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Oneida Community

a religious communistic society, otherwise known as PERFECTIONIST (q. v.).

ONEIDAS, North American Indian tribe inhabiting Central New York. ONEIDAS, once a North American In- A remnant in Wisconsin are well advanced in civilization.

Onion

in botany, horticulture, etc., allium cepa, and the genus Allium.

The onion has been cultivated from a very early age (Num. xi: 51). A variety of it is called the potato, or underground onion. It multiplies in bulbs below the ground.

Onondaga

LAKE, a small lake in Central New York, near Syracuse; out let, Seneca river.

Oosterhout

a city of Holland, in tains a town hall, a large Roman Catholic church, and a convent. It has manufactories of beet sugar, pottery, shoes, and iron. It has considerable trade in agricultural products and linen. Pop. about 15,000.

Opera Bouffe

a farcical form of opera buffa in which the characters, subject matter, and music is intended to burlesque the more serious style of opera. Offenbach was the creator as well as the chief master in this art. The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, both in the character of the music and the libretti, stand by themselves.

Opera Glass

a binocular telescope of the kind invented by Galileo. It has a plano-concave or double concave eye glass, so that the image is not inverted and little light is lost, thus securing great distinctness.

Ophidia

in zoölogy, snakes; an order of the class Reptilia, which is placed by Professor Huxley in his division Sauropsida. The body is always cylinina and iron. Called also ophiolite.

Ophiuchus

in astronomy, Serpentarius, the Serpent-bearer, a constellation of the Northern Hemisphere. One of the ancient asterisms, having Hercules on the N., Scorpio on the S., and Serpens on the W. It has about 80 stars visible to the naked eye, the chief being Ras Alague.

Ophite

green porphyry or serpentine, a metamorphic rock of a duskygreen color of different shades, sprinkled with spots of a lighter green. It is a Vol. VII--Cyc

Opisthobranchiata

in zoölogy, an order of Gasteropoda. Shell rudimentary or wanting; branchiæ arborescent or fasciculated, more or less completely exposed on the back and sides toward the rear of the body. It contains two sections, Tectibranchiata and Nudibranchiata.

Opossum Shrimp

the popular name of several species of Mysis, a genus of small crustaceans. They receive their name from the females carrying their eggs and young in a pouch between the thoracic legs.

Opper

FREDERICK BURR, American artist, born in Madison, O., 1857; left school at fourteen to work in village newspaper office. Came to New York, worked there in a store, then, having sold phonse and Gaston," and other "funny sheet" sketches.