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LEFT LYNCH LAW 45 LYONS 3,500 people, almost all negroes, were thus lawlessly put to death. In their lawless acts few members of the mob ever suffer, as the case against them must be tried in the district where the local officers are sympathetic with the lynching. Many lawyers and public men are advocating making lynching an of- fense against Federal law and thus make punishment for participation in it much more certain. LYNCH LAW, punishment, especially capital, inflicted by private individuals, independently of the legal authorities. LYNDSAY. See Lindsay. LYNN, a city in Essex co., Mass., on Massachusetts Bay, and the Boston and Maine and the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn railroads; 5 miles S. W. of Salem, and 11 miles N. E. of Boston. The city contains the villages of East Lynn, Glen- mere, Highlands, Linwood, Lynnmere, West Lynn, and Wyoma. The chief in- dustries are the manufacture of shoes in which it is the first city in the world, morocco leather, and electrical appli- ances, machinery, and foundry products, and patent medicines. There are two public libraries, National and savings banks, waterworks owned by the city, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Lynn was organized as a city in 1850. Pop. (1910) 89,336; (1920) 99,148. LYNX, a common name for the dif- ferent varieties of Felis lynx, or, as some zoologists think, of the different species of the genus Lyncus. The Greek lyngx was probably the caracal. Lynxes shared LYNX with leopards the duty of drawing the chariot of Bacchus; Pliny calls them the most "sharp-sighted of all quadrupeds," hence the epithet lynx-eyed. The lynxes are all of moderate size, but larger than the true cats; limbs long, tail short and stumpy; ears tipped with a pencil of hair, the cheeks bearded, and pads of the feet overgrown with hair; color, light- brown or gray, more or less spotted with a darker shade. They are fierce and sav- age, and prey on sheep and poultry. Their skins are valuable as fur. Felis lynx is the common lynx, found in Scandina- via, Russia, the N, of Asia, and formerly in the forest regions of central Europe; F. cervai-ia is a native of Siberia; F. pardina of Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Sar- dinia, and Spain; and F. isabellina of Tibet. The New World has also four lynxes: F. canadensis, the Canada lynx, the most N. species; F. rufa, the bay or red lynx, extending nearly over the United States, but giving place in Texas and the S. of California to F. ruaculata, and in Oregon and Washington to F. fasciata. Professor Flower is of opinion that, on further investigation, all these will be found to be varieties of a single species. In astronomy, a constellation of Heve- lius, between the head of Ursa Major and the star Capella. None of the stars in the group are larger than the fourth magnitude. LYON, IHARY, an American educator; born in Buckland, Mass., Feb. 28, 1797. After more than 20 years of teaching, she founded at South Hadley, Mass., the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, of which she was president until her death. Many of her pupils afterward established schools on the same plan. She died in South Hadley, March 5, 1849. See MoUNT Holyoke College. LYONS (e-dng'), a city of France, capital of the department Rhone, and the second of the republic in population and commercial importance, situated chiefly on a peninsula between the rivers Rhone and Saone, and on the Paris and Mar- seilles and other railroads, 275 miles E. N. E. of Bordeaux, 172 miles N. N. W. of Marseilles, and 245 miles S. E. of Paris ; lat. 45° 45' 44" N., Ion. 4° 49' 34" E. ; is the great warehouse of the S. of France and of Switzerland; principal manufac- ture silk stuffs, giving employment di- rectly or indirectly to 100,000 hands. It is the seat of an archbishop, and is the chef-lieu of the 7th military division. The cathedral and Church of St. Nizier, the Hotel de Ville (town hall), the finest edifice of the kind in the country, the hospital, the public library with 130,000 volumes, and the Palais des Beaux Arts, are perhaps the most notable among numerous and important institutions. There are also a university-academy, a veterinary school — the first founded in the country — schools for agriculture, medicine, the fine arts, etc. The two rivers are crossed by 24 bridges: 12 over the Saone, 11 over the Rhone, and one at the confluence. The quays, 28 in number, are said to be the most remarkable in Europe. There are several large and important suburbs — La Guillotiere, Les Vol VI — Cyc — D