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Lope de Ve'ga. See VEGA CARPIO.

Lopez (Id'pas or Id'path), Narcis'o, Cuban revolutionist, was born in Venezuela in 1799. He served many years in the Spanish army, first in Venezuela, later in Cuba, after the Spanish troops left Venezuela in 1822. In 1849 he came to the United States with a plan for annexing Cuba. He said the Creoles were tired of the Spanish yoke and ready to throw it off. Lopez at the head of the revolutionists made three attempts against Cuba. In 1849 the watchfulness of the United States authorities prevented their making a descent upon the island. In 1850 they made a landing at Cardenas, but were driven to sea. In 1851 Lopez sailed from New Orleans with 500 men and landed at Murillo in Vuelto Abajo. But the people did not rally around them as expected. Many were killed, and 50 were captured and shot at Havana. Lopez with the remnant fled to the woods, but he was captured and on Sept. i, 1851, strangled at Havana.

Lorain', O., in Lorain County, a city at the mouth of Black River, on Lake Erie, 25 miles west from Cleveland, in the natural-gas region and the grape-growing belt, is distinctively an industrial city. It has an excellent natural harbor more than three miles in extent, which with the Nickel Plate, B. and. O., Lake Shore and Wabash railroads furnishes splendid shipping-facilities for its extensive industries. Large quantities of coal, brought by the railroads, are reshipped by boat to the upper-lake cities. The National Tube Co.'s plant, employing more than 8,000 men, manufactures steel rails, steel tubes and billets. The largest boats on fresh water have been built at the Lorain yards of the American Shipbuilding Company. The Thew automatic steam-shovels, gas-engines, refrigerating machinery, gas and gasoline stoves are manufactured here. The population from 1890 to 1900 increased from 4,863 to 16,028, standing first in percentage of growth. The present population is 28,883.

Lorelei (ldfrd-li'}, a rock rising perpendicularly 427 feet from the Rhine near St. Goar It has a celebrated echo, and used to be dangerous to boatmen. The name is best known from Heine's song of the siren, who sits on the rock combing her long tresses and singing so ravishingly that the boatmen, enchanted by the music of her voice, forget their duty and, drawn against the rock, perish.

Loreto (lo-rafto) or Loretto, a city of Italy, situated three miles from the Adriatic and 15 from Ancona. The city is chiefly noted as the site of the sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin called the Santa Casa, which is reputed to be the house in which the Virgin lived at Nazareth, miraculously taken in 1291 to Fiume in Dalmatia; in 1294 to a place near Recanati in Italy;

and finally carried to Lofetto- in 1^5!. T&IS Holy House is a single apartment ,o£ no great size, originally rude in construction, but now cased with white marble and exquisitely sculptured. The image of the Virgin which it contains is traditionally believed to have been carved by St. Luke. The shrine is visited annually by about 50,000 pilgrims, though formerly the number reached 200,000 a year. The church of the Santa Casa has a great central door, with a bronze statue of the Madonna above it, and three bronze doors with bas-reliefs within. Population 4,134.

Lome, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of, a British statesman and, since 1900, duke of Argyll. He was born at London, Aug. 6, 1845, and was educated at Eton, St. Andrew's University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1868. In 1871 he married Princess Louise, the sixth child of Queen Victoria, and was governor-general of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He has written The Book of Psalms, literally rendered in verse; A Trip to the Tropics; Guido, and Litta; Memoirs of Canada and Scotland; and A Life of Lord Palmerston.

Lorrain', The Right Reverend Nar-cisse Zaphirin, was born at St. Martin, Laval County, Quebec, 1842 and began his classical studies in the College of St. Therese, which has trained not a few successful men. His student career was a brilliant one. Ordained priest at Montreal by Bishop Bourget in 1867, in 1869 he was appointed parish-priest of Bedford, New York, and was called to Montreal in 1879. In 1880 he was appointed Vicar-General of the Diocese of Montreal. In 1882 he was consecrated Bishop of Cythera, and removed to Pembroke, where he was to reside as V1'car-Apostolic of Pontiac. Under his guidance as Pembroke's first bishop, numerous substantial churches have been erected, and many others enlarged and improved. The diocese comprises an immense territory, including the counties of Pontiac and Renfrew. It comprised 33 churches, 37 chapels, four convents and three hospitals. The 25th anniversary of Bishop Lorrain's consecration was celebrated on September 21, 1907. Appreciative addresses from the laity, the town-council and the board of education were presented.

Lorraine (lor-rdn'), a country in Europe which at first included Alsace and Fries-land and the lands between the Scheldt, Meuse and Rhine. In 954 Lorraine was divided into Upper and Lower Lorraine. The latter, known as Brabant, now forms part of the kingdom of Belgium and the provinces of Brabant and Guelderland in Holland. Upper Lorraine in 1766 was united to France, and afterward subdivided into the departments of Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe and Vosges. The district between