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* BLOOMFIELD. 194 BLOUNT. Berlin and Leipzig, 1879-81. On his return to America in ISSl he received an associate profes- sorship in Johns Hopkins, and afterwards the full professorial chair of Sanskrit and compara- tive philologj-. which he holds in that university. In 189G Princeton bestowed the LL.D.degreeupon him. He is an e.vtensive contributor to the Ori- ental journals and philological periodicals: and his researches in connection with the Atharva- 'cda are especially important. Mention may be made of his edition of the Kaiifika-Sutra, Xew Haven, 1890 (American Oriental Society's Jour- nal, Vol. Xr'.) : Hymns of the Atharva-Veda Translated, Oxford, 1897 (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XLII.) ; The Athana-Veda, Strass- burg, 1899 (Biihler's Grundriss der indo-arischen J'hilologie) ; The Kasmirian Atharra-Veda, re- production of the ntanuscript by rhromolithog- raphy (Baltimore, 1901); and he is publishing a Vedic Concordance (to appear in the Harvard Oriental Series). BLOOMFIELD, Robert (1766-1823). An English pastoral poet. He was bom at Uoning- ton, Suffolk, December 3, 17C0, and was the son of a poor tailor, who died, leaving Rob- ert an infant. His mother with difficulty sub- sisted by teaching a school, where Bloomfield learned to read. At the age of 11 he was hired to a farmer, but ultimately became a shoemaker in London, where in a poor garret he wrote his Farmer's Boy. It was published in 1800, had extraordinary popularity, and was translated into a number of languages. He subsequently published Rural Talcs, Wild Flowers, and other pieces. Though elTorts were made for him by persons of rank, his health broke down, and he died, nearlv insane, at ShefTord, in Bedfordshire, August 19," 1823. Consult Weston, TTorAs (Lon- don, 1824) ; Hart. Selections from Correspond- ence (London, 18701. BLOOMFIELD-ZEISLER, bloom'feld-tsis'ler, r.XNy (1866 — ). An American pianist, born in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, July 10, 1866. In 1SC8 her parents came to America, settling in Chicago. At the age of si., before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. In 1877 Mme. Essipofl, then on tour in the United States, heard her play, and advised that she become a pupil of Leschetizky, which she did the following year, remaining with him until 1883. After successful appeariances abroad she returned to America, where she has played with the principal orchestras. She also has given many recitals and has made several brilliantly successful foreign tours, playing in the summer of 1896 at Cologne at the Lower Rhme Music Festival. She is one of the foremost livmg pianist-s. BLOOM'INGTON. A city and the county- seat of McLean County. 111., 126 miles south- west of Chicago; on the Illinois Central, the Chica"o and Alton, the Lake Erie and Western, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and Samt Louis railroads (Map: Illinois. D 3). It con- tains the construction and repair shops of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and has extensive coal-mining, pork-packing, fruit-canning, and etove-manufacturing interests, besides flour-miUs, foundries, furnaces, and brickyards. The city is the seat of the Illinois Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal), founded in 1852; and at Normal, two miles north, is the Illinois State Normal University. Bloomington has several parks, a marble court-house, a fine city hall, and a public library of over 22,000 volumes. There is also a soldiers' orphans' home at Normal. Settled in 1831, Bloomington was chartered as a city in 18.50 and in 1900 celebrated, with appro- priate ceremonies, the semicentennial ot its in- corporation. Under the charter of 1897, now in effect, the city is governed by a mayor elected for two years, and a city council. . heads of de- partments, excepting that of the school board, are selected by the mayor with the concurrence of the council. Town meetings are convened an- nually to levy road, bridge, and town taxes. The city owns and operates its waterworks and elec- tric-light plant. Population, in 1890. 20484; in 1900, 23,286. BLOOMINGTON. A city and the county- seat of Monroe County, Ind., 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis: on the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad (Map: Indiana. C 3). It is the seat of the Indiana State University (q.v. ). The city has vast quarrying interests, principally of limestone, and manufactures of furniture, hubs and spokes, leather, etc. It was settled about 1818. The government, under a general State law, is administered by a mayor, elected everv four vears. and a municipal council. Population," in 189*0, 4018; in 1900, 6400. BLOOMS'BTJRG. A town and county-seat of Columbia Cnunly, Pa., 40 miles southwest of Wilkesbarre; on the Susquehanna River, the Pennsylvania Canal, and the Lackawanna, the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Bloomsburg and Sullivan railroads (Map: Pennsylvania, E 2). It is the seat of a State normal school, and has fine county and town buildings. The city is in a region which produces iron, and con- tains, among its industrial establishments, iron furnaces and foundries ; car works : flour, wool- en, silk, and lumber mills: carriage, furniture, desk, and carpet factories, brass-works, etc. Pop- uialiou. in ISOO, 463.'): in IHOO, 6170. BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON, A. The title of a tragedy by Robert Browning (1843), played by Lawrence Barrett in America. It is based upon the fatal consequences of a childish passion, uselessly concealed. BLOUET, bloo'ft'. Pact.. See O'Reli., Max. BLOUNT, blunt, SiK Frederick. A lisping character in Bulwer's play. Money. He pays non- chalant addresses to Georgiana Vesey and her £10,000. BLOUNT, Harby ('Unnurtured Blount'). The iisv in Scott's poem .larmion. BLOUNT, Wii.i.iAM (1744-1800), An Ameri- can politician, born in Bertie County, N. C. He was a member of the North Carolina Legislature for several terms after 1780. of the Continental Congress in 1783-84, and again in 1786-87. and of tlie Constitutional Convention of 1787. In 1790 he was appointed by Washington to Ik> (Jov- ernor of "The Territory of the United States South of the Ohio" (including the present Ten- nessee), and soon afterwards founded the city of Knoxville, When Tennessee was admitted to the L^nion, in 1796, Blount was elected to the United States Senate from that State; but in July, 1797. he was detected in a conspiracy to wrest New' Orleans and the Floridas from the Span- iards on behalf of Great Britain, and was sum- marily expelled on a charge of "high misde-