The earliest poet, in Greek legend, is Orpheus

The name of this mythical person is the Greek form of the Indian Ribhu. The Ribhus figure in the Indian hymns as great artificers, the first mortals who were raised to the gods. Jebb, Greek Lit., p. 18. Orpheus and Eurydice. See Orfeo ed Euridice . Orpheus C. Kerr ("Office-seeker"). The pseudonym of Robert Henry Newell. Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes. A replica of an Attic high relief of the school of Phidias, in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The group is shown just at the moment when Orpheus having looked back, must lose his wife forever. It is full of the charm and high ideal quality of the best Greek work. Orr (or), James Lawrence. Born at Craytonville, S. C., May 12, 1822: died at St. Petersburg, May 5, 1873. An American politician. He was a member of Congre from South Carolina 1849 1859; speaker of the House 1857-59; Confederate senator 1862-65; governor of South Carolina 1865-68; and United States minister to Ru ia 1873. Orrery, Earls of. See Boyle . Orrhoene. See Osrhoene. Orsay (or-sa'), Comte Alfred Guillaume Ga briel d'. Born at Paris about 1798: died at Paris, Aug. 4, 1852. A leader of society in Paris and London, and amateur of the fine arts. He is noted for his intimacy with the Counte of Ble ing ton. In 1827 he married Lady Harriet Gardiner, daughter of Lord Ble ing ton by his first wife. She soon left him, and Lady Ble ing ton, who was then a widow, took up her abode with him. Their house was the resort of a brilliant literary and fashionable society. On his bankruptcy in 1849, they returned to Paris, where the counte died in a few weeks. Orsini (or-sēnē). A Roman princely family, formerly powerful in Rome and elsewhere in Italy. Orsini, Felice. Born at Meldola, Forli, Italy, 1819: executed at Paris, March 13, 1858. An Italian patriot and revolutionist. He attempted, with others to a a inate Napoleon III. by expl exploding Orsino (ôr-se'nō). A character in Shakspere's play "Twelfth Night," the Duke of Illyria. He loves Olivia, who discourages him. He finally marries Viola, who secretly loves him and has served him as a Orsk (orsk). A town in the government of Orenburg, eastern Ru ia, situated on the Ural about 150 miles east-southeast of Orenburg. Population (1891), 18,067. Orson. See Valentine and Orson. page. Orsova sov a (or'shō-vo), Old, and Orsova, New. Two villages in Hungary, situated at the Iron Gates of the Danube, near the Rumanian and Servian frontiers. New Orsova was a Turkish fortre until 1878. Örsted, or Oersted (er's ted), Anders Sandõe. Born at Rudkjöbing, Denmark, Dec. 21, 1778: died May 1, 1860. A noted Danish statesman. jurist, and author: brother of H. C. Örsted. He was premier 1853–54. Orsted, Hans Christian. Born at Rudkjöbing, Denmark, Aug. 14, 1777: died March 9, 1851. A Danish physicist, profe or at Copenhagen, especially celebrated for his discovery of electromagnetism in 1819. He published "Aanden i Naturen" ("Spirit in Nature," 1850), etc. Orsua, Pedro de. See Ursua . Orta (or'tä). A small town in the province of Novara, northern Italy, situated on the Lake of Orta 27 miles north-northwest of Novara. Orta, Lake of Orta, Lake of, or Lago Cusio (lagō közē-ō). A small lake in the province of Novara, northern Italy, 6 miles west of Lago Maggiore. Length, 74 miles. Ortegal (ôr'te-gal; Sp. pron. ōr-tā-gäl'), Cape. A cape at the northwestern extremity of Spain: Örtel (er'tel), Philipp Fried rich Wilhelm: pseudonym W. O. von Horn. Born at Horn, near Simmern, Pru ia, Aug. 15, 1798: died at Wiesbaden, Pru ia, Oct. 14, 1867. A German writer of popular stories. Ortelius (or-tē'li-us) (Latinized from Oertel or Ortell), Abraham. Born at Antwerp, 1527: died at Antwerp, 1598. A Flemish geographer. He published atlas, "The at rum orb is terrarum"( "(1570), etc. He came to England in 1577, and it was his encouragement and solicitation that induced Camden to produce his "Britannia." Ortenau (or'te-nou). A region in central Baden, lying east of the Rhine, west of the Black Forest, and north of the Breisgau. Orth (ôrth), Godlove Stoner. Born near Lebanon, Pa., April 22, 1817: died at Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 16, 1882. An American politician. He was member of Congre from Indiana 1863-71, 18731875, and 1879-82, and United States minister to Austria 1875-77. Orthez (or-tāz'). A town in the department of Ba es-Pyrénées, France, situated on the Gave de Pau 25 miles northwest of Pau. It was the an cient capital of Béarn. Later it was a Protestant center. Near it, Feb. 27, 1814, the English and Spanish forces under Wellington defeated the French under Soult. Population (1891), commune, 6,210. Ortler (ort'ler), or Ortler Spitze (ort'ler spit'se). The highest mountain in the Austrian empire, situated in the western part of Tyrol, near the Italian frontier, 40 miles northwest of Trent. It is the highest mountain of the eastern Alps, and was formerly supposed to be the highest peak in Europe. Height, 12,810 feet. Ortler Alps. A group of the Alps including the Ortler. It forms the watershed of the Adige, Adda, and Oglio basins. Orton (ôr'ton), Arthur. The real name of the Tichborne claimant. See Tichborne . Orton, James. Born at Seneca Falls, N. Y., April 21, 1830: died on Lake Titicaca, Peru, Sept. 25, 1877. An American Congregational clergyman, naturalist, and traveler. He was appointed profe or of natural sciences at Rochester University in 1866, and profe or of natural history at Va ar Col lege in 1869. In 1867 and 1873 he conducted expeditions to South America, cro ing the Andes and descending the Amazon. In 1876 he undertook the exploration of the river Bení, but was forced to return, and died on his way home. He published "The Andes and the Amazon" (1870 and 1876), "Comparative Zoology" (1875), etc. Ortona (or-to'nä). A seaport in the province provin of Chieti, eastern Italy, situated on the Adriatic 14 miles east of Chieti. It was the capital of the ancient Frentani. Population (1881), 6,894; commune, 12,122. Ortygia (ôr-tij'i-ä). [Gr. 'OΟρτυγία.] In ancient geography, a small island at the entrance of the Great Harbor of Syracuse, Sicily. It was famous in the sieges of that city. Oruba (ō-rö'bä), or Aruba (ä-rö'bä). A small island of the West Indies, situated in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela, in lat. 12° 31′ N., long. 70° 3′ W. It belongs to the Netherlands, and is attached to the colony of Curaçao. Area, 69 square miles. Population (1890), 7,743. Orungu (ō-röng'gö). A small Bantu tribe of French Kongo, West Africa, settled around the mouth of the Ogowe and Cape Lopez. They are a branch of the Mpongwe. Oruro (ō-röʻrō). 1. A department in western Bolivia, bordering on Peru and Chile. Area, 21,331 square miles. Population, 189,840.-2. The capital of the department of Oruro, situ ated about 150 miles northwest of Sucre. Pop ulation, about 10,000. Orvieto (or-ve-a'to). A town in the province of Perugia, Italy, situated on a volcanic hill 60 milesuit by some the ancient Urbi bentum, and medieval Urbs Vetus. It is noted for its picturesque site, Etruscan necropolis, cathedral, well, private residences, and wine. The cathedral, founded 1290, is in plan a Latin cro with square chevet, 293 feet long, 107 wide, and 111) high to the open-framed wooden roof. The interior is of basilican character, except for its narrow pointed clearstory windows. The building is extremely sculptured font the richter kant of all kinds by The splendid octagonal Sign or ell i are especially noteworthy. The west front (1310) frontypen Sicherellesteworthyst existence. It has three vertical divisions, separated by piers and pinnacles, and terminating in lofty gables filled with mosaics. Below there are three great canopied doors, and between the doors and the gables mosaics, an arcade, and a central rose-window inscribed in a richly decorated square. The piers between and at the sides of the portals are covered with admirable reliefs by Giovanni Pisano and Arnolfo, representing the Creation, the Patriarchs and Prophets, the Life of Christ, and the Last Judgment. The façade is 174 feet high and 131 wide. Population (1881), 7,304; commune, 15,931. Orville (or'vil), Lord. The lover of Evelina, in Mi Burney's novel of that name. Oryekhoff-Zuyeff (or-yech'of-zö'yef). A cotton-manufacturing village in the government of Vladimir, Ru ia, about 55 miles east of Moscow. Orzechowski (or-zhe-chov'skē) (L. Orichovius), Stan is law. Born at Przemysl, Galicia, about 1515: died 1566 (f). A Polish theologian, by turns a champion and an opponent of the Reformation in Poland. Osage (ō'saj): their own name is Wacace (wäsha shā). [Pl., also Osages .] A tribe of the Dhegiha division of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, composed of the Great Osage and Little Osage. Great Osage is the common but erroneous name for the Highland Osage ('those who camped at the top of the hill '), and Little Osage is a similarly erroneous name for the Lowland Osage ('those who camped at the base of the hill'). The Osage are in Oklahoma, and number 1,581. See Dhegiha . Osage (ō'sāj or ō-sāj'). A river in eastern Kansas and in Mi ouri, which flows into the Mi ouri 9 miles east of Jefferson City. It is called in Kansas Marais des Cygnes. Length, 400-500 miles; navigable about 200 miles. Osaka. See Ozaka . Osaka (o-sä kä). A Bantu tribe of French Kon- go neighbors and kinsmen of the Bakele. go, Osbaldistone aldistone (os-bâl'dis-ton), (os-bal'dis-ton), Francis. The nominal hero of Scott's "Rob Roy." Osbaldistone, Rashleigh. The villain of Scott's "Rob Roy." Roy." He is the cousin of Francis, and a well-drawn character. Osborn (oz'bėrn), Sherard. Born April 25, 1822: died May 6, 1875. A British admiral and arctic explorer. He entered the navy in 1837; a isted in the reduction of Canton in 1841; took part in two expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin (publishing accounts in 1852 and 1856); and served in the Crime an and second Chinese wars. In Dec., 1859, he published "The Career, Last Voyage, and Fate of Sir John Franklin." Osborne (oz'bern), George. A character in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," the handsome, selfish husband of Amelia: in the opinion of his friends, "a regular Don Giovanni, by Jove!" Osborne, John. A character in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair.” One of the powerful portraits in the work is that of old Osborne, George's father. If it have a defect, it is that it is too uniformly black. It is made up of arrogance, vanity, malignity, vindictivene , ingratitude; in short, of all the bad pa ions and bad tendencies that are capable of coexistence. Senior, E ays on Fiction, p. 326. Osborne House. The winter residence of Queen Victoria, in the Isle of Wight, near East Cowes: a large and sumptuous modern Italian villa, with beautiful terraces and gardens. Oscar (os'kär) I. (Joseph Franz). [Sw. Dan. Oskar , NL. Oscarus .] Born at Paris, July 4, 1799: died at Stockholm, July 8, 1859. King of IMG:content-0761.png:[blocks in formation] Aug. 30, 1812: died at New York, April 14, 1880. An American clergyman and writer. He was-originally a Unitarian, but joined the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1870. His works include "Studies in Christian Biography" (1850), "God with Man, etc." (1853), "The Hearth-Stone, etc." (1854), "Mile-Stones in our Life "American Journey (1854) Student Life" (1860), IMG:content-0762.png:[ocr errors] Leaves, etc." (1867), "New York in the 19th Century (1867), etc. He also edited "The Holy Gospels" (1856), illustrated by Over beck. O'Shaughne y (ō-sha'ne-si), Arthur William Edgar. Born at London, March 14, 1844: died Jan. 30, 1881. An English minor poet. He was an a istant in the natural history division of the British Museum. He published "Epic of Women, etc." (1870), "The Lays of France" (1872), "Music and Moonlight, etc." (1874), "Songs of a Worker" (1881). Oshiba (ō-she'bä). See Fan . Oshkosh (osh'kosh). A city, capital of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, situated on Lake Winnebago, at the mouth of the Fox River, 80 miles north-northwest of Milwaukee. It has man ufactures of doors, blinds, sashes, shingles, etc. Population (1890), 22,836. Osiander (ō-ze-än'der) (Hosemann), Andreas. Born at Gun zen hausen, near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Dec. 19, 1498: died at Königsberg, Pru ia, Oct. 17, 1552. A German Protestant theo logian. He was instrumental in introducing the Reformation into Nuremberg, and is noted as a controversialist on the doctrine of justification. Osiandrians (ō-si-an'dri-anz). Followers of Andreas Osiander (see above), who held that justification by daith in bed the held that the believer of the e ential righteousne of Christ. Osimo (os'ē-mō). A town in the province of Ancona, Italy, 9 miles south of Ancona: the ancient Auximum. It has a cathedral and some antiquities. Population, 4,743. Osiris (ō-si'ris). [L. Osiris , Gr. " Όσιρις , also Ὕσιρις , from Egyptian Hesiri .] In Egyptian mythology, one of the chief gods, the principle of good, the creator, the foe of evil, the god of the Nile, in constant conflict with his brother or son Set (the Greek Typhon), the god of evil, of darkne , of the desert. Osiris is vanquished and slain, but revives, and is avenged by Horus and Thoth evidently a personification of the phenomena of the rising and setting sun. He was the guardian of mankind in the state after death, and as such the nocturnal sun, and a type of the sufferings and triumphs of humanity. In one form (the Osiris of Mendes) he personified the male principle. In art he was portrayed as a mummy wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, usually flanked by ostrich-plumes.