Burns, John

born at Vauxhall, London, Eng., 1858. A "Labour" member of the British Parliament, and the recognized head of the labor movement in official circles. First imbibed socialistic ideas from a French refugee from Paris, a "Communard" who was his fellow-workman in an engineering shop; was elected to Parliament from Batter sea, London, in 1892 and again in 1895; and thrice elected member of the London County Council. Burnuggur ( boor -noog'goor), a commercial town of India, prov. Gujerat, in the Guicowar's Dominions, 52 m. N. of Ahmedabad. Burton ( bürtün ), RICHARD FRANCIS, an eminent English traveller and explorer, born in Norfolk, 1821. After serving many years in the Anglo-Indian army, during which he acquired both a wonderful knowledge of the Eastern languages and peculiar skill in the imitation of Oriental traits and manners, he explored Central Arabia in the disguise of a hadji or pilgrim, and next pa ed over into Africa, where he traversed the Somanly country and other regions before untrod by Europe ans, and in company with Capt. Speke, discovered the great lake of Tanganyika in 1856. In 1860 he visited Utah and gave the world the first reliable account of the Mormon capital. In the year following he proceeded on a mi ion to the king of Dahomey, and later made extensive explorations in interior Brazil and in Iceland. In 1872 he succeeded the novelist Charles Lever as British Consul at Trieste. His principal works include Personal Nar rative of a Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca (1855); First Footsteps in East Africa (1856); The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860); The City of the Saints (1861); The Nile Basin (1864); A Mi ion to Gelele, King of Dahomey, with Notices of the so-called Amazons (1864); Abeokuta , and the Came roons Mountains (1865); and The Highlands of Brazil (1869). His literal translation of the Arabian Nights is his most important work. D. in Trieste, Oct. 20, 1890. Busa (bu's ah). A narcotic used by the inhabitants of Central Asia. It is prepared by the Kirghises by rubbing millet to a pulp with water, and, after diluting this with still more water, and occasionally with mare's milk, the mixture is poured into a large stone jar, tightly corked, and buried in the soil. It is left for ten days and after being taken up the fluid is transferred to gla bottles, which, after being corked, are left standing a few days, when they are ready for sale. A large amount of carbonic acid is formed in these bottles, which escapes when they are uncorked. The taste is tart and spirituous, and is offensive before one is accustomed to it, owing to the presence of fusel oils. This drink is very popular, but rather intoxicating, and its use has been forbidden by the Ru ian military authorities.