These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Burleson, Burlesque, Burlingame.
ALBERT SIDNEY, born at San Marcos, Tex., in 1863. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1884 and in the following year was admitted to the bar. After serving as attorney of the 26th Judicial District of Texas from 1891 to 1898, he was elected to the 56th Congress in 1899. He was again elected in 1903 and was reelected to the 63d Congress. He resigned to become Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of President Wilson in 1913.
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HUGH LATIMER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Northfield, Minn., in 1865. He graduated from Racine College in 1887 and afterward studied at the General Theological Seminary. He served as rector in several churches until 1900, when he was appointed dean of the Cathedral of the District of North Dakota. He served as secretary of the Board of Missions for the Protestant Episcopal Church from 1909 to 1916. In the latter year he was consecrated bishop of South Dakota. He wrote "The Conquest of the Continent" (1911); and "Our Church and Our Country" (1918).
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a low form of the comic, arising generally from a ludicrous mixture of things high and low. High thoughts, for instance, are clothed in low expressions, noble subjects described in a familiar manner, or vice The true comic shows us an inversa. structive, if laughable, side of things; the burlesque iravesties and caricatures them in order to excite laughter or ridicule.
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EDWARD LIVER- MORE, an American editor, born in Boston, May 30, 1848. He studied at Harvard and acted as private secretary to his father, Anson Burlingame, United States Minister to China. Since 1879, he has been associated with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, and, from 1886 to 1914, was editor of "Scribner's Magazine."
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ANSON, an American diplomatist, born in New Berlin, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1822. He was elected a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, . He and afterward of Congress was sent as United States Minister to the Chinese Government in 1861. On his retirement from this post, in 1867, he was requested by the Regent, Prince Kung, go on a special mission for the Chito nese Government to some foreign courts. He died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 23, 1870:
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a city and port of entry in Burlington co., N. J., on the Delaware river and the Pennsylvania railroad; 18 miles N. E. of Philadelphia. It contains St. Mary's Church, endowed by Queen Anne; St. Mary's Hall, the oldest (Protestant) church school for girls in the country; the State Masonic Home; Van Rensselaer Seminary; Burlington Academy, and many fine old residences; and has manufactories of shoes, stoves, iron pipe, terra cotta, and canned goods. The city was settled in 1677, by Friends, under the name of New Beverly; was for many years the seat of government of West Jersey; and was the residence of the last Colonial Governor, William Franklin. It was bombarded by the British, in 1776, and was incorporated in 1784. Pop. (1910) 8,336; (1920) 9,049.
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a city of Iowa, the It is on county-seat of Des Moines co. the Mississippi river, and on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, the Chi- Island, and Pacific, and the cago, Rock ock Toledo, Peoria, and Western railroads. It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of crackers, pearl buttons, agricultural implements, boilers, engines, etc. The machine and repair Burlington, and shops of the Chicago, go, Quincy railroad are here. The city has an opera house, a court house, hospitals, a pu public library, and a handsome park. 57 Pop. (1910) 24,324; (1920) 24,057.
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city, port of entry and county-seat of Chittenden co., Vt.; on Lake Champlain, the head of the New York Barge Canal, and the Central Vermont and Rutland railroads; 40 miles N. W. of Montpelier. It has a very large lake commerce and manufactories of lumber, cotton and woolen goods, and iron. The environment is agricultural. The city is the seat of the State University of Vermont and of the State Agricultural and Medical Colleges; Bishop Hopkins Hall; the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic); the Fletcher, University, Billings and Burlington Law Libraries; a County Court House; United States Government Men's Christian Building, and a Young Association Hall. ing Burlington is noted for its benevolent and educational institutions, which include the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Home for Aged Women, Home for Friendless Women, Home for Destitute Children, Adams Mission House, Louisa Howard Mission, Providence Orphan Asylum, Cancer Relief Association, Lake View Retreat, several sanitariums, the Vermont Episcopal Institute, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Academies (Roman Catholic), and high and graded schools. The city was settled in 1773; was a garrisoned post during the War of 1812; and was incorporated in 1865. Its material development has been largely due to its great lumbering industries. The famous Col. Ethan Allen is buried beneath a handsome monument in Greenmount Cemetery. Pop. (1910) 20,468; (1920) 22,779.
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FREDERICK GUSTA- VUS, an English descriptive writer, born in Bedford, March 3, 1842. He served in the Royal Horse Guards, in which he became lieutenant-colonel in 1881. In 1875 he made his famous ride to Khiva -a journey that presented great difficulties. In 1876 he rode through Asiatic Turkey and Persia. Of both these journeys he published narratives. He was slain in the battle of Abu-Klea, Jan. 17, 1885.
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the English name poterium, a genus of plants belonging to the order roseaceæ (roseworts). It is also called salad burnet and lesser burnet. The common or garden salad burnet (poterium sanguisorba) is a herbaceous plant one or two feet high, with pinnate leaves and dull purplish flowers. The leaves taste and smell like cucumber, and are eaten in salad. The muricated burnet, b or salad burnet (A. muricatum), has larger fruit than the former, to which it is closely allied. It is not common. There are other species. The great burnet is sanguisorba officinalis.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) FRANCES HODGSON, an Anglo-American novelist, born in Manchester, England, Nov. 24, 1849. Her in 1865. to Tennessee She early wrote stories. In 1873 Miss family removed Hodgson married Dr. Burnett, and, in 1875, settled in Washington, where she has since resided. After various short stories, she published as a serial in "Scribner's Magazine" "That Lass o' Lowrie's," which became very popular, was promptly issued in book form ( ), and was dramatized. It was followed by a number of novels, among 1877 which are "Haworth's" (1879); "Louisiana" (1881); "Esmeralda," "A Fair Barbarian" (1882); "Through One_Administration" (1883); "Little Lord Fauntleroy," a juvenile story, also dramatized (1887); "The Pretty Sister of José" (1889); "The One I Knew Best of All," an autobiography (1893); "A Lady of Quality" (1895); "His Grace (1897); "I. Tembarom" of Osmonde" de" (1913); "The Lost Prince" (1915); "White People" (1917); etc. In 1898 she obtained a divorce from Dr. Burnett, and in 1900 married Stephen Townsend.
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