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LEFT ROE 89 ROEBLING weapons. The habits of the' roe are some- what like those of the goat, or even of ROE BUCK the chamois. Contrary to what is usual among deer, the male and female remain HEAD OF ROE BUCK attached during life. The voice of the roe-deer, resembling that of a sheep, but shorter and more barking, is often heard through the night. The venison is supe- rior to that of the stag, but not equal to that of the fallow deer. The horns are used for handles of carving knives and similar articles. ROE, CHARLES FRANCIS, an Amer- ican military officer; born in New York City, May 1, 1848; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1868, and was assigned to the 2d Cavalry, then on the Pacific slope. In 1898 he was appointed a Brigadier-General of volun- teers. He died in 1900. ROE, EDWARD PAYSON, an Amer- ican novelist; born in Orange co., N. Y., March 7, 1838. He wrote a great num- ber of very popular novels. His first novel, "Barriers Burned Away" (1872), met with immediate success, and was fol- lowed by "What Can She Do?" (1873) ; "The Opening of a Chestnut Burr" (1874) ; "From Jest to Earnest" (1875) ; "Near to Nature's Heart" (1876) ; "A Knight of the Nineteenth Century" (1877) ; "A Face Illumined" (1878) ; "A Day of Fate" (1880) ; "Without a Home" (1881); "His London Rivals" (1883); "Nature's Serial Story" (1884) ; "Driven Back to Eden" (1885) ; "He Fell in Love With His Wife" (1886); "The Earth Trembled" (1887); "A Hornet's Nest" (1887) ; "Found, Yet Lost" (1888) ; "Miss Lou" (1888); and "Taken Alive, and Other Stories." He died in Cornwall, N. Y., July 19, 1888. ROEBLING, JOHN AUGUSTUS, an American engineer; born in Muhlhausen, Prussia, June 6, 1806; came to the United States in 1831, and settled in Pitts- burgh, Pa. His first work was as assis- tant engineer on the dock navigation of Beaver river, a tributary of the Ohio. He soon found employment in the Penn- sylvania State service, and for three years was engaged in surveying and lo- cating three railroads from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh across the Allegheny Moun- tains. These roads were in due course built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. In 1844 he secured the contract to remove the wooden aqueduct of the Pennsylvania canal across the Allegheny river, which had become unsafe and to replace it with a new structure. His next piece of construction was the Mononga- hela suspension bridge at Pittsburgh. He then, within two years, built a series of four suspension aqueducts on the line of the Delaware and Hudson canal, connect- ing the Hudson river with the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. He re- moved from Pennsylvania about this time, to Trenton, N. J., where he estab-, lished his wire works. He next built a