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Reflecting Telescope – Reichstag

Reflecting Telescope

a telescope in which the rays are received on an object-mirror and conveyed to a focus, at which the image is viewed by an eyepiece.

Reformatory Schools

schools instituted for the training of juvenile offenders who have been convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment.

The first reformatory managed under legislative control was the one established in New York in 1824, known as the New York House of Refuge. Its success was so marked that similar institutions were established throughout the country. See JUVENILE COURTS.

Refuge

that which shelters or protects from danger, distress, or calamity; a sanctuary; a place to flee to in time of danger. Specifically, an institution for affording temporary shelter to the destitute or the homeless; a house of refuge.

Regillus

LAKE, a body of water which lay in Latium, to the S. E. of Rome, probably near the modern Frascati; it is celebrated in the semi-legendary history of Rome as the scene (496 B. C.) of a great battle between the Romans and the Latins, fighting on behalf of the banished Tarquins, in which the latter were entirely defeated.

Regular Clergy

the term applied in the Roman Catholic Church to priests who have taken the vows, and who are bound to follow the rules of some monastic order, as opposed to the secular clergy, that is parish priests, etc., priests, etc. , not connected with any of the orders.

Regulus

a term in metallurgy, now used in a generic sense for metals in different stages of purity, but which still retain, to a greater or less extent, the impurities they contained in the state of ore.

Regulus

the star Alpha Leonis, the brightest in the constellation of the Lion.

Regulus

or RULE, ST., according to legend, a monk of Constantinople or Bishop of Patras, who in A. D. 347, came to Muckross or Kilrimont (afterward St.

Andrews), bringing relics of St.

Andrew to Scotland from the East.

Reichenberg

the chief seat of the cloth manufacture in north Bohemia; on the Neisse river; 52 miles N. E. of Prague. Some 10,000 workmen are employed; cotton and woolen fabrics, machinery, and leather are manufactured. The cloth industry was establised here in the 16th century. Pop. about 40,000.

Reichsrath

the representative council of the former Empire of Austria.

See AUSTRIA.

Reichstadt

NAPOLEON FRAN- COIS CHARLES JOSEPH, DUKE DE.

See NAPOLEON II. representative legislative body of the

Reichstag

under the empire, the representative German nation as a whole, as the Bundesrath was of the separate German states. The president of the Reichstag was elected by the deputies. See GER- MANY.