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It is said to be the largest bell in England. Biela (bē'lä), Wilhelm von. Born at Ro lau, Germany, March 19, 1782: died at Venice, Feb. 18, 1856. An Austrian military officer, noted for the discovery of a comet, named for him, Feb. 27, 1826, at Josephstadt, Bohemia. IMG:content-0195.png:[blocks in formation] Bilaspur (be-läs-pör'). A feudatory state in the Panjab, British India. Area, 448 square miles. Population (1891), 91,760. first being defective. Walford , Old and New London. Bilaspur. A district in the Chattisgarh diviBig Bethel (big beth'el). A village in eastern sion, Central Provinces, British India. Area, Virginia, 10 miles northwest of Fortre Monroe. 8,341 square miles. Population (1891), 1,164, Here, June 10, 1861, the Federals (2,500) under General 158. Peirce were defeated by the Confederates (1,800) under Bilat. See Belit . Magruder. Big Black. A river of western Mi i ippi 5 miles. Population (1890), commune, 15,860. 1863. Ru ia, in lat. 49° 45′ N., long. 30° 8′ E. It has an extensive commerce. Bielefeld (bē'le-feld). A city in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, in lat. 52° 1' N., long. 8° 28′ E. It is the center of the Westphalian linen manufacture. Population (1890), 39,950. Bieleff (bya'lef). A town in the government of Tula, Ru ia, in lat. 53° 50′ N., long. 36° 10′ Ε. Population, 9,869. Bielgorod (byāl'gō-rod). 'gō-rod). ['White City.'] A town in the government of Kursk, Ru ia, situ ated on the Donetz in lat. 50° 36′ N., 36° 37′ E. Population, 22,957. N., long. Bielitz (bē'lits). A town in Silesia, Austria Hungary, in lat. 49° 50′ N., long. 19° 3′ Ε. It manufactures engines, woolens, etc. Population (1891), 14,573. Biella (bē-el'lä). A town in the province of Novara, Italy, 39 miles northeast of Turin. It has a cathedral. Population, 11,000. Bielinski (byā-lēn'skē), or Belinski. Born 1815: died at St. Petersburg, 1848. A Ru ian critic and journalist. He became editor of the "Observer," which ceased to appear in 1839, and was one patrthe principal contributors to the "Annales de la Bielostok (byā'lō-stok), Pol. Bialystok (byä'lüstok). A town in the government of Grodno, Ru ia, in lat. 53° 10′ N., long. 23° 10′ E. Pop IMG:content-0196.png:[blocks in formation] Bigelow (big'e-lō), John. Born at Malden, New York, Nov. 25, 1817. An American author, journalist, and diplomatist. He was an editor and one of the proprietors of the New York "Evening Post" 1850-61; consul at Paris 1861-65; and minister to France 1865-66. He edited Franklin's autobiography 1868, and has published "Jamaica in 1850, etc.," "Life of Frémont" (1856), "Les États-Unis d'Amérique en 1863," a monograph on "Molinos the Quietist" (1882). He has edited a life of William Cullen Bryant, the speeches of Samuel J. Tilden, and the works of Benjamin Franklin. Big-endians (big-en'di-anz), The. A religious sect (intended for the Catholic party), in Swift's "Lilliput,' t," who considered it a matter of duty to break egg-shells at the big end. They were considered heretics by the Little-endians (the Protestants), who broke their egg-shells in an orthodox manner at the little end. Big Horn. A river of Wyoming and southern Montana which joins the Yellow stone in lat. 46° 13' N., long. 107° 26′ W. Length, about 450 miles. The upper part is called Wind River. Big Horn Mountains. A range of the Rocky Mountains in central and northern Wyoming, extending northward into Montana. Highest points, about 12,000 feet. Biglow Papers, The. A series of humorous political poems, with explanatory introductions, written by James Ru ell Lowell in the New England dialect. Many of them were signed Hosea chiefly to slavery and the Mexican war: and 1867, relating Biglow. They were published in two series (1848, chiefly to the Civil War and reconstruction). Bilbao (bil-bä'ō), Francisco. Born at Santiago, Chile, Jan. 9, 1823: died at Buenos Ayres, Feb. 19, 1865. A Spanish-American journalist and propagandist. Banished from Chile in 1845, he went to Paris where he took part in the revolution of 1848; returning, he was a leader in the disturbances of 1851, and fled to Peru and thence to Ecuador and Buenos Ayres. His death was as due to exposure incurred while saving a drowning woman. Bilbao. A seaport, capital of the province of Vizcaya, Spain, situated on the Nervion in lat. 43° 14′ N., long. 2° 56′ W. It has a thriving trade, and was formerly noted for the manufacture of rapiers called by its name. It was held by the French 1808-13, and was unsucce fully besieged by the Car lists 1835-36(twice) and 1874. Population (1887), 50,772. Bilboa. See Bayes . Bildad (bil'dad). One of the three friends of Job. He is called the "Shuhite," from a territory iden- tified by some with the Sakaia of Ptolemy, to the east of Batanes, by others with Suhu of the cuneiform in scrip tions, situated on the Euphrates south of Carchemish. Bilderdijk (bil'der-dik), Willem. Born at Amsterdam, Sept. 7, 1755: died at Haarlem, Holland, Dec. 18, 1831. A Dutch poet, grammarian, and critic. His works include "Buitenleven" (1803), "De ziekte der geleerden" (1807), "De Mensch" (1808), "De on der gang der eerste wereld" (1820). Bilfinger (bil'fing-er), or Bülffinger (bül'finger), Georg Bernhard. Born at Cannstatt, Würtemberg, Jan. 23, 1693: died at Stuttgart, Feb. 18, 1750. A German philosopher of the Wolfian school, and mathematician. He was profe or of theology at Tübingen and privy councilor in Stuttgart. Author of "Dilucidationes de Deo, anima hu etc." (1725). Bilguer (bil gwer), Paul Rudolf von. Born at Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sept. 21, 1815: died at Berlin, Sept. 10, 1840. A lieutenant in the Pru ian army, noted as a che player. He wrote "Handbuch des Schach spiels" (1843), etc. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Bilin Bilin (bēʻlin). The language of the Bogos. Bilin (bi-len'). A manufacturing town and watering-place in Bohemia, situated on the Biela 42 miles northwest of Prague. Population (1890), commune, 6,651. diplomatist Bilioso (bil-i-ō'sō). An amusing diplomatist in Marston's play "The Malcontent." Billaud-Varenne (bē-yō'vä-ren'), Jean Nicolas. Born at La Rochelle, France, April 23, 1756: died at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 3, 1819. A French Revolutionist, member of the Convention and of the Committee of Public Safety. He was deported to Guiana in 1816, came to New York, and then went to Haiti. Billaut (bē-yō'), Adam. A French poet, 16021662, most familiarly known as Maître or Master Adam. Bille (bil'e), Steen Andersen. Born Aug. 22, 1751: died at Copenhagen, April 15, 1833. A Danish admiral and minister of state, distinguished in an attack on Tripoli in 1798, and in the battle of Copenhagen in 1807. Bille, Steen Andersen. Born at Copenhagen, Dec. 5, 1797: died there, May 7, 1883. A Danish admiral and minister of marine, son of Steen Andersen Bille. He took part in an expedition to South America in 1840, and commanded a scientific ex IMG:content-0198.png:[blocks in formation]