Bourne
RANDOLPH SILLIMAN, American author; born in Bloomfield, N. J., in 1886. He studied at Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1913. He pursued studies in London and to Paris, 1913-1914, and on his return the United States became a member of the editorial staff of "New Republic" and the "Dial," besides contributing to other magazines. He was an exponent of the radical school of thought and an able publiand forceful writer. Among his cations were "Youth and Life" (1913); "Edu- "The Gary Schools" (1916); and cation and Living" (1917). He died in 1918. DE FAUVELET BOURRIENNE, (bör-yen'), a French diplomatist, born with Bonain 1769, and educated along where a parte at the School of Brienne, them. close intimacy sprang up between to study Bourrienne went to Germany to law and languages, but, returning friendship Paris in 1792, renewed his obtained with Napoleon, from whom he , that various appointments, and, latterly Hamburg of minister pler plenipotentiary at . his being in- His character suffered from volved in several dishonorable monetary transactions, but he continued to fill high state offices, and, in 1814, was made preabdication of Nafect of police. On the XVIII. poleon he paid his court to Louis , and was nominated a Minister of State The Revolution of July, 1830, and the him of his loss of his wealth, deprived asylum in reason. He died in a lunatic 1834. His "Mémoires sur Napoléon, le Directoire, le Consulat, l'Empire et la . Restauration" are valuable
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Bourne (JONATHAN American Senator born)
JONATHAN, American Senator; born at New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 23, 1855. He was educated at Harvard, but left college to go to sea, was shipwrecked at Formosa, and, being rescued, was taken to Portland, Ore., where admitted he has since remained. He was to the bar in 1881, and, after practicing law for a year, became interested in mining and commercial undertakings. He is president of several corporations in Or- Cotton Mills, egon and of the Bourne elected Fall River, Mass. In 1885 he was to the State Legislature, and was a mem- Convenber of the Republican National was elected tion in 1888 and 1892. He term to the United States Senate for the of 1907-1913, but was defeated for reelection in the latter year.
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Bourru
A monkish apparition spoken of in many tales as that of an imaginary phantom which appears to the Parisians, walking the streets in the darkest hours of the night, and glancing in at the windows of timid folkpassing and re-passing a number of times. Nurses are wont to frighten their small charges with the Monk Bourru. The origin of the spectre is unknown.
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Boursa
the ancient Prusa, where the Kings of Bithynia usually resided, situated in Asiatic Turkey, at the foot of Mount Olympus, in Asia Minor, 13 miles S. of the Sea of Marmora. Broussa is pleasantly situated, facing a beautiful and luxuriant plain. It contains about 200 mosques, some of which are very fine buildings, also three Greek churches, an Armenian, and several synagogues. The population of Broussa is about 71,000.
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Bourse
an exchange where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for the transbusiness. It is used action of financial especially of the Stock Exchange of the great Paris. In In the United States exchange in Philadelphia is styled the Bourse.
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Boussa
or BUSSANG, a city of Africa, in the Sudan, on the Niger, 40' near where are rapids; about lat. 10° met N. It was here that Mungo Park his death in 1805. Pop. est. between 15,000 and 20,000.
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Boutwell
GEORGE SEWELL, an American statesman, born in Brookline, admitted to Mass., Jan. 23, 1818; was Legisthe bar in 1836; served in the State Governor of Masslature in 1842-1851; achusetts in 1851-1852; was an organparty in 1854; izer of the Republican the appointed the first commissioner of of Innewly established Department ternal Revenue in 1862; a Representative in Congress in 1863-1869; one of the managers of the impeachment trial of the President Johnson; Secretary of Treasury in 1869-1873; and a United States Senator in 1873-1879. Besides numerous speeches he published "Edu- ); cational Topics and and Institutions" (1859 several works concerning taxation, and "The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century" (1895). He died Feb. 28, 1905. 1,38 BOVIDÆ
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Bovide
a family of ruminating anmerely the oxen, imals, containing not in but many other animals now placed other families. It was subdivided into bovina, cervina, giraffina, moschina, and camelina; also, a family of ruminating animals, consisting of species with simply rounded horns, which are not twisted in sinuses. It contains the genera bos, bison, bubalus, etc. Ovibos (musk ox), genranked under bovidæ, is by some erally placed with the ovidæ. The oldest known are various species of bos, hemibos, and amphibos in the Upper Miocene of India. The genera bos and bison are found in the Pliocene.
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Bovillae
An ancient town in Latium at the foot of the Alban mountain, on the Appian Way , about ten miles from Rome. Near it Clodius was killed by Milo , B, C. 52. ennus. A general of the Galli Senones, who entered Italy, defeated the Romans, and marched into the city. The Romans fled into the Capitol, and left the city in possession of the enemy. The Gauls climbed the Tarpeian rock in the night, and would have taken the Capitol had not the Romans been awakened by the cackling of some geese, upon which they roused themselves and repelled the enemy.
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Boville (or Bovillus), Charles de
A Picard who died about 1553. He desired to establish in his work De sensu the opinion, anciently held, that the world is an animal,-an idea also imagined by Felix Nogaret. Others works by Boville are his Lettres, his Life of Raymond Lully, his Traite des douze nombres, and his Trois Dialogues sur l'Immortalitè de l'Ame, le Rèsurrection, et la Fin du Monde. Bowls, Magical (See Magic.) Brahan at Bergen-op-Zoom, in 1612. His Treatise on Dreams (Leyden 1639) is of great rarity.
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Bow (Music an appliance)
in music, an appliance with which the strings of certain musical instruments of the viol class are set in vibration. It consists of a number of long horse hairs stretched upon an elastic rod, which are tightened by a nut and screw. It was originally curved, whence its name. The old form is still seen in the rebeck or rebal of Algeria.
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