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 588 OFTERDINGEN OGLE slum, a female seminary in connection with a convent, and an active trade in grain and wine. A statue of Sir Francis Drake was erected here in 1853, in honor of his introduction of pota- toes into Europe. In the vicinity is the reno- vated castle of Ortenberg. Offenburg was once a free imperial city. It suffered much from wars in the 17th century. The French were de- feated here by the imperialists, Sept. 24, 1707. OFTERDINGEN, Heinrieh Yon, a German min- strel, who flourished about 1200. He was a native of Saxony, but is believed to have spent much of his 1 life at the court of Austria, and is one of the reputed authors, according to Simrock, of the second part of the Wartburg- Jcrieg, and according to Spaun of the Nibe- lungenlied; but he had nothing to do with the latter, and his connection with the former and other works is also contested. He is repre- sented in the poem of the Sangerlcrieg as one of the great minstrels in the poetical contest at the Wartburg, and his fame has been revived in modern times by Novalis, who made him the hero of an unfinished romance. OG, king of Bashan, one of the two kings of the Amorites who withstood the invasion of the Israelites under Moses. He was utterly defeated at Edrei, his threescore cities were ta- ken, and his kingdom was given to the half tribe of Manasseh. He was a giant, his iron bedstead, which was kept in Rabbath-Ammon, being 9 cubits long and 4 broad. Many stories in regard to his great size are also found in rabbinical and Mohammedan writers. OGDENSBURG, a city of St. Lawrence co., New York, port of entry of the district of Os- wegatchie, situated on the St. Lawrence river, at the mouth of the Oswegatchie, 72 m. below Lake Ontario and 4 m. above the rapids, at the terminus of the Rome, Watertown, and Og- densburg railroad, and of a division of the Ver- mont Central railroad, 175 m. N. W. of Al- bany ; pop. in 1860, 7,409 ; in 1870, 10,076, of whom 4,072 were foreigners ; in 1874, 11,- 340. It is regularly laid out and handsomely built, and the streets are lined with maples, from which circumstance it derives the title of " Maple City." It is lighted with gas, and is supplied with water on the Holly plan by 14 m. of water mains. The public buildings are the town house, eight large brick and stone school houses, six churches, and the edifice (costing $275,000) occupied by the custom house, post office, and the United States court. Three ferry steamers run to Prescott, Can- ada, on the opposite bank of the St. Law- rence, and there is a line of 23 steamers to Chicago. The commerce of Ogdensburg is im- portant. The receipts of grain amount to about 5,000,000 bushels annually, and of lum- ber to about 75,000,000 feet. The value of exports to foreign ports (Canada) for the year ending June 30, 1874, was $741,497; of im- ports from Canada, $1,977,751. The entrances in the foreign trade were 434, of 88,380 tons; clearances, 434, of 88,856 tons; entrances in the coastwise trade, 620, of 176,957 tons; clearances, 620, of 177,897 tons; belonging in the district, 85 vessels, of 3,636 tons. The water power is excellent, and is employed in the production of flour, rough and planed lum- ber, shingles, and staves. About 300,000 bar- rels of flour and 10,000,000 feet of lumber are annually manufactured. There are three pri- vate banks, a public school library of 3,500 volumes, and three newspapers. The public schools are graded and have an average at- tendance of 1,020 pupils. Ogdensburg is the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop. It was founded in 1749, incorporated as a village in 1817, and as a city in 1868. OGEMAW, a K E. county of the S. peninsula of Michigan, drained by Rifle river and other streams ; area, 576 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 12. The surface is rolling, with a general slope to the S. E. The soil is fertile. OGGIONE, or Vggione, Marco da, an Italian painter, born at Oggione, near Milan, about 1470, died in 1530. He was a pupil of Leonar- do da Vinci. His chief works are the frescoes executed for the church della Pace in Milan, but he is perhaps best known by his celebrated copy of Da Vinci's "Last Supper," executed about 1510, now in the royal academy in London. OGILBY, John, a Scottish poet, born in Edin- burgh in 1600, died in London, Sept. 4, 1676. While a boy he removed with his parents to Lon- don, where he subsequently became a dancing master. Through the earl of Strafford he was appointed master of the revels in Ireland, and built a theatre in Dublin ; but the civil wars having ruined his prospects, he returned to England, and studied at Cambridge. He pub- lished various metrical translations, including one of Homer, which was a favorite with Pope in his younger days. At the restoration he was reappointed master of the revels in Ireland, but was ruined by the fire of London. He published nine volumes of a descriptive " Geography of the World," to be disposed of by lottery ; of these, "America" (fol., Lon- don, 1671) is curious and valuable. OGILYIE, John, a Scottish poet, born in Aberdeen in 1733, died at Midmar, Aberdeen- shire, in 1814. He was educated at Mari- schal college, Aberdeen, and in 1759 was set- tled as minister of the parish of Midmar. He wrote " The Day of Judgment," a poem (1758) ; "Providence, an Allegorical Poem" (1763); and " Solitude, or the Elysium of the Poets " (1765). A collection of his poems was pub' lished in 1769. His critical and theological works include " An Inquiry into the Causes of Scepticism and Infidelity in all Times " (1783), and " The Theology of Plato compared with the Principles of the Oriental and Grecian Philosophers " (1793). OGLE, a N. county of Illinois, intersected by Rock river ; area, about 576 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 27,492. The surface is rolling, and the soil very fertile. It is traversed by the Illinois Central and the Chicago and Iowa railroads.