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LEFT LORD-LIEUTENANT 10 L'ORIENT the King's Bench Division of the Su- preme Court of Judication in England. While the King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the three superior courts, hold about equal power, yet the King's (or Queen's) has always enjoyed a cer- tain pre-eminence, the Chief-Justice of that court having precedence over the Chief-Justice of Common Pleas and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The Lord Chief-Justice is a lord of Parlia- ment, and in court and abroad is entitled to be addressed as "Lord." LORD-LIETJTENANT, a British of- ficial of high rank, representing the sovereign, as: (1) The Viceroy, or Lord- lieutenant of Ireland, who is a member of the ministry, retiring from office with them. He has the control of the govern- ment of the country, subject to the ap- proval of the ministry in office, and near- ly all the patronage is also vested in him. He can confer knighthood. In his gov- ernment he is assisted by a privy council nominated by the sovereign. (2) The lord-lieutenant of a county, the principal official of a county, at whose recom- mendation all deputy-lieutenants and jus- tices of the peace are appointed, and first commissions in the yeomanry, militia, and volunteers are given. LORD MAYOR, the title given to the chief magistrates of London and York, England, and of Dublin, Ireland, during the year for which they hold office. LORD'S PRAYER, the prayer which Jesus taught His disciples (Matt, vi: 9-13; Luke xi: 2-4). LORD'S SUPPER, a term first used by St. Paul in I Cor. xi: 20, of a cere- monial ordinance observed in the Cor- inthian and doubtless in other churches. The night on which Jesus was betrayed. He took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to His disciples to eat, with wine similarly blessed for them to drink, the former in the Protestant view symboliz- ing His broken Body, the latter His shed Blood. (Matt, xxvi: 26-29; Mark xiv: 22-25; Luke xxii: 14-20). St. Luke records that Jesus said, "Do this in re- membrance of me" (xxii: 19). St. Paul evidently considered that these words, addressed originally to the apostles, were designed for the Church of all ages. The term Lord's supper is used chiefly by those who hold the ordinance to be a commemorative one. See COMMUNION : Eucharist: Mass. LOREE, LEONOR FRESNEL, railway president, born in Fulton City, 111., 1858. Graduating from Rutgers in 1877, he entered the service of the Pa. R. R. as assistant in the engineer corps. Two years later he became transitman in the Engineers Corps, U. S. A. After two years' service he I'esumed railroad work. In 1896 he became general manager of the Pa. R. R. and fourth vice-president in 1901. He was successively president of the B. & O. R. R. (1901-1904) ; R. I. Co. of N. J. (1904); D. & H. R. R. Co. (1907). From 1899 to 1901 he was pres- ident of the American Railway Associ- ation. Was a delegate to the Interna- tional Railway Congress in Paris in 1900. LORELEI (I6're-li), or L U R L E I (I5r'), a rock which rises perpendicu- larly from the Rhine, to the height of 427 feet, near St. Goar. It used to be dangerous to boatmen, and has a cele- brated echo. But the name is best known from Heine's song. LORENZ, ADOLF, an orthopaedic sur- geon of Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became assistant to Professor Albert, who occupied the chair of surgery at the University of Vienna. Instead of taking up general surgery he specialized in orthopjedic surgery. He became famous as the "bloodless surgeon" because of his reduction of the dislocation of the hip joint by manipulation rather than cutting. In 1902 he visited the United States and England, holding clinics in the more important hospitals. LORETO (lo-ra'to), an interior de- partment of Peru, in the N. E. part of the Republic, watered for thousands of miles by the Maraiion and its tributaries ; area (est.) 288,500 square miles; pop. (est.) 100,000 (chiefly Indians). Vast portions of the department are still un- explored, being covered with thick for- ests. The climate is hot and unhealthy. Chief products: rubber, salt, quinine, tobacco, tropical fruits. Capital, Iquitos. LORETTO (lo-ret't5), or LORETO, a city of Italy, in the province of Ancona, about 15 miles S. E. of Ancona. It is a famous resort of pilgrims, who come to visit the Casa Santa or Holy House of Loretto, which is said to have been the house of the Holy Family at Nazareth, and to have been miraculously conveyed by the angels first to Fiume in Dalmatia, and afterward to Loretto. The Holy House is in the center of a beautiful church built by Majano and Bramante (1464-1587). The number of pilgrims amounts to 50,000 yearly. The town is the seat of a bishop since 1586. Pop. about 7,000. L'ORIENT (16-ryonflf'), a seaport in the French department of Morbihan; on a good bay; 116 miles N. W. of Nantes; is a well-built town, with a deep and