Louisville

(loo'is-vil,) a fine and flourishing city of Kentucky, C. of Jefferson co., on the Ohio, 43 m. W. of Frankfort. It is well and handsomely built, and po e es many elegant public edifices, and is supplied with water from the Ohio, and by Dupont's artesian well, which is one of the deepest in the world, being 2,086ft. in depth, with a diameter of 3 inches. This well supplies 330,000 gallons of water in 24 hours, to an elevation of 170 ft. above the surface. L. has many important manufactures, but owes chiefly its wealth to its immense commercial traffic with the W. and S. States of the Union. Pop. 100,753. Louse, (lous,) pl. LICE. (Zool.) See ANOPLURA. Louth, (lowth,) an E. and maritime co. of Ireland, p. Leinster, separated from the cos. Armagh and Down by Carling ford Bay; area, 315 sq. m.; C. Dundalk. Pop. 69,809. Louth, a town of England, co. Lincoln, 22 m. E.N.Ε. of Lincoln. Pop. 10,500. Louvain, (loo'vn,) [D.Leuven,] a manuf. city of Belgium, p. S. Brabant, on the Dyle, 16 m. E.N.E. of Bru els. Its university, once ranking among the greatest in Europe, was founded in 1426. Pop. 31,927. Louviers, (loo've-a,) a town of France, dept. Eure, on the Eure, 16 m. S.E. of Rouen. It is one of the first seats of the woollen manufacture in France, and is noted for its fine broad cloths. Pop. 11,707. Louvois, FRANÇOIS MICHEL LETELLIER, MARQUIS DE, (loo'vwaw,) an eminent French statesman, B. in Paris, 1641, became minister of war in 1666. His able management of that dept., mainly contributing as it did to the succe es of the French armies in Flanders, brought him into high favor with Louis XIV., who nominated him prime minister in succe ion to his rival Colbert. In his new position, however, he manifested both intolerance and im policy. He prevailed on the king to revoke the Edict of Nantes, 1685, and also counselled that dreadful ravage of the Palatinate by fire and sword, which still rests as ab lot upon the character of his master. D. 1691. Louvre, (loo'vr.) [From Fr. l'ouvert, the opening.] (Arch.) A turret or lantern - shaped cupola, formerly placed on the roof of a building to permit the escape of smoke from the fires in the interior. Love-apple, (luv'- ap-pl.) (Bot.) A name of the Tomato. See LYCOPERSICUM. Love, (COURT OF.) [Fr. Cour d'Amour.] (Hist.) The name conferred in France, during the Middle Ages, upon a tribunal presided over by ladies of eminence, for the adjudication of questions of social etiquette, gallantry, and the like. (-fest.) (Eccl.) Among the Methodists, ak ind of socio-religious meeting held periodically for the encouragement of harmony and kindly feeling among the members of their persuasion.. (Bot.) See A MARANTA CEE. SAMUEL, (luv'r,) an Irish poet and novelist, B. in Dublin, 1797; D. 1868. He has written some exquisite ballads-as, for instance, the Angel's Whisper and contributed to English fiction Legends and Stories of Ireland; Handy Andy; Rory O' More, and other well-known works. Countries, (The,) (kün'triz.) (Geog.) The name under which was formerly familiarly understood that N.E. portion of the European continent which now forms Belgium and Holland, or the Netherlands. JAMES RUSSELL, (lo'el,) an eminent American poet and literate ur, B. in Boston, 1819. After graduating at Harvard in 1838, and being admitted to the bar three years later, he abandoned the legal profe ion for that of literature-a renunciation for which the English reading-world has become his debtor. In 1855he s. Prof. Long fellow in the chair of modern languages and belles-lettres at Harvard; and in 1857 undertook the editorial control of the " Atlantic Monthly." Several editions of his collected poetical works have been published in the U. States and England, and his witty, satirical brochure, the well - known Bigelow Papers, is one of the best examples of the " humorous " in English literature. In 1877 was appointed Minister to Spain. (lõ'ěl,) an important manuf. city in Ma achusetts, C. of Middle sex co., at the point of junction of the Concord and Merrimac rivers, 25 m. W. by N. of Boston. The statistics of L. for 1871 gave the following information: Capital invested in cotton and woollen manufactures, $14,000,000; mills, 69; spindles, 570,586; looms, 13,466; female operatives, 9,404, and male operatives, 5,413-making a total of 14,817 persons. The taxable property was valued at $27,811,353. Pop. 40,928. California, a peninsula of the S.W. coast of the N. Amer. continent, extending from bet. N. Lat. 22° 52′, W. Lon. 109° 53′, to N. Lat. 32° 30′, W. Lon. 117° 30'; and has a length of about 750 m.by a mean breadth of 90. Area, 70,000 sq. m. Politically, it constitutes a state of the Mexican republic; is traversed throughout by an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada range; and is in general a sterile and unprofitable country. C. La Paz. It was discovered by Fortuno Ximenes in 1534. Pop. 21,000. [s. 558]