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LEFT LUMINOUS PAINT 35 LTTNDY 1912, the last year of normal conditions in the industry, amounted to 40 billion board feet, which does not include shin- gles, laths, etc. During the war, how- ever, the demand for lumber for the shipbuilding industry caused great in- roads on our reserves of white pine, spruce, etc. The result has been a notable shortage of supplies for or- dinary building purposes, as well as a shortage of wood for the production of paper. LUMINOUS PAINT, a paint contain- ing phosphorus, which after exposure to strong light becomes luminous in the dark for a time. LUMMIS, CHARLES FLETCHER, an American author; born in Lynn, Mass., March 1, 1859. He was a resi- dent of Los Angeles, Cal. He was de- voted to the archseology and history of the aboriginal tribes of the Southwest. Among his works are: "The Land of Foco Tiempo"; "The Spanish Pioneers"; "The Man "Who Married the Moon"; "The Gold Fish of the Gran Chimu"; "A New Mexico David, and Other Stories"; "The King of the Broncos" (1897) ; "The Enchanted Burro" (1897) ; "The Awakening of a Nation" (1898) ; ''My Friend Will" (1911). LUMP FISH, or SUCKER (Cyclopte- ms lumpus), an acanthopterygious fish, so named from the clumsiness of its form. The back is arched and sharp, the belly flat, the body covered with nu- merous bony tubercles, the ventral fins modified into a sucker, by means of which it adheres with great force to any substance to which it applies itself. Be- fore the spawning season it is of a bril- liant crimson color, mingled with orange, purple, and blue, but afterward changes to a dull blue or lead color. It some- times weighs seven pounds, and its flesh is very fine at some seasons, though in- sipid at others. It frequents the N. seas, and is also called cock paddle, lump sucker, and sea owl. LUNA, the Latin name for the moon, among the Greeks Selene. Her worship is said to have been introduced among the Romans in the time of Romulus. LUNAR TABLES, in astronomy, pon- derous volumes of solid figures which are the numerical development and tab- ulation of some analytical theory of the moon's motions and perturbations. From these are constructed the annual ephem- erides of the moon's hourly position, one of the principal features of a nau- tical almanac. Hansen's "Tables de la Lune" ("Lunar Tables") are the ones from which the principal ephemerides are constructed to-day. LUNAR THEORY, in astronomy, the deduction of the moon's motion from the law of gravitation. LUNATIC ASYLUM. See INSANITY. LUND (lond), a city of Gothland, in the extreme S. of Sweden, 374 miles S. W. of Stockholm and 10 N. E. of Malmo. The principal building is the fine Ro- manesque cathedral, dating from the 11th century, with an imposing crypt. Lund owes its revival to the founding of a university in 1668 by Charles XI. It was attended in 1911 by 1,405 students, and has a library of 120,000 volumes and 3,000 MSS., an excellent zoological mu- seum, and a botanic garden. Tegner was a professor from 1813 to 1826, and here he composed his masterpiece "Frith jof." In the 10th century Lund was a large and powerful city, was made a bishopric in 1048, and an archbishopric in 1104. The archbishop claimed ecclesiastical supremacy over the whole of Scandi- navia. At the same period Lund was the chief seat of the Danish power in the Scandinavian peninsula, and for a long period the capital of the Danish kingdom; at the epoch of its greatest; prosperity it is said to have had 200,000 inhabitants. But after the introduction of the Reformation by Christian III. in 1536, the city began to decline, and had sunk down to a mere village before the end of the 17th century. Pop. about 20,000. LUNDA, a Bantu tribe living in Brit- ish Central Africa. They till the land and trade in ivory and slaves. As a whole they are among the superior Afri- can tribes. LUNDY, a granitic island of Devon- shire. England, in the mouth of the Bristol Channel, 11% miles N. N. W. of Hartland Point; length ZVz miles, breadth 1 mile; has rocky and precipi- tous shores, vdth only one landing-place on the S. side; and an altitude of 525 feet; near the S. end is a lighthouse, built in 1820. The cliffs are the resort of multitudes of sea-fowl. The antiqui- ties include prehistoric kists, remains of round towers and a chapel, and the ruined castle of the Mariscoes (11th to 14th centuries), from whose time on into the 17th century Lvmdy was a strong- hold successively of pirates, buccaneers, privateers, and smugglers. It figures in Kingslev's "Westward Ho!"; was the death-place of "Judas" Stukely; garri- soned till 1647 for Charles I.; and in 1834 purchased for $49,350 by the Heaven family.