Little Red Riding Hood
a well known fairy tale published in French in a collection of stories by Charles Perrault, which appeared in 1697. The story has long been popular in German and in English, as well as in French. It is told in different forms. In the German tale, the wolf devours the grandmother and little Rothkopfchen herself, but, with a beautiful disregard for the processes of mastication and digestion, a hunter appears on the scene, rips open the wolf and rescues the prisoners. In the English version, the hunter comes in time to save Red Riding Hood from the jaws of the wolf. The grandmother is, presumably, too old to mind being eaten, and all ends happily.
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Little Women
a story for girls by Louisa M. Alcott, published in 1868. It is based on the girlhood experiences of the author and her three sisters. Little Women has been one of the most popular stories ever written, and is still a great favorite. See Alcott ; Louisa M
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Little World
The name given to a secret society which conspired in England , in the eighteenth century, to reestablish the Stuart dynasty. Many stories are told of this society-as, for instance, that the devil presided over their assemblies in person. The members were Freemasons.
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Liturgy
liturjy, an appointed form of public worship. Such forms are given in the missal, breviary, etc., of the Roman Catholic and the Greek Church , and in the English Book of Common Prayer. Services are arranged for such occasions as the holy communion, daily prayer, baptism, confirmation, marriage, penance, visitation, and unction of the sick or dying, the ordination of the clergy, etc. Modern liturgies have been drawn largely from Jewish sources. The book of Psalms and the New Testament have supplied a large amount of liturgical material. See Litany
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Lius
or CÆCILIUS, an eminent father th inent ment is a good evidence of the specific of the Church, lived at the beginning of gravity of milk, and the specific gravity the 4th century. He was by some esteemed an African and by others a nais a probable, but not positive, evidence tive of Fremo, in Ancona. He studied of quality. Taken in connection with rhetoric under Arnobius, and by his the per cent. glass, which measures the and "Symposium" he obtained such renown per cent. of cream that rises, it is nearly a positive indicator of pure and watered that Diocletian appointed him to teach milk. rhetoric in Nicomedia. Subsequently he was appointed tutor to Crispus, the son
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Livadia
a town of Greece, on the little stream Hercyno. Here are the famous cave and oracle of Trophonius, and the fountains of Lethe and Mnemosyne.
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Livermore, Mary
Mary (1821-1905), an American reformer and lecturer. Her maiden name was Mary Ashton Rice. She was a native of Boston. She was married in 1845 to the Rev. D. P. Livermore, a Universalist minister--an anti-slavery lecturer. In 1862 Mrs. Livermore was made northwestern agent of the United States Sanitary Commission with headquarters at Chicago. She was noted as a lecturer in the interest of woman's suffrage and temperance. She was for many years president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union . She wrote several books, including Pen Pictures, Thirty Years Too Late, My Story of the War, and The Story of My Life. Her list of lectures included Women of the War, The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform, What Shall We Do With Our Daughters? etc. See Howe ; Stanton ; Willard ; Anthony
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Liverwort
a flowerless plant allied to the mosses. The liverworts are divided into several classes. Those of one group have what are known as thalloid, prostrate fronds, looking as much like bits of green, corky leather as anything else, except that they are tender and often bear cups. They may be attached to the soil by rootlets on the under surface, or they may float, or they may be submerged. Those of the marchantia group, known as the common liverworts, grow in moist shade. The stem is a flat, prostrate, ribbon-like body, having no leaves but rooting in the mud. The upper surface bears cups and umbrella-shaped growths, both of which are concerned, though quite independently, in the propagation of the plant. The "cups" produce "buds." The umbrellas produce spores. Liverworts of still another sort look very much like leafy mosses. They may be distinguished, however, by the fact that the leaves are arranged in two ranks. All liverworts are propagated by powdery spores produced in little capsules. The members of the family are partial to stagnant waters, to shady banks, and damp places around springs. The best month for their study is June. They are of little practical interest to anyone but the botanist. See Mosses
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Livingstone
DAVID, tyre, March 19, Scotch a traveler; born in Blantyre, March 19, to Africa in the 1813. He first went out to Africa in the issionary Society, service of the London Missionary Society, e Victoria Falls 1840. He discovered the Victoria Falls 5. In 1858-1864 of the Zambezi in 1855. In 1858-1864 ONE DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE explorer and he prosecuted his labors as explorer and was without missionary in Africa, and was without Curope until any communication with Europe until ed in Africa found by Stanley. He worked in Africa His works till his death May 1, 1873. His works 1 Researches are: "Missionary Travels and Researches 367); "Narin South Africa" (2 vols., 1857); "Narthe Zambezi rative of an Expedition to the Zambezi "Lest Jourand its Tributaries" (1865); "Last Jourin Central nals of David Livingstone in Central h" (1874). Africa, from 1865 to his Death" (1874). ce former
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Lixiviation
The process of extracting alkaline salts from ashes by pouring water on them. Loadstone, or natural magnet, is a species of iron ore found in many parts of the earth. Its property of attracting small pieces of iron was known to the Greeks at an early date, and the Chinese have been acquainted with its wonderful directive power from very remote ages. When this wonderful ore has been carefully examined, it is found that some points possess greater magnetic force than others. The attractive points are the poles of the magnet, which, if rubbed in a particular manner on a hardened steel bar, its characteristic properties will be communicated to the bar, which will then attract fillings like itself; particularly is this the case with the two ends of the bar. The bar is then said to be magnetized. For general purposes these bars are bent in the form of a horseshoe, which admits of the two poles being brought into contact with the object to be lifted. See MAGNET.
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