Bloody Mary

an epithet popularly applied to Mary, Queen of Eng- Jand, on account of the persecutions of the Protestants during her reign. | Bloomer, Amelia Ja an American reformer, born in omer, N. Y., May 27, 1818; died in 1894. She will be remembered because of her adoption of a costume of a ehort skirt and Turkish trousers, Bloom field, a town in E ex county, N. J.; on the Morris canal, several railroads, and a trolley line connecting it with all nearby cities; 10 miles N. W. of New York city; founded in 1685; is the seat of a German theological seminary and of a noted mountainside hospital; manufactures organs, hats, shoes, rubber goods, electric elevators, and paper; and is the residence of many New York busine men. Pop. (1910) 15,070. | Bloom field, Maurice, an American educator, born in Bielitz, Austria, Feb. 238, 1855; came to the United States in 1857; became an A ociate in Johns Hopkins University in 1881; and subsequently Profe or of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology there. | Blooming ton, city and capital of McLean county, Ill.; on several railroads; 60 miles N. E. of Springfield; is the seat of the Illinois Weslapasl University, of a Reman Catholic college, and of the general offices of the Chicago & Alton railroad; and nearby are the State Normal University_and the State Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, The city has important manufactures, is in a rich corn and oat section, and has large interests in raising cattle, swine, and fine horses. Pop. (1910) 25,768.