In this issue: Mystery Finder Re: Konnor Old House Today in History - Dec. 18 Johnson on trial Real Audio Re: Johnson on trial Mary Braddon's Christmas Ghost Story Today in History - Dec 19 OLD =?UNKNOWN?Q?MAN=92S?= PUNCH =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_OLD_MAN=92S_PUNCH?= "Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories" Today in History - Dec. 22 Jack London Question Re: Jack London Question Today in History - Dec 23 Re: Today in History - Dec 23 Mesmerism ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Re: Mesmerism Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Re: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Nineteenth Century Character Sketches Another Shot At Billy Re: Nineteenth Century Character Sketches Today in History - Dec. 28 -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:03:28 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Mystery Finder I've just discovered The Troutworks Mystery Guide at http://www.troutworks.com/ -- it seems to be a marvelous way to find books. Once you find a book you have enjoyed listed in the database, it gives you suggestions of other mystery novels you might also like. I think you can then buy the books if you want. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 08:44:32 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Konnor Old House >I don't know that I can wholeheartedly agree that this tale smacks of a >racist Frankly I didn't get that feeling either. When I read the story I thought of it in the same way. I wondered about the differences in climates and certainly the fact that Jake was killed, too, means something got out of hand. I had surmised the daughter had gone slowly insane from an infection of it and committed suicide, sexual and racial overtones were simply not there. The "white shining" figure struck me first as a serious ectoplasmic vision and wondered why the shining (shades of Stephen King) or was this just a type of ghost that was prevalent in spiritualism at the time. Of course, that is soon explained in a very grisly way. Does science and reason prevail all the time over peasant magic? Do we have to go into ta situation with only logic on our side? Well, as demonstrated in Sherlock Holmes "there is no room for ghosts" and the Hound was merely a mistreated dog painted with phosphorous. That's what I thought we would find here more than an ectoplasmic manifestation. A spooky and well read story. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:20:10 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Dec. 18 1862 Nathan B. Forrest engages and defeats a Federal cavalry force near Lexington in his continued effort to disrupt supply lines. 1862 Grant announces the organization of his army in the West. Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand are to be Corps Commanders. 1915 In a single night, about 20,000 Australian and New Zealand troops slip away from Gallipoli, undetected by the Turks defending the peninsula. 1916 The Battle of Verdun ends with the French and Germans each having suffered more than 330,000 killed and wounded in 10 months. Born on December 18 1879 Paul Klee, Swiss abstract painter best known for The Mocker Mocked. 1886 Ty [Tyrus Raymond] Cobb, American baseball player, first man to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1913 Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin and Chancellor of West Germany.
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:47:33 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Johnson on trial Without in the least wanting to start _any_ discussion of the current events in the U.S. capitol (God presarve us!), I thought Gaslighters might be interested in this cogent report on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson (_our_ era) from Time magazine's home page. Bob C. AN IMPEACHMENT LONG AGO: ANDREW JOHNSON'S SAGA By ADAM COHEN If there had been a TV show Andrew Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton. Political character assassination was alive and well long before cable TV and the Internet. Forget Vince Foster conspiracy theories-- 1860s Republicans charged that Johnson, when he was Vice President, aided in Abraham Lincoln's assassination so he could move up to the top job. Monica Lewinsky pales beside Jennie Perry, who blackmailed Johnson with charges that he fathered an illegitimate son. And Johnson's critics claimed he was conspiring to help the defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, elected Governor before he became President and tormented by Republican foes--would have a lot to talk about. The drive to impeach Johnson, the only President to be impeached and tried in the Senate, was really about the politics of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans who controlled Congress took a hard line toward Dixie. Johnson was no Confederate; he was the only Southern Congressman not to secede when his state did. But he vetoed bills that he viewed as too punitive against former slave owners, and he resisted military rule over the Southern states. Republicans were so irate, said Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, that they would have impeached Johnson "had he been accused of stepping on a dog's tail." Technically, Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a Radical Republican sympathizer. Johnson's enemies said the dismissal violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law that was later judged to be unconstitutional. The legislators threw in a few other charges, including conspiracy and bringing Congress into disrepute. "A shaggy mountain of malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse was the result!" If the charges against Johnson were weak, his defense was at times Clintonian. His lawyers argued he could not have "conspired" with Stanton's successor because a Commander in Chief gives orders, which his subordinate has no choice but to accept. And they argued that the federal conspiracy law did not apply, because it covered only states and "territories," and Washington was neither. Johnson tried to build popular support by launching a speaking tour-- dubbed his "Swing Around the Circle"--but he was heckled in St. Louis, Mo., and told by an Indianapolis, Ind., mob to "shut up." Like some of Clinton's televised explaining and finger wagging, Johnson's p.r. offensive hurt his cause. The debate in the House was boisterous and nasty. A Congressman said Johnson had dragged the robes of his office through "the purlieus and filth of treason." Another called his advisers "the worst men that ever crawled like filthy reptiles at the footstool of power." The outcome was never in doubt. On Feb. 24, 1868, Johnson was impeached by a party-line vote of 126 to 47, and 11 articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate. Johnson was tried there, with the proceedings presided over by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The House sent a "board of managers," heavy with Radical Republicans, to argue for impeachment. Johnson, defended by a bipartisan team of lawyers, did not attend. The trial was a great spectacle--the galleries were packed--but few new facts came to light. To get the two-thirds needed to convict, the Republicans could afford only six defections from their ranks. It all came down to Senator Edmund Ross, a Kansas Republican and the only fence-sitter. Ross was "hunted like a fox" by both sides, the New York Tribune wrote. In the end, he backed Johnson, who was kept in office by a single vote. Defecting to Johnson came at a cost. None of the seven Republican Senators who crossed party lines was re-elected. Ross was shunned by friends--one wire from home declared that "Kansas repudiates you as she does all perjurers and skunks"--and he ended his life in near poverty. But history has sided with Ross and his fellow defectors. Nearly a century later, John F. Kennedy put Ross in his book Profiles in Courage. By rising above partisanship and the passions of the day, Kennedy wrote, Ross "may well have preserved for ourselves and posterity constitutional government in the United States." _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robert L. Champ rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity Those who are alive receive a mandate from those who are silent forever. They can fulfill their duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely things as they were and by wresting the past from fictions and legends. --Czeslaw Milosz rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net _________________________________________________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:19:01 -0500 (EST) From: MMaryET(at)aol.com Subject: Real Audio Thanks much for all the help in locating Real Audio. Wow! Another fun toy! Mary T MaryET(at)aol.com http://members.aol.com/MMary111/index.html
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:06:52 -0600 From: smdawes(at)home.com Subject: Re: Johnson on trial Interestingly enough, Stanton was also one of the more secret suspects in Lincoln's assassination. Marta Robert Champ wrote: > > Without in the least wanting to start _any_ discussion of the current > events in the U.S. capitol (God presarve us!), I thought Gaslighters > might be interested in this cogent report on the impeachment of > Andrew Johnson (_our_ era) from Time magazine's home page. > > Bob C. > > AN IMPEACHMENT LONG AGO: ANDREW JOHNSON'S SAGA > By ADAM COHEN > > If there had been a TV show Andrew Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, > New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. > Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson > "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a > crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort > till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have > offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One > Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, > despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill > Clinton. > > Political character assassination was alive and well long before > cable TV and the Internet. Forget Vince Foster conspiracy theories-- > 1860s Republicans charged that Johnson, when he was Vice President, > aided in Abraham Lincoln's assassination so he could move up to > the top job. Monica Lewinsky pales beside Jennie Perry, who > blackmailed Johnson with charges that he fathered an illegitimate > son. And Johnson's critics claimed he was conspiring to help the > defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, > the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, > elected Governor before he became President and tormented by > Republican foes--would have a lot to talk about. The drive to > impeach Johnson, the only President to be impeached and tried > in the Senate, was really about the politics of post-Civil War > Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans who controlled Congress > took a hard line toward Dixie. Johnson was no Confederate; he > was the only Southern Congressman not to secede when his state > did. But he vetoed bills that he viewed as too punitive against > former slave owners, and he resisted military rule over the > Southern states. Republicans were so irate, said Secretary of > the Navy Gideon Welles, that they would have impeached Johnson > "had he been accused of stepping on a dog's tail." > > Technically, Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of > War, Edwin Stanton, who was a Radical Republican sympathizer. > Johnson's enemies said the dismissal violated the Tenure of Office > Act, a law that was later judged to be unconstitutional. The > legislators threw in a few other charges, including conspiracy > and bringing Congress into disrepute. "A shaggy mountain of > malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson > biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse > was the result!" > > If the charges against Johnson were weak, his defense was at > times Clintonian. His lawyers argued he could not have "conspired" > with Stanton's successor because a Commander in Chief gives orders, > which his subordinate has no choice but to accept. And they argued > that the federal conspiracy law did not apply, because it covered > only states and "territories," and Washington was neither. Johnson > tried to build popular support by launching a speaking tour-- > dubbed his "Swing Around the Circle"--but he was heckled in St. > Louis, Mo., and told by an Indianapolis, Ind., mob to "shut up." > Like some of Clinton's televised explaining and finger wagging, > Johnson's p.r. offensive hurt his cause. > > The debate in the House was boisterous and nasty. A Congressman > said Johnson had dragged the robes of his office through "the > purlieus and filth of treason." Another called his advisers > "the worst men that ever crawled like filthy reptiles at the > footstool of power." The outcome was never in doubt. On Feb. > 24, 1868, Johnson was impeached by a party-line vote of 126 to 47, > and 11 articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate. > Johnson was tried there, with the proceedings presided over by > Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The House sent a "board of managers," > heavy with Radical Republicans, to argue for impeachment. > Johnson, defended by a bipartisan team of lawyers, did not attend. > The trial was a great spectacle--the galleries were packed--but > few new facts came to light. > > To get the two-thirds needed to convict, the Republicans could > afford only six defections from their ranks. It all came down to > Senator Edmund Ross, a Kansas Republican and the only fence-sitter. > Ross was "hunted like a fox" by both sides, the New York Tribune > wrote. In the end, he backed Johnson, who was kept in office by > a single vote. Defecting to Johnson came at a cost. None of the > seven Republican Senators who crossed party lines was re-elected. > Ross was shunned by friends--one wire from home declared that > "Kansas repudiates you as she does all perjurers and skunks"--and > he ended his life in near poverty. But history has sided with > Ross and his fellow defectors. Nearly a century later, John F. > Kennedy put Ross in his book Profiles in Courage. By rising > above partisanship and the passions of the day, Kennedy wrote, > Ross "may well have preserved for ourselves and posterity > constitutional government in the United States." > > _________________________________________________ > (at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at) > > Robert L. Champ > rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu > Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity > > Those who are alive receive a mandate from those > who are silent forever. They can fulfill their > duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely > things as they were and by wresting the past > from fictions and legends. > --Czeslaw Milosz > > rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net > _________________________________________________ > (at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)(at)
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:37:28 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Willis <c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Mary Braddon's Christmas Ghost Story Hi! The text of Mary Braddon's Christmas ghost story "At Chrighton Abbey" is now available at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3783/chrighton.html Happy Christmas and all the best for 1999! Chris - ---------------------- Chris Willis (Ms) English Department Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Departments/English/pages/~cwillis/ e-mail: c.willis(at)english.bbk.ac.uk
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:26:49 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Dec 19 1862 Nathan B. Forrest is tearing up the railroads in Grant and Rosecrans' rear, causing considerable delays in the movement of Union supplies. 1900 Parliament votes amnesty for all involved in army treason trial known as the Dreyfus Affair. 1909 U.S. socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class. Born on December 19 1790 Sir William Parry, England, Arctic explorer 1906 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist arty and President of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 until 1982.
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:43:58 -0800 From: Alan Gullette <alang(at)creative.net> Subject: OLD =?UNKNOWN?Q?MAN=92S?= PUNCH he following was sent me by one Ron Hilger, devout fan of C.A. Smith and other masters of the weird. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was, of course, a Gaslight author. I have not tried the recipe myself but am greatly tempted to do so! OLD MAN?S PUNCH This old English recipe was included in a letter dated Jan. 16, 1925 from Arthur Machen to Montgomery Evans. The recipe itself is at least several hundred years old. Pour a bottle of Rum into an earthen jar. Take 3 dessert spoonfuls of Green China Tea and make a brew equal in bulk to the Rum. After 3 or 4 minutes, add the Green Tea to the Rum. Take 6 lemons. Grate the rind of each lemon with a cube of sugar. Add the sugar to the Rum. Express the juice of the Six Lemons and add it to the Rum, straining, if you please, through muslin. Take 6 oranges and use them, in all respects, as you used the lemons. All this while the jar should either be standing before a good fire, or be set on a hot plate. Taste it now, and add cube sugar to taste. The Punch is now ready. Keep it hot before the fire or on the plate. And be most particular to muffle the mouth of the jar all the while. Cheers to all!
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:57:04 -0500 From: JDS Books <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_OLD_MAN=92S_PUNCH?= Gee, I'm not sure I want to try any recipe suggested by the author of "The White Powder"! And we all remember what "Green Tea" can do to you. Happy Holidays, one & all! John Squires - -----Original Message----- From: Alan Gullette <alang(at)creative.net> To: Gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA <Gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA> Date: Saturday, December 19, 1998 3:49 PM Subject: OLD MAN?S PUNCH he following was sent me by one Ron Hilger, devout fan of C.A. Smith and other masters of the weird. Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was, of course, a Gaslight author. I have not tried the recipe myself but am greatly tempted to do so! OLD MAN?S PUNCH This old English recipe was included in a letter dated Jan. 16, 1925 from Arthur Machen to Montgomery Evans. The recipe itself is at least several hundred years old. Pour a bottle of Rum into an earthen jar. Take 3 dessert spoonfuls of Green China Tea and make a brew equal in bulk to the Rum. After 3 or 4 minutes, add the Green Tea to the Rum. Take 6 lemons. Grate the rind of each lemon with a cube of sugar. Add the sugar to the Rum. Express the juice of the Six Lemons and add it to the Rum, straining, if you please, through muslin. Take 6 oranges and use them, in all respects, as you used the lemons. All this while the jar should either be standing before a good fire, or be set on a hot plate. Taste it now, and add cube sugar to taste. The Punch is now ready. Keep it hot before the fire or on the plate. And be most particular to muffle the mouth of the jar all the while. Cheers to all!
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:08:42 -0600 (CST) From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net> Subject: "Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories" A while back someone (perhaps Stephen D. ?) asked for dates relating to the M.R. James collection "Twelve Medieval Ghost Stories". Perhaps the query has already been answered. If not, here is what I find: The stories were originally written down approx. the year 1400. James published them with notes, but untranslated from the latin, in The English Historical Review for July, 1922. A translation by Pamela Chamberlain appeared in 1982 in a Peter Haining anthology of leftover James stuff entitled _The Book Of Ghost Stories_. Hope this helps. James James Michael Rogers jetan(at)ionet.net Mundus Vult Decipi
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:21:26 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Dec. 22 1807 Congress passes the Embargo Act, which halts all trading completely. It is hoped that the act will keep the United States out the European Wars. 1829 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the first passenger railway line. 1918 The last of the food restrictions, that had been enforced because of the shortages during World War I, are lifted. Born on December 22 1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State who tried to outlaw war with the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian operatic composer best known for Madam Butterfly. 1883 Arthur Wergs Mitchell, first African-American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 1912 Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:17:45 -0500 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Jack London Question One of the "Jeopardy" answers in a dog category was a Jack London story, called (spelling optional) "Jerry of the Islands". Does anyone know if this is just a short story about a terrier on some island somewhere, a book, or non-existant? I did try amazon with the title, but if it's a short story they don't apparently catalog in that detail. Thanks to all. Have a merry and a happy whatever. same for next year. Linda Anderson
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:54:45 -0600 From: smdawes(at)home.com Subject: Re: Jack London Question Try this link: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/JerryOfTheIslands/ It looks to be a full sized book. Marta Linda Anderson wrote: > > One of the "Jeopardy" answers in a dog category was a Jack London story, > called (spelling optional) "Jerry of the Islands". Does anyone know if > this is just a short story about a terrier on some island somewhere, a > book, or non-existant? I did try amazon with the title, but if it's a > short story they don't apparently catalog in that detail. > > Thanks to all. Have a merry and a happy whatever. same for next year. > > Linda Anderson
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:37:10 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Dec 23 1861 Lord Lyons, The British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair. 1900 The Federal Party, which recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines. 1919 Britain institutes a new constitution for India. Born on December 23 1777 Alexander I, Czar of Russia. 1805 Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church. 1867 Madame C. J. Walker, first female African American millionaire.
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:37:09 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History - Dec 23 In a message dated 12/23/98 6:40:32 PM, you wrote: << 1867 Madame C. J. Walker, first female African American millionaire. >> My "Women Who Dare" calendar -- and you all knew I was cribbing from somewhere - -- notes this as well, but puts it: Mme C. J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove), self-made cosmetics magnate and philanthropist, 1867. Geese are getting fat. Anybody here got a penny or a ha' penny for the old man's hat? Well... joys of the season phoebe
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:30:10 -0500 From: "Roberts, Leonard" <lroberts(at)email.uncc.edu> Subject: Mesmerism I have a vague memory of someone on the list asking a question about mesmerism. Whether or not that is so, I thought this book on the subject sounded interesting and in our time period. A review of it appears in the London Times today. Mesmerized, Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, by Alison Winter reviewed by Peter Ackroyd Len Roberts
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:10:25 -0600 (CST) From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net> Subject: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. This is the time of year in which treacly Victoriana is jammed down one's throat in quantities that has even me reaching for the Pepcid. Nonetheless, a very Merry Christmas to all the souls on Gaslight. Dominus vobiscum, drive safely, and all that. James James Michael Rogers jetan(at)ionet.net Mundus Vult Decipi
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:23:53 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. >Nonetheless, a very Merry Christmas to all the souls on Gaslight. Dominus >vobiscum, drive safely, and all that. Happy Solstice, and merry wren day on the Feast of St. Stephens. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:57:28 -0700 (MST) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Deborah McMillion Nering wrote: > Happy Solstice, and merry wren day on the Feast of St. Stephens. > Deborah "The wren, the wren, the King of the birds, On Stephen's Day it's caught in the furze. We'll hunt the wren, says Robbin to Bobbin, We'll hunt the wren, says every one" (Manx rhyme) Hop tu Naa, Peter Wood
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:27:01 -0800 (PST) From: John Schilke <schilkej(at)ohsu.EDU> Subject: Re: Mesmerism If anyone would like more information on mesmerism or Mesmer himself, please contact me privately or via the List. I am a retired physician with a special interest in and (former) use of clinical hypnosis (or mesmerism). A merry Christmas to all on the List! John
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:25:48 -0600 From: Marsha Valance <tributefarm(at)MIXCOM.COM> Subject: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. HO! HO! HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT! , , , , , ( / ( / ( / ( / ( / /(at)/ ._,--'/ ) ,--'/ ) ,--'/ ) ,--'/ ) ,--'/ )* ]Xxx/ /|"/> /|"/> /|"/> /|"/> /|"/> Peace, love, and laughter always, !,! Marsha Valance o : o Andy (Andre Norton), Tony (Tony Fennelly) & Vance (Jack Vance) : Tribute Farm Morgans--old gov't/Lambert/WWF bloodlines ,:, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA <tributefarm(at)mixcom.com> _ <http://www.angelfire.com/wi/tributefarm/index.html> - ---------- > From: p.h.wood <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. > Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 1:57 PM > > On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Deborah McMillion Nering wrote: > > Happy Solstice, and merry wren day on the Feast of St. Stephens. > > Deborah > > "The wren, the wren, the King of the birds, > On Stephen's Day it's caught in the furze. > We'll hunt the wren, says Robbin to Bobbin, > We'll hunt the wren, says every one" > (Manx rhyme) > > Hop tu Naa, > Peter Wood >
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 01:52:05 -0500 (EST) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: ....And God Bless The Gaslighters, Every One. Christmas is coming The geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you don't have a penny Then a ha' penny will do. If you don't have a ha' penny Then God bless you! Peace on Earth. From chilly New England, phoebe
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:05:03 -0500 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net> Subject: Nineteenth Century Character Sketches The Northern Scot newspaper, in its online edition, is publishing a small collection of vignettes about eccentric men who once lived in Elgin. The series originally ran in the late 19th century, but the subjects of these little stories lived earlier. I think Gaslighters will enjoy reading them. Each story is accompanied by a photo or drawing of the subject. Here's the URL: http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/echoes.html If you can't get the stories online, send me email with 1225A in the Subject line and my computer will automatically email the lot to you, with pix attached. Cheers, Jim - ----------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman, Travel Consultant All About Travel, West Palm Beach, Florida 561-966-9614 -- 800-327-8785 mailto:jkearman(at)iname.com http://www.gate.net/~jkearman
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:11:48 -0500 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)gate.net> Subject: Another Shot At Billy An article in the WWW edition of the Sunday (London) Times for December 27 discusses a theory proposed by Fintan O'Toole, an Irish historian, regarding Billy the Kid, whom we discussed earlier this year. According to O'Toole, Billy was an Irish Catholic who converted to Protestantism, which put him on the side of John Tunstall, a British protestant, against Lawrence Murphy, who led a powerful group of Irish Catholic settlers. The article is in the first section of the website, titled "It's Billy the 'sectarian killer' Kid." If you can't get the article, send me email with 1226A in the Subject line and my computer will automatically send you a copy. Cheers, Jim - ----------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman, Travel Consultant All About Travel, West Palm Beach, Florida 561-966-9614 -- 800-327-8785 mailto:jkearman(at)iname.com http://www.gate.net/~jkearman
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 05:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: ex875(at)CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU (Lila P. Bess) Subject: Re: Nineteenth Century Character Sketches 1225A Would love the stories! - -- p
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:57:06 -0700 From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org> Subject: Today in History - Dec. 28 1846 Iowa admitted as the 29th State. 1872 A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier. 1904 Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices. Born on December 28 1856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, who brought the country into World War I. 1882 Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer who confirmed Eistein's theory of relativity. ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #33 *****************************