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LA. STATE UNIVERSITY  the exhibits of foreign governments, in addition to the large structures containing the manufactures of the United States. The buildings and grounds covered nearly 1,200 acres. Under the direction of the United States Government were important exhibits of the Philippine Islands. Most of the important tribes sent representatives, together with exhibits showing the state of industry among them.  LOUISIANA STATE UNIVEBSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, an educational nonsectarian institution, in Baton Rouge, La.; founded in 1860; reported at the close of 1918: Professors and instructors, 21; students, 326; volumes in the library, 21,000; productive funds, $318,313; grounds and buildings valued at $150,000; income, $47,333; President Thomas D. Boyd, M. A.  LOUIS PHILIPPE, King of the French; born in Paris, France, Oct, 6, 1773. He was the eldest son of Duke Louis Philippe Joseph of Orleans, surnamed Egalité, and during his father's lifetime he was known as Duke of Chartres. He entered the army in 1791, and favoring the popular cause in the Revolution he took part in the battles of Valmy and Jemappes; was present at the bombardment of Venloo and Maestricht, and distinguished himself at Neerwinden. For 21 years he remained exiled from France, living in various European countries and in America. He had become Duke of Orleans on the death of his father in 1793, and in 1809 he married the daughter of Ferdinand IV. of Naples. After the fall of Napoleon I. he returned to France and was reinstated in his rank and property. At the revolution of July, 1830, he was made “Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom,” and in August became king of the French. He reigned for 18 years, when the revolution of 1848 drove him from the throne to England, where he remained till his death in Claremont, Aug. 26, 1850.  LOUIS QUATORZE, the name given to a meretricious style of architecture and internal decoration which prevailed in France in the reign of Louis XIV. It was marked by a deterioration of taste, the natural laws of architecture being more and more neglected, and replaced by certain conventional rules for the application of the Roman columnar orders. The windows are larger, the rooms more lofty, than in the preceding period, and in everything there was a striving after pomp and sumptuousness. Gilt stucco

work was largely used, the scroll and shell patterns being the characteristic features of ornamental decoration, the panels being formed by chains of scrolls, concave and convex alternately, but symmetry of arrangement was largely neglected.  LOUIS QUINZE, the name sometimes given to the style of architecture and internal ornamentation prevailing in France during the reign of Louis XV. It is often known under the designation (q. v.). Internal arrangement and decoration are the main characteristics of the style of this period, and in this direction the best results were doubtless obtained. Large and lofty rooms, as well as scope of display, were indispensable; consequently this style of embellishment was most happily carried out in state apartments, especially in princely castles and palaces and the mansions of the aristocracy. Curved lines superseded all straight lines both in ground plans and in designs, while the most ordinary and characteristic embellishments were volutes, shell-fish and scrolls, groups of fruit, garlands of flowers, hangings, etc.  LOUISVILLE, a city and county-seat of Jefferson co., Ky.; on the Ohio river, and on the Louisville and Nashville; the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville; the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; the Illinois Central; the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Southern railroads. The city is built at the falls of the Ohio 400 miles from its mouth, and is also known as Falls City, a name derived from these rapids which are 27 feet high. Area, 14,348 acres; pop. (1910) 223,928; (1920) 234,891.

The city is provided with modern water and lighting systems, and there is an abundance of electrical power for industrial purposes.

The public buildings of Louisville are of a solid and substantial character. They include the Court House, which is a limestone structure costing $1,000,000; the City Hall; Free Public Library; the United States Government Building; Masonic Temple; Commerce Building; Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home; many public and semi-public institutions, and a magnificent city hospital. Louisville has nearly 250 large industrial plants. These include woodworking plants, metalworking plants, tobacco factories, textile mills, varnish manufactories, paint manufactories, large oil refineries, elevator plants, leather industries, refrigerating machinery plants,