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Show Steamboat Memories. London Opinion, commenting on the recent celebration of the -centenary of the steamboat, remarks thai it Is interesting to note that the British Brit-ish admiralty of that period rejected the invention with the declaration that "a paddle'wheel steamboat could " be of no use in navigation," and that a Dr. Lardner, a pundit of that day, , who proved "that no steam vessel could ever cross the Atlantic, lived long enough to bolt to America in o steamer along with another man's wife!" |