Ladysmith
a town in Natal, 180 miles from Durban. It was named after the wife of Sir Henry Smith, once governor of Cape Colony. During the Zulu War it was a British military station.
In 1899-1900 it was a center of military operations, a siege by the Boers being gallantly withstood by a British garrison under General White.
BOER WAR.
See LADY'S SLIPPER (Cypripedium), a genus of the plants of the natural order Orchideæ, of which one species, C. calceolus, is a native of Great Britain, beady was usually additional building. ne ne of the regular quarland and Ireland, on made payable.
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LAEKEN (lä'ken), a N. suburb of Brussels. In it is the crypt of the Belgian royal family in the new Gothic Church of the Virgin, and a royal palace (built in 1782), which, previous to its destruction by fire, Jan. 1, 1890, contained valuable works of art and historical documents. The palace has been rebuilt in the same style as the one destroyed. Pop. about 25,000.
LÆLAPS, a large fossil dinosaurian reptile found in the Cretaceous formation of the United States. LAERTES (lā-ur'tēz), according to Homer, a King of Ithaca, and the supposed father of Ulysses, whose real progenitor was Sisyphus. Laertes, however, resigned his crown to Ulysses, and retired to a farm. After the absence of his son for 10 years at the siege of Troy, and 10 more expended in his return journey, Ulysses found his old and infirm father still employed in his fields and garden; and, having cautiously made himself known to the old king, they repaired together to the palace of the faithful Penelope, where they discovered themselves to the delighted queen.
Laertes in his youth had been one of the Argonauts.
LÆSTRYGONES (les-trig'ō-nēz), a fabled nation mentioned in Homer.
They were giants who fed on human flesh and gave themselves up to evil doing.
LÆVULOSE (lev'ū-lōs), in chemistry, C6H12O6, lævo-glucose, or sucro-lævulose, a variety of sugar, isomeric with dextrose, occurring together with dextrose in honey and in the juices of sweet fruits.
It is also produced, together with an equal weight of dextrose, by the action of dilute acids, diastase, or yeast, on cane-sugar; or it may be obtained pure by heating inuline with dilute acids.