BOKOUGH 121 EOSNA-SEBAI Boron is obtained by fusing boric tri- oxide BjO^ with sodium. It is a taste- less, inodorous, brown powder, a non- conductor of electricity; it is slightly soluble in water, permanent in the air; burnt in chlorine gas it forms boron chloride BCU, a volatile, fusing liquid, boiling at 18.23, sp. gr. 1.35; it is de- composed by water into boric acid and hydrochloric acid. BOROUGH, originally a fortified town. In England, a corporate town or town- ship; a town with a properly organized municipal government. If it sends a rep- resentative or representatives to Parlia- ment it is a parliamentary borough, if not, it is only a municipal borough. The qualifications for voters in both classes of boroughs are the same. In all bor- oughs a mayor is chosen annually, and a certain number of aldermen and coun- cilors periodically, the burgesses or voters electing the councilors, and the councilors electing the mayor and alder- men. Mayor, aldermen, and councilors form the council. In the United States, an incorporated town or village, or divi- sion of a large city. Under a ruling of the United States Board on Geographic Names, this word, when forming a part of a place word, is now abbreviated to boro, as Hillsboro. BOBROMEAN ISLANDS, a group of four small islands on the W. side of Lago Maggiore, noi'thern Italy. They are sit- uated in the W. arm of the lake, and are named after the ancient family of Borromeo. Vitaliano, Count Borromeo, about 1671, caused soil to be carried to them, built terraces, and converted them into beautiful gardens. The two most celebrated are Isola Bella and Isola Madre. _ On the W. side of Isola Bella, which rises above the water in 10 suc- cessive terraces, stands a palace of the Borromeo family, containing many ad- mirable paintings and other works of art. Isola Madre is laid out in the same terraced style, and is crowned by a now dilapidated palace. The Isola de' Pesca- tori is inhabited by about 200 fishermen. BORROMEO, CARLO, COUNT, a cele- brated Roman Catholic saint and cardi- nal, born at Arona, on Lago Maggiore, in 1538. In 1560 he was successively ap- pointed by his uncle, Pius IV., apostolical prothonotary, refendary, cardinal, and Archbishop of Milan. The reopening and the results of the Council of Trent, so ad- vantageous to the papal authority, were chiefly effected by the great influence of Borromeo, which was felt during the whole sitting of the council. He improved the discipline of the clergy, founded schools, libraries, hospitals, and was in- defatigable in doing good. He died in Milan, in 1584. Immediately after his death miracles were said to be wrought at his tomb, and his canonization took place in 1610. His nephew, Count Federigo Borromeo, also cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, equally distin- guished for the sanctity of his life and the benevolence of his character, was born at Milan in 1564, and died in 1631. He is celebrated as the founder of the Ambrosian Library, BORROW, GEORGE, an English phi- lologist, born in East Dereham, Norfolk, February, 1803. His linguistic talents are shown in "Targum; or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages" (St. Petersburg, 1835), and "Romano La- vo-Lil, or Word Book of the Romany" (1874). The other chief of his works are "The Zincali, or Gypsies of Spain" (Lon- don, 1841) ; "The Bible in Spain" (1843) ; "Lavengro" (1861) ; "The Romany Rye," its sequel (1857) ; "Wild Wales" (1862) ; and "Dictionary of the Gypsy Language" (1874). He died in Oulton, Suffolk, July 30, 1881. BORSIPPA, a very ancient city of Babylonia, the site of which is marked by the ruins Birs Nimrud. BOSCH BOK, the bush buck, a name given to several South African species of antelope. BOSCH VARK, the bush hog or bush pig of South Africa (choiropotdrmts afri- cdmLs), one of the swine family, about 5 feet long, and with very large and strong tusks. The Kaffirs esteem its flesh as a luxury, and its tusks as personal ornaments. BOSCOBEL, a locality in Shropshire, England, remarkable histoi'ically as the hiding place of Charles II. for some days after the battle of Worcester, Sept. 3, 1651. At one time he was compelled to conceal himself among the branches of an oak in Boscobel Wood. The royal oak, which now stands at Boscobel, is said to have grown from an acorn of this very tree. BOSHER, KATE LANGLEY,an Amer- ican novelist; born in Norfolk, Va., in 1865. She wrote in a humorous vein and with an appeal to wholesome sentiment that has won great popularity for her work. Her publications include "Mary Gary" (1910); "Miss Gibbie Gault" (1911) ; "The Man in Lonely Land" (1912) ; and "The House of Happiness" (1913). BOSNA-SERAI, or SARAJEVO, the capital of the province of Bosnia, on the
