Bombay (Presidency and one)
a presidency and one of the eight great provinces of British India: between lat. 14° and 29° N., and long. 66° and 77° E. It includes Bombay, Tind and Aden. Area, 123,059 square miles. Pop. about 19,672,642, and the native states, area, 63,864 square miles, pop. about 7,411,676. The city of Bombay has a population of about 1,000,000. The southern portions are well supplied with moisture, but a great part of Sind is the most arid portion of India. The climate varies, being unhealthful in the capital, Bombay, and its vicinity, but at other places, such as Poonah, very favorable to Europeans. The chief productions of the soil are cotton, rice, millet, wheat, barley, dates, and the cocoa palm. The manufactures are cotton, silk, leather, etc. The great export is cotton. The administration is in the hands of a governor and council. The chief source of revenue is the land, which is largely held on the ryotwar system. Like Bengal and Madras, the presidency has its own army.
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Bombon
a large, fresh water lake in Luzon, Philippine Islands, about 50 miles S. of Manila. It is 105 square miles in area. There is a small island in the center, from which rises the volcano of Taal, the lowest in the world, its height being only 850 feet. The waters of the lake find an outlet to the sea through the Pansipit river.
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Bombyx
the genus of moths to which the silk worm moth (B. mori) belongs.
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Bona Fides
literally, good faith; honesty, as distinguished from mala fides (bad faith). The law requires all persons in their transactions to act with good faith; and a contract, when the parties have not acted bona fide, is void at the pleasure of the innocent party. BONAPARTE (pronounced in Italian in four syllables; in French and English in three), the the name of a famous family, which was spelt Buonaparte by the Emperor Napoleon and his father till 1796. As the name of Bonaparte occurs in Corsica as early as the 10th century, it is probable that the island may have been their original home. In the 16th century mention is again found of the Bonapartes in Corsica, where in Ajaccio they occupied a respectable position as a patrician or leading family. In the 18th century this family was represented by three male descendants, all residing at Ajaccio; the archdeacon, LUCIEN BONAPARTE; his brother, NAPO- LEON BONAPARTE; and his nephew, CHARLES.
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Bona Vista
a bay, cape, and town on the E. coast of Newfoundland. The town is a port of entry, and one of the oldest settlements in the island.
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Bonaparte
Napoleon. See Napoleon
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Bonaparte
CHARLES JOSEPH, American jurist; born in Baltimore, June 9, 1851. He is the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia; a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1871, and of its law school three years later. Since 1874 he has been engaged in the practice of the law in Baltimore, where he soon became prominent in all movements for reform in the affairs of city, State, and nation. He served as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners from 1902 to 1904, and was Republican Presidential elector and chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League during the latter year. From 1891 to 1901 he was an overseer of Haryard University. In 1904 he became a trustee of the Catholic University at Washington, and in May, 1905, entered the Cabinet of President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy, and was made Attorney-General the following year; serv- (5) Jerome, King of Westphalia, died 1860. Prince Napoleon, died 1891. 1 leon III.), Victor. Louis Marie. 1850-1870; died 1873. 1 Napoleon Louis (Prince Imperial, died 1879. Prince Humbert. ing until 1909. He was a member of many learned societies , and in 1917 was made a member of advisory board of the Council of National Defense.
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Bonar
HORATIUS, a celebrated Scotch hymnist, born in Edinburgh , Dec. 19, 1808; wrote "Hymns of Faith and Hope," many of which have been taken into the hymnals of most of the Protestant Churches . He also wrote more than 20 volumes on theological and religious subjects. He died July 31, 1889 .
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Bonaventura
ST., an Italian friar of the Order of St. Francis, born in Tuscany in 1221. He was sent by his superiors to Paris, where he, as well as Thomas Aquinas, of the Dominican Order, became involved in contentions with the university , which denied the academical honors to individuals of the mendicant orders. It was not till 1257 that he received his doctor's degree. He had already been elected General of his Order. He retired to the convent of Mt. Alvernia in Tuscany, where he wrote "Vita Santi Francisco," and "Itinerarium mentis in Deum," for which last he received the appellation of the "S Doctor." He died July 15, 1274, from sheer ascetic exhaustion . Dante, who wrote shortly afterward , places him among the saints of his "Paradiso." In 1482, he was formally canonized by Sixtus IV., and in 1587 was ranked by Sixtus V. as the 6th of the great doctors of the Church. "Seraphic
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Bond (Masonry a stone or brick)
in masonry, a stone or brick which is laid with its length across a wall, or extends through the facing course into that behind, so as to bind the facing to the backing. Such stones are known also as binders, bond stone, binding stones, through stones, perpent stones and headers. In brick laying, a bond is a particular mode of disposing bricks in a wall so as to tie and break joint. The English bond has courses of headers alternating with courses of stretchers. In the Flemish bond each course has stretchers and headers alternating.
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Bond (Written acknowledgment)
a written acknowledgment or binding of a debt under seal. The person who gives the bond is called the obligor , and he to whom it is given the obligee. A bond is called single when it does not con tain a penalty, and an obligation when it does. If two or more persons bind themselves in a bond jointly and se severally, the obligee may sue them jointly or single out any one of the number he pleases to sue; but if they are bound jointly, and not severally, he must sue them jointly or not at all. Bonds of an immoral character are void at law.
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