Lopez
FRANCISCO SOLANO, President of Paraguay; born in Asuncion in 1827; son of Don Carlos Antonio Lopez, president of Paraguay from 1844-1862.
He filled some of the principal offices of state while his father was president, and was sent to Europe in 1853, accredited to the chief courts there. In 1855 he returned to Paraguay, became minister of war, and on the death of his father, in 1862, president for 10 years. He had long been aiming at the foundation of a great inland empire, and in 1864 commenced hostilities against Brazil. The Argentine Republic and Uruguay allied themselves with Brazil, and after five years' conflict López was reduced to extremities, and was finally surprised on the banks of the Aquidaban by a troop of Brazilian cavalry and slain, March 1870. The latter part of his career had been stained by many cruelties and wanton murders.
LOQUAT (Eriobotrya Japonica), a Chinese and Japanese fruit, of the natural order Rosacex. It has been introduced into Australia, California, and Florida, and is now abundant there. The Loquat tree or shrub attains a height of 20 or 30 feet, but in cultivation is seldom allowed to exceed 12 feet. It is a beautiful evergreen, with large oblong wrinkled leaves, and white flowers in terminal woolly panicles, having a fragrance like that of hawthorn-blossom; the fruit is downy, oval, or pear-shaped, yellow, and about the size of a large gooseberry.
The seeds have an agreeable flavor. a