Late 1880s facts

While investigating facts about Late 1880s, I found out little known, but curios details like:

The face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who's dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.

Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about Late 1880s I managed to collect.

1. Warren G Harding built the newspaper The Star during the late 1880s.

2. The face used on CPR dummies is a model of an unidentified young woman reputedly drowned in the River Seine around the late 1880s

3. The Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s.

4. In the late 1880s, the body of a drowned 16-year-old girl, who apparently committed suicide, was made into a plaster death mask because of her beauty and enigmatic smile and used to model a first-aid mannequin in 1958.

5. In the United States, as late as the 1880s most States set the minimum age of consent at 10–12

6. Late-1880s British lived longer and had less disease than they do today

7. The works Vincent van Gogh painted during periods of prolonged psychotic agitation (late 1880s) closely match the turbulence theory developed by Kolmogorov in the 1960s (whose work forms the foundation of modern turbulence theory).

8. Charlotte submitted a bid in the late 1880s for what would become North Carolina State University, but lost to the city of Raleigh after a local farmer offered to donate land for the campus

9. Geissler tubes (early neon tubes) were mass-produced in the 1880s as novelty items (Late 19th century glow sticks?).