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Grimm connects the name with Alp, Alb, = elf, and he may be regarded as an importation from the Tentonic Pantheon, invested, however, with many Keltic and Christian as well as Asiatic attributes. M. Long non, in the Romania, vol. iii, has carefully worked out the probable connection of Huon with the reign of Charles the Bald. Whatever the historical element in the romance, Oberon became an e ential part in it as early as the thirteenth century. Dunlop, Hist. of Prose Fiction, I. 296, note. 2. The fourth satellite of Uranus, discovered by La ell in 1847.-3. A romantic poem, one of the chief works of Wiel and, publishe published in 1780. -4. A romantic opera by K. M. von Weber, produced at London in 1826. The libretto in English is by Planche. It was also produced with an Italian libretto at London in 1860, with various additions from "Euryanthe," etc. Oberpfalz. See Palatinate . Oberstein (ō'ber-stin). A town in Birkenfeld, Oldenburg, Germany, situated on the Nahe 47 miles west-southwest of Mainz. The leading industry is agate-cutting and-polishing. Near there are fifty polishing-mills. Population (1890), 6,271. Oberwesel (ō'ber-vā'zel). Atown in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, situated on the Rhine 19 miles south-southeast of Coblenz. Near it is the castle of Schönburg. Population (1890), 2,521. Obi (ō'bē), or Ob (ob). A navigable river of Siberia, formed by the union of the Biya and Katun, and flowing into the Gulf of Obi. Its chie 1 Obi tributary is the Irtish. On its banks are Tomsk, Barnaul, and Narym. Length, about 2,100 miles; including the Irtish, about 2,500 miles. Obi, Gulf of. An inlet of the Arctic Ocean, north of Siberia. Length, about 600 miles. Obion (ō-bi'on) River. A river in western Tenne ee which joins the Mi i ippi 57 miles above Memphis. Length, about 130-140 miles. Obligado, Punta de, Battle of. See Punta de Obligado. Oblivion, Act of. An English statute of 1660, entitled "An Act of Free Generall Pardon, Indempnity, and Oblivion," by which all political offenses committed during the time of the Commonwealth were pardoned, certain offenders mentioned by name in the act being excepted, especially those engaged in the trial and execution of Charles I. Also called Act of Indemnity. Obok, or Obock (ō-bok'). A French colony and protectorate in Africa, on the Gulf of Aden, opposite the southwestern extremity of Arabia, and extending about 40 miles inland. Obok and Tajurah are the chief towns. Obongo (ō-bong'gō), or Abongo. A tribe of pygmies in French Kongo, west Africa. Their stature is between 44 and 5 feet; color brown; hair tufty and woolly, spreading over er the body; and head brachycephalous. They are hunters and fishermen, of nomadic instinct, and live in round gra huts. They are tributary to Bantu tribes on whose skirts they live. They are found in different parts of French Kongo, and are variously called Babongo , Akwa , Okwa , etc., and represent the Matimbos of the Portuguese discoverers. See Pygmies . Obrenovitch (ō-bren'ō-vich). The family name of the reigning dynasty of Servia. This dynasty brenovitch, who was proclaimed hereditary prince of 1827. His succe ors have been his son Michael, his grandnephew Milan, and the latter's son Alexander. O'Brien (ō-brī'en), Fitz-James. Born at Limerick, Ireland, 1828: died April 6, 1862. An Irish American littérateur. He was educated at Dublin University, and came to the United States in 1852. He wrote weird stories after the manner of Poe. Among his works is "The Diamond Lens, and Other Stories," collected and published in 1887. O'Brien (ō-brī'en), William. Born 1852. An Irish politician and journalist. He entered Parliament as a Nationalist in 1883, is editor of "United Ireland," and has a number of times been imprisoned under the Coercion Act. In 1890, having been liberated on bail pending a political trial, he escaped to the United States in order to fulfil an engagement as a lecturer. O'Brien, William Smith. Born in County Clare, Ireland, Oct. 17, 1803: died at Bangor, North Wales, June 18, 1864. An Irish revolutionist. He entered Parliament in 1828; became a leading member of the Repeal A ociation, which he left in 1846; was a leader of the Young Ireland party; incited an un succe ful insurrection 1848; and was arrested in 1848, transported in 1849, and pardoned in 1856. Observations of Bel. See the extract. The standard work on astronomy, as has already been noted, was that called "The Observations of Bel,” compiled originally for the library of Sargon I. at Accad. Additions were made to it from time to time, the chief object of the work being to notice the events which happened after each celestial phenomenon. Thus the occurrences which at different periods followed a solar eclipse on a particular day were all duly introduced into the text and piled, as it were, one upon the other. The table of contents pre fixed to the work showed that it treated of various matters eclipses of the sun and moon, the conjunction of the sun and moon, the phases of Venus and Mars, the position of the pole-star, the changes of the weather, the ap pearance of comets, or, as they are called, "stars with a tail behind and a corona in front," and the like.