Word: steamboats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speak on "General Gordon and the Soudan," was one of "Chineses" Gordon's right hand men in Egypt and Africa, and saw a great deal of hard service and fighting. He was at one time governor of the Province of the Equator under the Khedive, and took the first steamboat to the Victoria Nyanza under great difficulties. The address cannot fail to prove interesting. Chief Engineer Melville of the Navy, who spoke here two years ago on the Arctic expedition of the "Jeanette," also will be one of the lecturers this winter...
...clock the first and second elevens left the training table and went to New York by the three o'clock express on the New York and New England railroad. They will remain in New York over night and will go up the Hudson to West Point on a steamboat early this morning. After the game a special sleeping car will take them back to Boston. The game is expected to be a close one. Harvard's greatest hope is in playing a quick, snappy game such as has been practiced during the last week. West Point has excelled Harvard...
...scene in the college yard, and finally the burial at Mount Auburn. There are a number of other good articles though we have mentioned the best of them. Some of the others are "The Old Meeting-House in Hingham Mass." by Price Collier, "The Real Inventor of the Steamboat," and an article by C. J. Danforth on "Trout Fishing in New England...
...WHITMORE, JR.,45 Hastings.THE Midsummer Number of "Tales from Town Topics," including a $1,000 prize novel, "Six Months in Hades," is on the news stands, and is a very lively volume, particularly suited to the season, and a very engaging companion for a railroad or steamboat journey. - TOWN TOPICS, 21 West Twenty-third street, New York...