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LYNN and is handsomely laid out. Further out is St. Mary's cemetery (Roman Catholic). A monu- ment in memory of the soldiers who fell in the civil war was dedicated in 1873. Lynn is cele- brated for its manufacture of shoes, in which it surpasses every other place in the United States. There are nearly 200 establishments engaged in the business, employing about 10,- 000 hands. The shipments in 1871 were 200,- 801 cases, containing 9,036,045 pairs; in 1872, 226,360 cases, 10,186,200 pairs; in 1873, 213,- 080 cases, 9,528,600 pairs. The value of the shipments is from $13,000,000 to $14,000,000 a year. The larger part of the goods consists of low-priced shoes for women, misses, and children, though nearly every variety of sewed boots and shoes is made here. In 1873 there were 180 McKay sole-sewing machines in use in the city, and of the whole production 7,064,- 467 pairs were bottomed on these machines. The manufacture of morocco, embracing kid and sheep skins as well as goat skins, is of con- siderable importance. From 15 to 20 manu- facturers are engaged in the business, employ- ing 400 workmen and about $1,000,000 capital. The largest factory is capable of tanning and finishing 5,000 skins a week. There are also some minor manufactures, embracing machine needles, shoe machinery, boxes, carriages, ce- ment, &c. ; three national banks, with a joint capital of $1,000,000; two fire insurance com- panies; and two savings banks, with deposits in 1873 amounting to $3,018,102 82. The city is divided into seven wards, and is governed by a mayor, a board of aldermen of 8 and a common council of 22 members. It has a fire department and a police force, and is supplied with water from Reed's pond in the N. W. part of the city, by works erected at a cost of $800,000. The valuation of property in 1850 was $4,834,843 ; in 1855, $8,284,649; in 1860, $9,649,065; in 1865, $10,619,006; in 1870, $20,927,115 ; in 1873, $27,456,438. The taxa- tion in 1873 amounted to $531,925 40, of which $34, 402 50 was for state and $21,006 80 for county purposes. The expenditures were $858,642 69, the principal items of which were $33,144 36 for the fire department, $94,328 02 for interest, $188,275 73 for the introduction of water, $48,315 77 for laying out, altering, and lighting streets, $32,873 06 for the poor department, $24,125 10 for the police depart- ment, $5,000 for the public library, $103,447 39 for the school department (of which $71,- 437 81 was for teachers' wages), $24,822 50 for salaries, and $42,257 65 for school houses. The net debt, Jan. 1, 1874, was $1,785,303. The public schools are graded, and in a flour- ishing condition. The number of children of school age (5 to 15 years) in 1873 was 7,202 ; number of public day schools, 58 (1 high, 7 grammar, and 50 primary) ; number of teach- ers, 105 (7 male and 98 female); average number of pupils enrolled, 4,720 ; average at- tendance, 4,095 ; value of school property, $452,800. The number of evening schools LYNX 753 taught was 8 ; number of teachers, 52 ; pupils enrolled, 845; average attendance, 481. The public library on Jan. 1, 1874, contained 18,- 635 volumes and 3,027 pamphlets. A semi- weekly and three weekly newspapers are pub- lished. The number of churches is 30, viz. : 4 Baptist, 1 Christian, 4 Congregational, 2 Episcopal, 1 . Freewill Baptist, 1 Friends', 8 Methodist, 2 Roman Catholic, 1 Second Advent, 2 Spiritualist, 1 Unitarian, 2 Universalist, 1 miscellaneous. Lynn was settled in 1629, and incorporated as a city in 1850. Swampscott was taken from it in 1852, and Nahant in 1853. LYNN-REGIS, or Ring's Lynn, a parliamentary borough and seaport of Norfolk, England, on the Great Ouse near the Wash, 38 m. W. N. W. of Norwich ; pop. in 1871, 17,266. Four small rivulets called fleets, crossed by numerous bridges, intersect the town in various direc- tions. There are extensive remains of the old embattled wall and bastions. The streets, ex- cepting the newer ones, are narrow. The chapel of St. Nicholas, erected in the 14th century, is one of the finest in the kingdom, in the Gothic style, 200 ft. in length and 78 ft. in breadth. Lynn exports corn, wool, sand for glass, and various manufactures, and imports coals, timber, hemp, wine, cork, tallow, &c. King's Lynn, the English form of the name, has been adopted to avoid confusion with Lyme-Regis, a town in Dorsetshire. LINX, a carnivorous mammal, usually ar- ranged with the cats, but differing from the genus fells in wanting the small upper premo- lar next the canine, the dentition being inci- sors , canines {~, and molars f~f =28. The head is short and arched; jaws short; ears short, erect, and more or less tufted ; fore feet with five toes, and hind feet with four, with Canada Lynx. retractile nails ; tail as long as or shorter than the head, and truncated at the tip ; body short and stout. There are certain differences in the skull also, which justify a separation from