Monday, November 1, 2021

Part 1, Where Cranly led me to get rich quick - knew the dishonours of their flesh. ****19

.Stephen remembers a horse race.
.Deasy gives Stephen a letter for the newspaper.
.Deasy says some antisemitic garbage.
.Stephen has a day dream about what Deasy said.

(Full stop, Mr Deasy bade his keys. But prompt ventilation of this allimportant question...)

Stephen, thinks about a horse race, I think?
*Last chance edit, yes he does.*

Where Cranly led me to get rich quick, hunting his winners among the mudsplashed brakes, amid the bawls of bookies on their pitches and reek of the canteen, over the motley slush. Fair Rebel! Fair Rebel! Even money the favourite: ten to one the field. Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vyping caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.

Where Cranly led me to get rich quick, hunting his winners among the mudsplashed brakes,
Where Cranly led me to get rich quick looking for his winners among the carriages splashed in mud,

amid the bawls of bookies on their pitches and reek of the canteen,
in the middle of the shouts of bookies on their playing fields and the odor of the bar,
or
in the middle of the shouts of bookies on their attempts to persuade people into spending money and the odor of the bar,

over the motley slush.
over the multicolored slush.
over the multicolored mud.
over the mud littered with horse race tickets.

Fair Rebel! Fair Rebel! Even money the favourite: ten to one the field.
"A horse named Fair Rebel! I am offering an Even money wager for Fair Rebel, the horse that is expected to win. I am also offering ten dollars for every one dollar that is bet on the rest of the horses as one group."

Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets
Dice players and shell game hustlers, we hurried by, following the horse feet, the caps and jackets representing the competing racers. 

and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.
and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, pushing her nose and mouth into an orange wedge.

ALTOGETHER NOW!

Where Cranly led me to get rich quick, looking for his winners among the carriages splashed in mud, in the middle of the shouts of bookies on their playing fields and the odor of the bar,
or, in the middle of the shouts of bookies with their attempts to persuade people into spending money and the odor of the bar, over the mud littered with horse race tickets.  "A horse named Fair Rebel! I am offering an even money wager for Fair Rebel, the horse that is expected to win. I am also offering ten dollars for every one dollar that is bet on the rest of the horses as one group."  Dice players and shell game hustlers, we hurried by, following the horse feet, the caps and jackets representing the competing racers and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, pushing her nose and mouth into an orange wedge.

Stephen is distracted by the sounds of the kids playing outside.

Again: a goal. I am among them, among their battling bodies in a medley, the joust of life. You mean that knockkneed mother's darling who seems to be slightly crawsick? Jousts. Time shocked rebounds, shock by shock. Jousts, slush and uproar of battles, the frozen deathspew of the slain, a shout of spearspikes baited with mens bloodied guts

Wow. 

Again: a goal.
Is this an Alliteration? Assonance? Consonance? I love it.

I am among them,  among their battling bodies in a medley,  the joust of life.
I am among them, among their mixed up fighting bodies, the competition of supremacy of life.

You mean that knockkneed mother's darling, who seems to be slightly crawsick?
Do you mean that mother's boy with knees that are too close together,  who seems to be slightly hungover?

Jousts. Time shocked rebounds, shock by shock.
competitions for supremacy. 

Time shocked rebounds
rebounds shocked by time
being abruptly bounced through time
Time=memory
Memory shocked rebounds
Rebounds shocked by memory
rebounds=memory
Time shocked memory

Time shocked rebounds
being shocked back to the present moment

Jousts. Time shocked rebounds, shock by shock.
Competitions for supremacy, being shocked back to the present moment, over and over.

Maybe, this is something that I am trying to see.  I have been practicing more in mindfulness,  and I have noticed that I have a tendency to equate new ideas, with my more favored ideas.

Does 'Time shocked rebounds' mean being abruptly reminded of the here and now?  Or am I missing it?

Deasy explains while Stephen reads his typed letter about foot and mouth disease.

May I trespass on your valuable space.  That doctrine of 'laissez faire' which so often in our history. Our cattle trade. The way of all our old industries. Liverpool ring which jockeyed the Galway harbour scheme.  European conflagration.  Grain supplies through the narrow waters of the channel.  The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture.  Pardoned a classical allusion.  Cassandra.  By a woman who was no better than she should be. To come to point at issue.
 
Deasy interrupts. "I don't mince words do I?"
Yes sir, you do.

Foot and mouth disease.  Known as Koch's Preparation.  Serum and virus.  Percentage of salted horses. Rinderpest.  Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, Lower Austria. Veterinary surgeons. Mr Henry Blackwood Price.  Courteous offer a fair trial.  Dictates of common sense.  Allimportant question.  In every sense of the word take the bull by the horns.  Thanking you for the hospitality of your columns.

First thought: There are a whole lot of periods but no sentences.

Insofar as I understand.  A sentence has two things but sometimes one of those things are invisible.  A noun and a verb phrase. 

I slapped a watermelon.
"I" is the noun and "slapped a watermelon" is the verb phrase, and "slapped" is the verb.

But what about "I am a watermelon."?  What is the verb phrase there? "am a watermelon.". That used to mess me up too.  I did not now that words like am, is, and are are verbs.

But what about the invisible thing? 
You, You are invisible, sometimes.  Let that sink in a second. I'll wait.

Let that sink in a second?  Is that a sentence?  Where is that noun?
Check it out. You are that noun.  But over the years, we have grown and evolved into wise old apes that can now just imply the You. When I say "let that sink in a second." I really mean. "You let that sink in a second" Pretty cool huh?

Anyway, Deasy is just saying names with capital letters and periods.  This could be how things were just done then and there.  I'm not going to bother looking that up.  Actually, I am going to take this as another example of Deasy's arrogance and ignorance.

Foot and mouth disease. Known as Koch's Preparation.
Incorrect, Foot and mouth disease, known as Koch's Postulations.

Which is still wrong.

Koch's Postulations is the method used to figure out the virus that causes diseases such as foot and mouth.  But in this case, it was Friedrich Loeffler who discovered that virus.

Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, Lower Austria

I have to say, this guy is very confusing and making my job very difficult.  I do not now anything about any horses at Mürzsteg, 

Emperor's House(?) at Mürzteg, Lower Austria.

Good god, this guy is an idiot. 
 
Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, lower Austria.

Ok, first, let's get ride of any idea of horses
The Emperor's house at Mürzsteg, lower Austria.
The Mürzsteg Hunting Lodge, lower Austria
The Mürzsteg Hunting lodge, more in the eastern middle part of Austria.
or 
The Mürzsteg Hunting lodge, Lower Austria. (notice the capital 'L')
This is still wrong.  At first, I thought we were meaning "southern" Austria.  This was until I realized there is actually state named Lower Austria, which is east of Upper Austria and north of Styria.  Which is where Mürzsteg is actually located.

So.  What Mr. Deasy might be trying so say is:
The Emperor's horses, (confusing horse with house, I would consider a stretch, but Deasy is an idiot.) Styria.

I guess it would make sense that the Emperor would have horses at The MHL, but I don't know anything about it.

This has turned into quite a mess.  Let's clean up here.  

Mr Deasy writes a letter and he wants Stephen to give it to his smart friends.  While reading this letter. You find out that Deasy, a man in charge of developing children's minds, is very confused about a lot of things including the general structure English grammar.  Here is the full letter he has written: 

    'May I trespass on your valuable space. That doctrine of 'laissez faire' which so often in our history. Our cattle trade. The way of all our old industries. Liverpool ring which jockeyed the Galway harbour scheme. European conflagration. Grain supplies through the narrow waters of the channel. The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture. Pardoned a classical allusion. Cassandra. By a woman who was no better than she should be. To come to the point at issue.
    Foot and mouth disease. Known as Koch's preparation. Serum and virus. Percentage of salted horses. Rinderpest. Emperor's horses at Murzsteg, lower Austria. Veterinary surgeons. Mr Henry Blackwood price. Courteous offer a fair trial. Dictates of common sense. Allimportant question. In every sense of the word. Take the bull by the the horns. Thanking you for the hospitality  of your columns.'
 
His basic gist, as far as I can tell, is that this is a message of warning.  Saying that foot and mouth disease will cause a big problem in Ireland if the department of Agriculture doesn't step in and do something. 

This is a legit worry, but instead of laying his concern out in plan English to be considered, I believe, because he believes that this will be printed in a paper, he has to make it as flowery as he can, not realizing that he has no idea what he is doing and is making no sense.

Interesting thing though.  Part about Cassandra. and maybe he seems aware of this.  He is  comparing her to himself, and if things turn out like he says, he will have his told-ya-so moment. Making him, by his reasoning, right the whole time.

I don't know, I might be way off.  This guy gives me a headache and I want him to go away.

Deasy explains his woes to Stephen, and is backed up by his cousin, Henry Blackwood price.  He continues to complain that he would have better luck getting the word out except for a small problem...

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2...

1...

Mark my words, Mr Dedalus, he said. England is in the hands of the jews.  In all the highest places: her finance, her press.  And they are the signs of a nation's decay.  Wherever they gather they eat up the nations vital strength. I have seen it coming these years.  As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is crying.

This seems to be pretty self explanatory. And unfortunately, I'm learning that this sentiment was more popular than I think I originally thought.

Stephen is reminded of a poem by my boy, Blake.

The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's windingsheet.        His eyes open wide in vision stared sternly across the sunbeam in which it halted.

His eyes open wide in vision stared sternly across the sunbeam in which it halted.
Wow.

Stephen stands tall.
A merchant, Stephen said, is one who buys cheap and sells dear, jew or gentile, is he not?
 
But Deasy isn't interested in changing his mind.

We are brought to a new mental scene:

On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers.  Gabble of geese. They swarmed loud uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats. Not theirs: these clothes, this speech, these gestures. Their full slow eyes belied the words, the gestures eager and unoffending, but knew the rancour massed about them and knew their zeal was vain. Vain patience to heap and hoard. Time surely would scatter all. All hoard heaped by the roadside: plundered and passing on. Their eyes knew their years of wandering and patient, knew the dishonours of flesh.

On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers.
On the steps of the Bourse de commerce the tan men are quoting prices on their ringed fingers.

Gabble of geese.
The rapid and unintelligible talk of geese.

We could be talking about the goose that lays the golden eggs.  In this case it could be referring to people not wanting to lose a source of income.

The rapid and unintelligible talk of people working to maintain their income

Gabble of geese.
A play on the collective noun, Gaggle of geese.

They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, 
The unintelligible people, now being represented as geese, gathered in a frenzy manner around manner around the temple.

about the temple,
Matthew 21:12
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.

They swarmed loud, uncouth about the temple, 
The unintelligible people, now being represented as geese, gathered in a frenzy manner around manner around the Paris stock exchange now represented as a holy place,

their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats. 
their heads making complicated, possibly mischieveous money making plans under impractical silk hats, maybe top hats or berets.

Not theirs: these clothes, this speech, these gesture. 
These do not belong to those people though: my clothing, the way I speak, the way I carry myself.

Their full slow eyes belied the words, the gestures eager and unoffending,
The people's full slow eyes contradict the words, the eager and unoffending gestures,
cf. His eyes open wide in vision stared sternly across the sunbeam in which it halted.

but knew the rancours massed about them and knew their zeal was vain.
but knew the deep bitterness assembled around them and understood their passion was useless.
or
but knew the deep bitterness assembled around them and understood their passion was an elevated view of their image.

Vain patience to heap and hoard.
Useless patience to pile up  and stash away.

Jame Joyce was smarter than me.  There is no disputing that, but if he was to ask my opinion about an another option in the wording of that sentence, I would say:

Feign patience. To heap and hoard.
To pretend to be affected by patience. To pile up and stash away.  

Time surely would scatter all.
cf.  but knew the rancours massed about them  (scatter vs. mass)

Time surely would scatter all. 
Eventually everything will probably scatter and disperse.

A hoard heaped by the roadside: plundered and passing on.
A large collection of objects piled up on the roadside: stolen and ignored while driving past.

Their eyes knew their years of wandering and, patient, knew the dishonours of their flesh.
The french peoples eyes were aware of how long they have been wondering, being very patient, they knew the shame of their own flesh.


Wow. I'm speechless..

Stephens wandering mind has made so many connections.

Hold on.


On the steps of the Bourse de commerce the tan men are quoting prices on their ringed fingers.The rapid and unintelligible talk of geese and people working to maintain their income.  The unintelligible people, now being represented as geese, gathered in a frenzy manner around the Paris stock exchange now represented as a holy place, their heads making complicated, possibly mischievous money making plans while wearing impractical silk hats, maybe top hats or berets. These do not belong to those unintelligible people though: my clothing, the way I speak, the way I carry myself.  The unintelligible people's full slow eyes contradict the words, their eager and unoffending gestures, but knew the deep bitterness  assembled around them and understood their passion was useless or an elevated view of their image.  Useless patience to pile up  and stash away.  Eventually everything will probably scatter and disperse.  A large collection of objects piled up on the roadside: stolen and ignored while driving past.  The unintelligible people's eyes were aware of how long they have been wondering, being very patient, they knew the shame of their own flesh.

While breaking down that last paragraph to something I could understand, I wasn't quite sure who he was talking about.  I was working under the assumption that he was talking about french people (Paris stock exchange).  After putting all of the parts back together, I realize, or I guess I assume, His mind is wandering, making a mental scene, of Deasy's idea of Jews.

But what about the goose part?  This is quite a stretch.  Well, Goose is kosher.  And that paragraph was pretty well dedicated to making Jewish folks look bad.  Maybe it is just another insult to pile one.  

Seriously though.  look at this again!


On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers.  

Gabble of geese. 

They swarmed loud uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk hats. 

Not theirs: these clothes, this speech, these gestures. 

Their full slow eyes belied the words, the gestures eager and unoffending, but knew the rancour massed about them and knew their zeal was vain. 

Vain patience to heap and hoard. 

Time surely would scatter all. 

All hoard heaped by the roadside: plundered and passing on. 

Their eyes knew their years of wandering and patient, knew the dishonours of flesh.




Characters

Cranly - Went with Stephen to a horse race.

Deasy - Antisemitic

Henry Blackwood Price - Mr Deasy's cousin.


Glossary

Brake - A horse-drawn carriage, used in the 1800's and early 1900's. They were used to train horses for farm/draft work.

Bawl - a loud shout

Reek -  A strong or disagreeable smell.

Motley - have an appearance or character that is out of place with its surroundings; To be so different beyond comparison. (Apples vs. Oranges).

The costume of a court jester.

Even Money - A wagering proposition with even odds.  The one who does the betting stands to lose or win the same amount of money.  A 50/50 probability.

Field (Horse racing/betting) - All of the runners in a particular race. 

Favorite vs Field Bet - When the book keeper in charge of keeping track of bets offers a wager between 'Favorite' and the rest of the runners. Common practice in both horse and golf wagers.

Favorite (Horse racing/betting) - The most popular horse at the race and is giving the lowest odds because it has the best chance of winning.

Dicer - A gambler who plays dice

Thimblerig - Also called 'shell game'.  That game where one person shuffles three cups, and you have to follow the one with the thing underneath it.

Vying - Competing 

Nuzzling -  To rub or push up against with the nose or mouth.

Medley -  A mixture, or a Motley of various things or people.

Joust - A close competition for supremacy
or
horseback competition involving opponent running at each other with lances.  Popular at renaissance festivals.

Knock Knees - When a persons knees point inward, so that when their feet are apart, their knees are touching

Crawsick - Hungover

(Not) Mincing Words - To explain something (usually bad news) in a clear and direct manner, so there will not be any misunderstanding.

Salted Horse -  A horse that was infected and survived with a disease called nagana, so they are less likely to catch it again.

Interestingly, 'salted' is translated from the Afrikaans word 'gesout' in the context of 'being accustomed; immune, pickled, salted, or seasoned'

Rinderpest -  An infectious viral disease of split hooved  animals. It caused fever, oral erosions, diarrhea, lymphoid necrosis and High mortality, almost 100%.  Thought to be one of the Hebrew Bible's 10 plagues of Egypt.

Laissez-Faire - Having the attitude of not interfering and letting things happen on their own.

Pluterperfect - Better than perfect

Imperturbability - Incapable of being agitated; Cool as a cucumber. 

Nagana - A West African disease spread by tsetse flies.  It affects vertebrate animals causing fever, weakness, lethargy, weight loss and anemia. Can be fatal if not treated.

Conflagration - A big fire that destroys a lot of property.

Augury - An omen, an indication of something that will happen in the future  

Harlot - A prostitute

Gabble -  talking fast and not making sense.

Maladroit -  ineffective, awkward, clumsy

Belie - To hide or disguised the true impression of something or someone.  To betray.

Rancour -  A deep and longstanding resentfulness. 

Mass - To assemble into one bigger whole.

Zeal - A great enthusiasm for a cause. Passion.

Vain - 1. Having an elevated opinion on one's self.  2. To be useless,  To have no meaning and produce no results.

Feign -  1. To pretend to be affected by something.  2. To make up a story.

Plunder - To forcefully steal goods from a place or person. See Rapine ^


Other Things

Cassandra -  Apollo's insane Trojan priestess.  She was given the ability of prophecy, but no friends to believe her.

Foot and Mouth Disease  (Aphthovirus) - FMD is a severe and very contagious virual ailment and a complete nightmare for livestockers.  It travels among livestock by way of living tissue, saliva, urine and breath of animals with divided hooves, like cows and sheep.  However, it has no effect on horses.

Koch's Postulates - A four step process for establishing if and/or how a microbe is related to a disease.

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch - 12.11.1843 - 5.27.1910  This man was a German physician, microbiologist one of the founders bacteriology.  He also wrote down the process of figuring out the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, calling it Koch's Postulates

Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler - 6.24.1852 - 4.9.1915 This is German doctor, a bacteriologist and discoverer if organisms that cause diphtheria foot and mouth disease.  helped Robert Koch in the development of his 4 postualats but not in the nomenclature.  

Auguries of Innocence - by William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage
A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell thr' all its regions
A dog starvd at his Masters Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State
A Horse misusd upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fibre from the Brain does tear
A Skylark wounded in the wing
A Cherubim does cease to sing
The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight
Does the Rising Sun affright
Every Wolfs & Lions howl
Raises from Hell a Human Soul
The wild deer, wandring here & there
Keeps the Human Soul from Care
The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife
And yet forgives the Butchers knife
The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that wont Believe
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbelievers fright
He who shall hurt the little Wren
Shall never be belovd by Men
He who the Ox to wrath has movd
Shall never be by Woman lovd
The wanton Boy that kills the Fly
Shall feel the Spiders enmity
He who torments the Chafers Sprite
Weaves a Bower in endless Night
The Catterpiller on the Leaf
Repeats to thee thy Mothers grief
Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly
For the Last Judgment draweth nigh
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar
The Beggars Dog & Widows Cat
Feed them & thou wilt grow fat
The Gnat that sings his Summers Song
Poison gets from Slanders tongue
The poison of the Snake & Newt
Is the sweat of Envys Foot
The poison of the Honey Bee
Is the Artists Jealousy
The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags
Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags
A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent
It is right it should be so
Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Thro the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine
The Babe is more than swadling Bands
Throughout all these Human Lands
Tools were made & Born were hands
Every Farmer Understands
Every Tear from Every Eye
Becomes a Babe in Eternity
This is caught by Females bright
And returnd to its own delight
The Bleat the Bark Bellow & Roar
Are Waves that Beat on Heavens Shore
The Babe that weeps the Rod beneath
Writes Revenge in realms of Death
The Beggars Rags fluttering in Air
Does to Rags the Heavens tear
The Soldier armd with Sword & Gun
Palsied strikes the Summers Sun
The poor Mans Farthing is worth more
Than all the Gold on Africs Shore
One Mite wrung from the Labrers hands
Shall buy & sell the Misers Lands
Or if protected from on high
Does that whole Nation sell & buy
He who mocks the Infants Faith
Shall be mockd in Age & Death
He who shall teach the Child to Doubt
The rotting Grave shall neer get out
He who respects the Infants faith
Triumphs over Hell & Death
The Childs Toys & the Old Mans Reasons
Are the Fruits of the Two seasons
The Questioner who sits so sly
Shall never know how to Reply
He who replies to words of Doubt
Doth put the Light of Knowledge out
The Strongest Poison ever known
Came from Caesars Laurel Crown
Nought can Deform the Human Race
Like to the Armours iron brace
When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow
To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow
A Riddle or the Crickets Cry
Is to Doubt a fit Reply
The Emmets Inch & Eagles Mile
Make Lame Philosophy to smile
He who Doubts from what he sees
Will neer Believe do what you Please
If the Sun & Moon should Doubt
Theyd immediately Go out
To be in a Passion you Good may Do
But no Good if a Passion is in you
The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licencd build that Nations Fate
The Harlots cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse
Dance before dead Englands Hearse
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to sweet delight
Some are Born to Endless Night
We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro the Eye
Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night
When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light
God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day

Places

Galway - Rated six in the list Irish towns with the most people in it. Located in the western part of Ireland, >> Connacht province, >> Galway county.


Mürzsteg Hunting Lodge (Jagdschloss Mürzsteg) -  The MHL is a Swiss style hunting lodge. That is now the the summer home of the Austrian President. Built by Franz Joseph I and his own money.

Mürzteg - Located near the northern border Styria, one of the nine Austrian States. Formally a municipality in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district.  It is currently a part of the municipality Neuberg an der Mürz

Styria -  Austria's second largest state. It's capital is Graz. Home of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Lower Austria - The largest Austrian state. It's capital used to be Vienna, but now it Sankt Pölten.

Bourse de Commerce - Located pretty much in the center of Paris, France.  It was originally built for the purpose of buying and selling grain and such.  Now the Paris Chamber of Commerce runs it. 

Timeline

-3000 (ish) - Egyption Renderpest cattle plague
1763 - Bourse de commerce begins construction 
1767 - Bourse de commerce completes construction
1803 - Auguries of Innocence was probably written
1811 - An iron dome was put on top of the Bourse de commerce
1843 (12/11) - Robert Koch was born
1852 (6/24) - Freidrich Loeffler was born
1860 - The Mürzsteg Hunting lodge was built
1863 - Auguries of Innocence was published.
1865 - British Isles Renderpest plague began
1868 (ish) - British Isles Renderpest plague ended
1874 -  Friedrich Loeffler  graduated  from University of Berlin
1879 - Friedrich Loeffler and Robert Koch began working together
1884 - Friedrich Loeffler and Robert Koch stopped working together
1884 (ish) - Friedrich Loeffler discovered the cause of foot and mouth disease (Aphthovirus)
1887 - African Rinderpest  plague began
1890 -  Koch's Postulates was published
1903 - African Rinderpest plague ended
1910 (5/27) -  Robert Koch died
1915 (4/9) - Friedrich Loeffler died
1918 - Vienna became an Austrian state
1947 - The Mürzsteg Hunting Lodge became the Austrian's presidents summer home
1986 - Sankt Pölten became the capital of Lower Austria
2015 (1/1) Mürzsteg joined Neuberg an der Mürz