conference, earnest efforts should be made to establish more friendly relations between the Scandinavian and Anglican Churches; and that approaches on the part of the Swedish Church, with a view to the mutual explanation of differences, be most gladly welcomed, in order to the ultimate establishment, if possible, of intercommunion on sound principles of ecclesiastical polity."
To emphasize some of the deplorable social conditions faced by the residents of the East End in 1888, William Fishman compiled a fascinating index of some of the people directly effected.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/Indexes/EASTEND.txt
If you have his book, you can cross-reference the page numbers for more in-depth analysis
Cheers,
John |
Author: Philip C. Dowe
Thursday, 20 June 2002 - 10:39 am | | Hi,
it is Theodor Storm not Storn. And he died in 1888. Theodor Fontane died in 1898.
Philip |
Author: judy eklond
Tuesday, 06 August 2002 - 12:22 am | | | Hi All ; The Colorado boomtown Leadville was founded in 1888. It is kind of eerie to look at the realtor websites and see that almost everything was constructed in 1888. At one time it was considered a ghosttown but now seems to be making a comeback. Jay Eklond |
Author: judy eklond
Tuesday, 06 August 2002 - 12:25 am | | | Hi All ; The Colorado boomtown Leadville was founded in 1888. It is kind of eerie to look at the realtor websites and see that almost everything was constructed in 1888. At one time it was considered a ghosttown but now seems to be making a comeback. Jay Eklond |
Author: David Radka
Wednesday, 18 September 2002 - 12:29 pm | | I would like to wish all our Jewish friends a happy Yom Kippur.
Is there any way to determine exactly when Yom Kippur occured in 1888? What were the days of Yom Kippur that year?
Thank you kindly.
David |
Author: Christopher T George
Wednesday, 18 September 2002 - 03:32 pm | | Hi, David:
Great question, David, and below is the answer for the period we are interested in, the time of the canonical murders.
Using a conversion table on the JewishGen site at http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josfest.htm
Jewish Festival Dates in the Gregorian Year 1888:
Festival.... Jewish Calendar.... Gregorian Calendar
Rosh Hashana. 1 Tishri 5649; Thursday, 6 September 1888
Tzom Gedalya. 4 Tishri 5649; Sunday, 9 September 1888
Yom Kippur. 10 Tishri 5649; Saturday, 15 September 1888
Sukkot (first day). 15 Tishri 5649; Thursday, 20 September 1888
Chanukka (first day). 25 Kislev 5649; Thursday, 29 November 1888
Asara b'Tevet. 10 Tevet 5649; Friday, 14 December 1888 |
Author: David Radka
Wednesday, 18 September 2002 - 08:43 pm | | Thank you for this information.
At a first glance, I do not detect any correlation of these dates with the actions of the Whitechapel murderer. I'd appreciate expert comment and informed speculation.
David |
Author: judith stock
Wednesday, 18 September 2002 - 09:07 pm | | Since Yom Kippur is a day of atonement, I'm not sure that wishing a "happy" one is in order, but I'm sure the sentiment is expressed with a good heart.
Judy |
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