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Latin Cross

a cross the transverse beam of which is one-third the length of the vertical one. ius, the son

Latter-Day Saints

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF. See MOR- MONS.

Laudanum

or more correctly TINCTURE OF OPIUM, the most generally used of all the preparations of opium.

It is obtained by macerating the sliced or powdered drug in dilute spirits, and filtering. Laudanum is a powerful anodyne and soporific, but is more liable to cause headache than the solution of one of the salts of morphia.

Lauder

SIR HARRY, a an

Laurium

a mountain (1,171 feet) of Attica, Greece, connected by a railway with Athens . It was famous in ancient times for its silver mines, but these were already exhausted in Strabo's day.

Since 1874, Since 1874, however, the great heaps of been profitably worked.

Laval University

a French Catholic institution for higher education, founded in Quebec, Canada, in 1852. It includes faculties of theology, law, medicine, and arts. There are about 500 students students. Rector, Monsigneur A. E. Gooseliu. a

Lava Millstone

a hard and coarse basaltic millstone, obtained from quarries near Andernach on the Rhine.

Lava Ware

a kind of coarse ware LAW use of legal fictions, by the influence of equity, and by legislation. The civil law, amended and rationalized by successive prætors and emperors, has furnished most of the nations of modern Europe resembling lava, made from iron slag, with the greater part of their legal rules cast into urns, tiles, table-tops, etc.

Laverna

among the Romans and Latins, the patron goddess of thieves. A grove on the Via Salaria at Rome was sacred to her. The origin of the name is doubtful.

Lawrence

JOHN LAIRD MAIR,

Lazareff

PORT, a fine natural miles in extent, in Broughton Bay on the E. side of Korea. It is 390 miles from to the N. and 480 from Port Hamilton to the S., and is free from ice in winter. given in Italy, and other parts of South-

Leamington

a health resort of wa Warwickshire, England. It is wholly of modern growth, having become important only since the rediscovery of its mineral waters in 1784.