Larch
Abies larix, sometimes called Larix communis, the larches being elevated into a genus. It is called more fully the common white larch. It is a deciduous tree, growing rapidly, and furnishes a durable timber , which, however, tends to twist and warp. The bark is used in tanning, being second in value , in this respect only, to oak . The common larch yields Venetian turpentine , the branches saccharine substance, a called Manna of Briancon, and when larch forests take fire, a gum called Gummi orenbergense exudes from the branches. There is a variety of the common larch with white, and another with red flowers. Yet another , the Russian larch, has cinereous bark.
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Larcom
LUCY, an American poet; born in Beverly Farms, Mass., in 1826 . In her youth she was a factory girl in Lowell, Mass.; was a student for a time at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill.; afterward taught school; but the greater part of her life was devoted to literary work. In 1866-1874 she edited "Our Young Folks." She wrote " Ships in the Mist, etc.," stories (1859), and four or five volumes of poetry; also compiled and edited "Roadside Poems, etc. " (1876); "Hillside and Seaside in Poetry" (1877) ; etc. She died in Boston , Mass., April 17 , 1893.
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Larcom, Lucy
Lucy (1826-1893), an American writer. She was born at Beverly, Massachusetts, and died at Boston, April 17, 1893. When a girl she worked in a cotton mill at Lowell, Massachusetts. Her first writing was in the form of contributions to the Lowell Offering, a magazine conducted by the operatives in the mills. She attracted Whittier's attention. She studied, taught, and wrote. She became the editor of Our Young Folks, a Boston magazine since absorbed by St. Nicholas. She wrote many short stories and published several slender volumes of verse, bearing Childhood Songs, Wild Roses of Cape Ann, and other titles. She wrote her own life in A New England Girlhood. Her best known poem is perhaps Hannah at the Window Binding Shoes, long a favorite with the Hutchinson family of singers. Nothing has been written that more perfectly pictures the pathos of life in a fishing village: Fair young Hannah, Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gaily woos; Hale and clever, For a willing heart and hand he sues. May-day skies are all aglow, And the waves are laughing so! For her wedding Hannah leaves her window and her shoes. Twenty winters Bleak and drear, the ragged shore she views, Twenty seasons! Never one has brought her any news, Still her dim eyes silently Chase the white sails o'er the sea;-- Hopeless, faithful, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
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Laredo
a city and county-seat of Webb co., Tex.; on the International and Great Northern, the Mexican National, and several other railroads; 153 miles W. of San Antonio. It is the trade center for the Rio Grande border. Laredo is in the great Rio Grande coal belt ; is a health resort for victims of lung troubles; the seat of Laredo Seminary; contains Mercy and Mexican National Railroad Hospitals; and has manufactures of lumber and cigars, deposits of coal, iron, lead, zinc and copper, a large interna tional and local trade, National banks , daily and weekly periodicals , and an a sessed property valuation of $2,000,000 . Pop. (1910) 14,855; (1920) 22,710.
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Largs
a watering-place of Ayrshire, Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde , 14 miles S. of Greenock. Here, Oct. 12, 1263, a war between Scotland and the Norse colonies of Man and the Isles, Alexander III. defeated Haco of Norway , who with 160 ships and 20,000 men had descended on the coast of Ayrshire. LARISSA (lä-re'sä) (called by the Turks Yenisher), famous in ancient times as the chief town of Thessaly, now the capital of the monarchy of Larissa in Northern Greece; on the Salambria (ancient Peneus), in the fertile plain of Thessaly; has manufactures of silk and cotton goods and tobacco; and is the seat of a Greek archbishop. Larissa was the center of the Turkish operations in the war of Greek liberation; it was ceded by Turkey to Greece in 1881. Pop. about 18,000, one-third Greeks and one-third Turks. Four
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Larkhana
the capital a district called of "the Eden of Sind," situated 150 miles N. of Haidarabad; has manufactures of silk and cotton cloth, and a great cotton market .
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Larksville
a borough of Penn- , in sylvania Luzerne co. Susquehanna River, and is the center of It is on the an important coal mining district. Pop. (1910) 9,288; (1920) 9,438.
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Larnaka
the port of Cyprus. Ev chief not the Chittim of the Old Testament, it Even if Citium be is certain that the King of Citium paid tribute to the Assyrian Sargon in 707 B. C., as appears from a cuneiform inscription on a bas-relief dug up at Larnaka in 1846, and now in the museum at Berlin. Carobs, or locust beans, cotton, esting and grain fair are called exported kataklusmos. A most, inter- held teenth " Great Universal Century " every year 50 days completed 1876, 15 after the Greek Eas- vols. with ter, is traditionally volumes 1878 supposed to be the and 1887). He anniversary of the birth published two of Aphrodite, smaller works of and is attended by same class, the Orthodox Christian " New Illustrated Cypriots from all parts of the island " and "Com- .
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Laryngitis
inflammation of the windpipe. It may be acute, chronic, mucous, or cædematous, and is produced by cold or damp or as an accompaniment of certain zymotic diseases such as scarlatina, smallpox, and measles. When membranous it is called croup, and may also be frequently found associated with diphtheria .
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Laryngoscope
an instrument, invented by Garcia, for obtaining a view of the larynx . It consists of a small plane mirror on a long, slender stem, which is introduced to the back of the throat, and a large concave mirror for reflecting light (solar or artificial).
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Laryngotomy
an operation by which an incision is made into the larynx to aid in the operation of breathing, when obstruction to it exists, to remove foreign bodies , or for any similar cause.
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