Lefebvre De
a French jurist and historian; born in Paris, Jan. 18, 1811. He was appointed Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence in the Collège de France in 1849, deputy in 1871; life senator in 1875. His greatest work outside of the field of jurisprudence is a "Political History of the United States, 1620-1789" (3 vols. 1855-1866). He wrote also "The United States and and France" (1862) and the humorous satiric novel "Paris in America" (1863). His novel of "Prince Caniche" (1868) reached a 20th edition. But by far his best-known works of fiction are the three series of " Blue Stories"-tales of fairies, elves, enchanters, etc. He also wrote "Contemporary Studies of Germany and the Slavic States" (1856); "Religious Liberty" (1858 ). He died in Paris, May 25, 1883.
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Left-Handed Screws
A screw plate for left-handed screws can easily be made by screwing a good piece of steel of the desired size into a right-handed screw plate, removing, filing down on two sides, to leave only a knife edge, and hardening. Drill hole in steel plate and cut with the screw described by turning with reverse or left-handed motion. Left-handed screws can be made very successfully with this plate.
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Leg
a limb used to support and move the body. The word is Scandinavian. The English word used by Burns and other writers is shank. The German word is bein, equivalent to our bone. Strictly speaking, the leg is the part between the thigh and the foot. A limb used otherwise is known as a wing, fin, flipper, arm, etc. Man, the monkey, and the bird have two legs. Most vertebrates are quadrupeds having a pair of front legs and a pair of hind legs. Over three-fourths of all animals, including insects, have six legs. The spiders have eight; the higher crustaceans have ten; and there are animals, as the centipede and millipede, having over a hundred pairs of legs.
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Leg Cake
The name given in the Highlands of Scotland to a cake given to a herd when he came with the news that a mare had foaled, or to a dairy-maid when she brought word that a cow had calved.
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Legacy
anything which is handed CON, education for or passed down from an ancestor or prew. It takes on two decessor. in the office of an
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Lege
an educational ladelphia, Pa., founded auspices of the Roman reported at the close of and instructors, 20; president, Brother E. BARTHOLOMÉ DE panish prelate; born in 1474. In his 19th year his father, who sailed o the West Indies . On ain he embraced the ecssion, in order that he ssionary in the Western did man more zealct a great and good he crossed the foot of the Spanish wretched Indians. hlapa in 1544; 1551, returned died in Madrid, The most valuable of his General History of the (läs-käz), EMMANUEL COMTE DE, a French born near Revel, Lanin 1766. He was a lieuvy before the Revolution, rom France to England. became consul, Las Casés self as a bookseller in "Historical Atlas" no made him a baron, and tracted the attention of 31, 1864. LATAKIA (lä-tä-kē'yä) employed him in the administration. his enemies. He died in Geneva, Aug. After Waterloo he obtained leave to share the exile of Napoleon in St. Helena, where the ex -emperor dictated to him a part of his "Memoirs." In 1816 Las Casés was sent back to Europe, and after Napoleon's death published "Memorial of St. Helena" (8 vols. 1821-1823). Las Casés died in Passy, France, May 15, 1842.
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Legislature
a word which, when when applied to the Federal government, refers to the Congress, which is composed on is composed of a Senate and a House of Representaof Representatives. When the States and Territories Territories are referred to it is used to designate the te the legislative branch of the government, ment though in the majority of the States the th es the official title is "general assembly," while assembly," while Northern Reral. It s, corn, ang razed 14 years a aminous exorens of L milen 11,536 feet mar ine and 00. Canal, at Centre industries ps, ston cains or Colleg 1878 an es Moines St. Louis. He served as solicitor-general from 1910 to 1912. tor-general in others the terms "general court" and employed. In of the United States important commis- 1910 to 1912. "legislative assembly" are Legislature is com- He served on several delegate to tant commis all the States the though Pennsylvasions and was United States at Niagara Falls. adelegate to the A. B. C. mediation posed of two houses, Vermont, up to 1836, Fingaza Falls. nia, up to 1790, and The upper house is
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Legnago
one of the of Northern Italy House. She four fortified towns , Quadrilateral. It has a remained here until 1890. She then reshe She then returned to Germany, where in 1901 Festivals in Salzin 1001 she known as the corn, and silk considerable trade in rice, . were razed by Napoorganized the Mozart was considered one of the Frais in Salzburg. She of her day. The fortifications 14 years later. one of the greatest Wagnerian singers of her day. leon in 1801, but rebuilt
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Legume
a pod. Leguminous plants are literally all those whose seeds are borne in a pod; but the term is applied only to the pea family, including peas, beans, pulse, lentils, lupines, clovers, alfalfa or lucern, the peanut, locust, and laburnum. The whole family is valuable. The leaves and stems are good for fodder; the seeds are rich in food material; the roots run deep and pulverize the soil; the leaves take up nitrogen from the air--the same element that makes powder black--and send it down to nodules (colonies of bacteria) in the roots--to be converted into rich plant food. A farm is never impoverished by raising leguminous crops. See Clover ; Pea
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Leh
the walled capital of Ladakh, , India; 3 miles from ing himself there . composed two disquimathematics. State of Kashmir 11,538 feet above In the meantime he for a degree at ed two disquithe bank of the Indus, markets of sitions, to qualify himself refused because or a degree at the sea; is one of the chief and Chinese Tur- Leipsic; the degree was he took the docfused because the trade between Tibet and the Punjab of his youth, but in 1666 at Altdorf. He took the dockestan on the one hand Pop. about 4,000. tor's degree in law the Altdorf. He on the other. ce among the reached the highest eminence among languages, history, scholars of his time in philosophy, jurisprudence, polit-
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