Brigands
a name originally given to the mercenaries who held Paris during King John's imprisonment (1358), and who made themselves notorious for Academy of Design, and was a pupil of Froissart to a kind of irregular foot Arts. Elected to the American Academy J. L. Gérôme, and at the Ecole des Beaux ferred to simple robbers; it is now used especially of such of these as live in bands in secret mountain or forest retreats. In Cuba, in 1888, political dispieces. Among his notable paintings are "Procession in Honor of Isis" and "The where four provinces were on this account declared in a state of siege. Religious persecution also has encouraged 21, 1829. She was a bright, intelligent blind mute, born in Hanover, N. H., Dec. always produced the most perfect speciand hearing were entirely destroyed by child, but at two years of age both sight common, the unhappy Christians, who were reduced by the Turks to the coneven learned to sew and to knit a little. est cold.
In 1839 Dr. Howe, of Boston, undererally speaking, in countries with a to give her a knowledge of arbitrary in many districts as notably overcrowded, brigandage ge will be still thoughts with others. Then she learned taken during the last 50 years to repress the practice, and in some coun- BRIDGEWATER tries with signal success. In Greece, organized villas. Bridgetown is the residence of of highway robbers , fortuitously collected, have disappeared; and, in Italy, the chiefs with whom princes made treaties are found only in history.
New Haven and Hartford railroad; 27 obsolete. In Sicily it is still active at lages and has a State Normal School, the State Farm, State Almshouse, a public library, a savings bank, and merchant me and the deboots, shoes, and brick. Pop. (1910) by the boldness of brigands in the Pyrenees, Tuscany, Servia, Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Mexico. born in 1736. With the assistance of Inland Navigation in Great Britain," the old British tribes, inhabiting the country between the difficulty, he cut a canal uniting Liver- after enormous expense, and years of Roman wall. the pool and Manchester which was comtwo masts, the foremast rigged like a brig's, the main tion, and by the two schemes, for a also hermaphrodite brig. a clergy-