Brisbane
the capital, a seaport and chief seat of trade of Queensland, Australia, situated about 500 miles N. value of the Bridgewater canal estate is stands about 25 miles from the mouth of a river of its own name, which falls into Moreton Bay, and it is divided into the four divisions of North Brisbane, South Ala., Nov. 10, 1847. He studied at the Brooklyn Art School and National possesses broad and handsome streets, res, and some fine buildings, among the chief of which are the Houses of Legislature, of Design 1891, Chairman American Art Department, Paris Exposition 1900, Queensland National Bank. It is the seat of an Anglican and of a Roman Catholic bishop.
There are some 50 churches, the chief being the two cathedrals; and several daily and weekly newspapers are published. The export trade, which is large, includes gold, wool, cotton, sugar, tallow, and hides; and the imports, most of the articles in use among a thriving community. Regular steam communication is kept up with the other Australian ports, as well as with London (11,295 miles), and there is an In 1839 Dr. Howe, of Boston, under- even learned to sew and to knit a little. of the river. took her care and education at the deaf and dumb school. The first attempt was ernor of New South Wales. In 1836 the town comprised the houses of the comto read embossed letters by touch; next, thoughts with others. Then she learned embossed words were attached to differ- BRISSOT the convict settlement was broken up.
In 1842, the colony was opened to free settlers. The Brisbane river rises in BRIEF Bremer and other rivers before its entrance into Moreton Bay, below the town of Brisbane. The Victoria lattice girder bridge (1,080 feet long), connecting North and South Brisbane, was destroyed by a flood, in 1 1893, which laid half of South Brisbane in ruins. hand, and to read with great dexterity. learned to write a fair, legible, square can editor; born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1864. His education was a public school ing or riding rein, completing the head BRIDLE, a head stall, bit, and bearyears in France and Germany. He entered upon a newspaper career as a reporter for the New York "Sun." Later he became editor of the "Evening Sun," from which he went to a similar posiand the bit. Sometimes, also, there are came editor of the New York "Evening Journal" and the brilliancy of his editorial writing soon made him a national figure. bridle. Such bits are seen in Assyrian and are subsequently mentioned by and Egyptian paintings and sculptures, When her country was taken by the Greeks, she fell to the share of Achilles under three heads: Snaffles, curb bits, non afterward took possession of her, mouth, and has rings at the end for the rein. It sometimes has cheek pieces to at Troy. This incident Homer makes one of the chief features of his "Iliad." sists of the following parts: Cheek a French politician and journalist, born in Bourges, July 31, 1835. He entered the Chamber of Deputies, in 1871, and ing the cheek pieces and forming the bit proper; sometimes a bar uniting the offenders. He became one of the foremost members of the Radical party. He was elected President of the Chamber, in 1881, and became premier in 1885. He was re-elected to the Presidency of the Chamber in 1894, and, in 1895, he retired from the ministry and was a conspicuous candidate for the Presidency of France. In 1898 he again accepted the ments of various rocks. It contains sists of sand and bluish clay, with fragmollusks, of which four species are exin 1906. was President of the House of Deputies BRISSOT (brē-sō'), JEAN PIERRE Arctic shells. It appears to have been French political writer, born in 1754. In 1780, he published his "Théories des Lois Criminelles," and two years later "Biba brief or short statement or summary, the Revolution he made himself known case which the solicitor draws up for party. Brissot, like most of his party, from the Superior Courts. A Papal also mean, in law, an order emanating BRISTED