Word: river
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Professor Lyon will devote part of his lecture to a description of the Church of the Holy Sepulcre of Jerusalem, which he did not speak on in his last lecture. He will then speak about Bethlehem, the Church of the Nativity, the River Jordan, and the Sea of Galilee, and will show views of places of interest connected with these localities...
...night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen him on the wharf on Sunday, March...
...Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, to which was referred the question of a dam across the Charles River, voted at its last meeting to report to the legislature a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to do the work. This commission is to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Council. It will be a commission of experts, and the recess committee, which reported favorably to the legislature, will be represented...
...University shooting team left last night by the Fall River boat for Philadelphia where they will shoot in a dual meet with the University of Pennsylvania today. Each man will shoot at 50 birds, thrown from a magau trap at unknown angles, with a rise of 16 yards. The teams will be made up as follows...
Professor Lyon will speak of the scenes of modern life along the Nile from the first cataract to Cairo, a region which contains many of the most important ruins of ancient Egyptian times, and will show views of the temples and tombs along the river...