Leavenworth
a city and county- H. a city and countyseat of Leavenworth co., Kan., on the th co., Kan., on the the Atchison, Topeka Missouri river and the Atchison, Topeka Burlington Route, the and Santa Fé, the Burlington Route, the and and Pacißc and several other railroads; 26 miles N. W. of ds; 26 miles N. W. of Kansas City. It is the trade center for the trade conter for a farming and coal mining region; manumining region; manufactures flour, syrup, glucose, stoves, rup, glucose, stoves, machinery, bricks, castings, carriages, castings, carriages, wagons, boots and shoes, metallic wares, bridges, furniture, cigars, and shoes, metallic wares, rniture, cigars, and iron brooms. It contains Mount St. Mary's ns Mount St. Mary's Academy, Cushing and St. John's Hos- Asylum, and St. John's Hospitals, Kansas State Orphan Orphan Asylum, Whittier Library, Kansas State and Kansas State and United States penitentiaries; and has itentiaries; and has electric light and street railroad plants; crest railroad plants; excellent water supply; the pro-cathedral the pro-cathedral of the Immaculate Conception; many Conception; many churches; National and savings banks; savings banks; daik daily, we weekly, and monthly periodicals. thly periodicals. weekly, Adjoining the city on the N. is Fort inthe N. is Fort Leavenworth, where are located an located an infantry and cavalry school, and a Nation- . Pop. (1910) 19,363; (1920) nool, and a National cemetery (1910) 19,368; (1920) 16,912. of Indiana, the
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Lebanon
two limestone mountain ranges of northern Syria. The name signifies white. The ranges run parallel to the eastern shore of the Mediterraanean. They inclose a valley drained by the upper course of the River Jordan. The range east of this valley is called Anti-Lebanon by way of distinction. The highest peak of Lebanon is about 10,000 feet high, higher than any peak in eastern North America . The upper ridges are barren; the lower slopes and valleys afford tillage and pasturage. The fig, olive, and oak are seen. The famous cedars of Lebanon that once clothed the ranges in evergreen have been exterminated save a few venerable trees. Hyenas, wolves, jackals, foxes, and other wild beasts still lurk in rocky glens in the caverns in which a limestone range abounds. The northern part of the region is occupied by the Maronites, a sect of Christians; the southern by a turbulent sect, called Druses. There are also members of the Orthodox Greek Church , Catholics, and several thousand Mohammedans. See Palestine ; Jordan ; Druses ; Cedar ; Damascus
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Lebanon (City of Indiana the eit oone)
a city of Indiana, the eit oone co. It is on the county seat of Boone co. It is on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. nati, Chicago and St. Louis and the Central Indiana railroads. ntral Indiana railroads. clude saw mills, chair Its industries include saw mills, chair ased-milk factory, grain factories, a condensed-milk factory, grain elevators, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,474; Pop. (1910) 5,474; (1920) 6,257.
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Lebanon (City of Pennsylvania city)
a city of Pennsylvania, city of Pennsylvania, Lebanon co. It is on It is on the county-seat of Lebanon co. Reading, the Philadelphia and the Corning, the Cornwall, and the Cornwall and Lebanon railnd Lebanon railroads. In the vicinity are important deimportant deposits of brownstone, limestone, and brick clay. There are important iron estone, and am iron mines in the neighborhood. The chief ood. The chief industries are iron mining, quarrying, mining, quarrying, brickmaking, and the manufacture of the manufacture of its, boilers, etc. It has silk, bolts and nuts, boilers, etc. It has court house, and other libraries, a court house, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 19,240; (1910) 19,240; (1920) 24,643.
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Lebanon Valley College
an educational institution in Annville, Pa.; founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Brethren; reported at the close of
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Lebrun
CHARLES FRANÇOIS, a French administrator; born in St. Sauveur-Landelin, France, March 19, 1739. He came at an early age to Paris; and was nominated deputy to the states-gento eral in 1789. In 1795 he was elected the council of elders, and became president in 1796. He was appointed third consul in December, 1799; nominated in 1804; arch-treasurer of the empire and in 1805 governor-general of Liguria signed and Duke of Placentia. Having house the constitution that recalled the of Bourbon to the throne, he was created a peer of France by the king, and became president of the first bureau of the Chamber of Peers. After the return of Napoleon he accepted the peerage from grand mashim, and likewise the place of ter of the university, which rendered him incapable of sitting in the new Chamber of Peers, formed in August, 1815. In the early part of his life he translated the "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and Tasso's "Jerusalem." He died near Dourdan, France, June 16, 1824.
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Lebrun, Pierre
An orator, born at Brignolles in 1661, died in 1729. He has left two works, namely, Lettres qui découvrent l'illusion des philosophes sur la baquette, et qui détruisent leurs systèmes (1693), and Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses qui ont séduit les peuples et embarrassé les savants (1702).
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Lech
a right - hand July 6, 19 of the Danube, rising in the Alps in LECOU rarlberg, flowing N. past Augsburg kó-vrur), after a course of 177 miles joining Châlons, Danube a few miles E. of Donauwörth her début It is a mountain stream and not became fa able. Near Rain, not far from its tress, and the imperalist general Tilly was her admire feated and killed, April 5, 1632, by Saxe, Volt Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus. Her death. unjustly s LECKY, WILLIAM EDWARD administer HARTPOLE, an Irish historian; Bouillon. He near Dublin, Ireland, March 26, Scribe and where was educated at Trinity Bernhardt he graduated B. A. in 1859, M. A. in 1863. In 1861 he had published anonymously " The Leaders of Opinion in Ireland, " four brilliant sus. He on Swift, Flood, Grattan, and O'Connell Lower Ans Later works were " History of the Thereciam and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe " ( 2 vols. 1865); " philosophy of European Morals from Augustus t Tarnov, Charlemagne " ( 2 vols. 1869); and " ity in Rom tory of England in the Eighteenth Novitiate tury " ( 8 vols. 1878-1890). Later esuit Scci peared " Democracy and Liberty. " 894; and declared strongly against Home nd pastor He died in London, Oct. 22, 1903. rovincial n 1906 he
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