Quotes About 1888

Alas, Measured Perfectly Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:20 P.M. is the name of a photograph of two old women in a front yard, beside a white house. One of the women is sitting in a chair with a dog in her lap. The other woman is looking at some flowers. Perhaps the women are happy, but then it is Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:21 P.M., and all over.

The word 'unemployment' first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1888 – a sign of things to come

One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street.

Puente levadizo y dama con sombrilla, MAYO DE 1888, TINTA Y TIZA SOBRE PAPEL, 60 X 31,9 CM © Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Ángeles, CA, USA.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

The 1888 presidential election would go down as the most corrupt in the history of the United States.

Prostitution has been called the oldest profession and prostitutes have always been a part of the history of the human race. So have serial killers, but they managed to elude attention until the infamous Jack the Ripper killed five prostitutes between August and November 1888 in London.