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Briggs (FRANK OBADIAH American Senator)

FRANK OBADIAH, American Senator; born at Concord, N. H., Aug. 12, 1851. He was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1872, becoming second lieutenant in the Second Regiment of infantry. In 1877 he resigned from the army and settled in Trenton, N. J., joining the John A.

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In 1899 he was chosen mayor of Trenton, in 1901 became a member of the State Board of Education, and in 1902 State Treasurer.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1907, but was defeated in 1912. He died in the following year. to read embossed letters by touch; next, embossed words were attached to differ- St. John's College, BRIGHT Cambridge. In 1592 he was appointed reader of the Physic Lecture founded by Dr. Linacre, and in 1596 first reader in geometry at a year or two more she was able to reand in 1619 first Savilian Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. He made letters from all parts of the world. She of logarithms, of which he constructed invaluable tables, containing an improvement which was adopted by Napier the inventor. He ing or riding rein, completing the head BRIDLE, a head stall, bit, and bearpublished his "Logarithmorum Chilias thousand natural gear of a horse's harness. The modplaces. He was also the author of a tract on the "Northwest Passage to the South Seas," by way of and the bit. Sometimes, also, there are strap, the throat latch or lash, the rein, of many years Virginia and Hudson Bay (1622), and of unwearied application . His system adopted. He next employed himself on of logarithms is that now commonly a table of logarithms of bridle. Such bits are seen in Assyrian and Egyptian paintings and sculptures, and to 15 places, which, with a table of natural Xenophon. Bridle bits may be classed land, in 1631, and published in London secants, was printed at Gouda, in Holin 1633, under the joined together in the middle of the " He died in Oxford, Jan. 26, 1631. mouth of the animal. The curb bit con- keep the ring from pulling into the Line and the Southern Pacific railroads.

Elder co. It is on the Oregon Short It is the center of an important fruit are canning and cement factories, plangrowing and agricultural region. There ing mills, and lumber yards. The city has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) chain covered by closely coiled wire be- chain. The elastic bit consists of a man, son of Jacob Bright, a Quaker cot- BRIGHT, JOHN, an English stateston spinner and manufacturer at Roch- Nov. 16, 1811. When the Anti-Corn dale, Lancashire, born in Lancashire, Law League was formed in 1839 he was mollusks, of which four species are exone of its leading members, and, with free-trade agitation. He was incessant, ment, in his opposition to the Corn both at public meetings and in Parlia- Laws, until they were Arctic shells. It appears to have been In 1845 he obtained the appointment of Game Laws, and also one on the suba select committee of the House on the ject of cotton cultivation in India. A member of the Peace Society, he strenuously opposed the war case which the solicitor draws up for the instruction of counsel. A brief may from the Superior Courts. A Papal also mean, in law, an order emanating nounced the Crimean War. Elected in motion against the second reading of the Conspiracy Bill, which led to the over- 1.

BRIGHT throw of Lord Palmerston's government. Though he only once held office -as president of the Board of Trade in 1868 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster-he is credited with having exercised a greater influence upon the conduct of public affairs in England and abroad than, perhaps, any other man.

He was the greatest English orator of modern times. He died in London, March 27, 1889.