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BUBLESON 246 BURLINGTON of France, to negotiate a treaty of peace with Spain. He was greatly instru- mental in the death of the Earl of Es- sex, was loaded with honors by James I., and created Earl of Salisbury. BURLESON, ALBERT SIDNEY, born at San Marcos, Tex., in 1863. He grad- uated from the University of Texas in 1884 and in the following year was ad- mitted to the bar. After serving as attorney of the 26th Judicial District of Texas from 1891 to 1898, he was elected to the 56th Congress in 1899. He was again elected in 1903 and was re- elected to the 63d Congress. He re- signed to become Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of President Wilson in 1913. BURLESON, HUGH LATIMER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Northfield, Minn., in 1865. He graduated from Racine College in 1887 and afterward studied at the General Theological Seminary. He served as rec- tor in several churches until 1900, when he was appointed dean of the Cathedral of the District of North Dakota. He served as secretary of the Board of Mis- sions for the Protestant Episcopal Church from 1909 to 1916. In the latter year he was consecrated bishop of South Dakota. He wrote "The Conquest of the Continent" (1911) ; and "Our Church and Our Country" (1918). BURLESQUE, a low form of the comic, arising generally from a ludicri us mixture of things high and low. High thoughts, for instance, are clothed in low exjpressions, noble subjects de- scribed in a familiar manner, or vice versa. The true comic shows us an in- structive, if laughable, side of things; the burlesque travesties and caricatures them in order to excite laughter or ridi- cule. BURLINGAME, ANSON, an Ameri- can diplomatist, born in New Berlin, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1822. He was elected a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, and afterward of Congress. He was sent as United States Minister to the Chinese Government in 1861. On his re- tirement from this post, in 1867, he was requested by the Regent, Prince Kun^, to go on a special mission for the Chi- nese Government to some foreign courts. He died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 23, 1870. BURLINGAME, EDWARD LIVER- MORE, an American editor, born in Boston, May 30, 1848. He studied at Harvard and acted as private secretary to his father, Anson Burlingame, United States Minister to China. Since 1879, he has been associated with the publish- ing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, and, from 1886 to 1914, was editor of "Scribner's Magazine." BURLINGTON, a city of Iowa, the county-seat of Des Moines co. It is on the Mississippi river, and on the Chi- cago, Burlington, and Quincy, the Chi- cago, Rock Island, and Pacific, and the Toledo, Peoria, and Western railroads. It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of crackers, pearl but- tons, agricultural implements, boilers, engines, etc. The machine and repair shops of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad are here. The city has an opera house, a court house, hospitals, a public library, and a handsome park. Pop. (1910) 24,324; (1920) 24,057. BURLINGTON, a city and port of entry in Burlington co., N. J., on the Delaware river and the Pennsylvania railroad; 18 miles N. E. of Philadelphia. It contains St. Mary's Church, endowed by Queen Anne; St. Mary's Hall, the oldest (Protestant) church school for girls in the country; the State Masonic Home; Van Rensselaer Seminary; Bur- lington Academy, and many fine old resi- dences; and has manufactories of shoes, stoves, iron pipe, terra cotta, and canned goods. The city was settled in 1677, by Friends, under the name of New Bev- erly; was for many years the seat of government of West Jersey; and was the residence of the last Colonial Gov- ernor, William Franklin. It was bom- barded by the British, in 1776, and was incorporated in 1784. Pop. (1910) 8,336; (1920) 9,049. BURLINGTON, city, port of entry and county-seat of Chittenden co., Vt. ; on Lake Champlain, the head of the New York Barge Canal, and the Central Ver- mont and Rutland railroads; 40 miles N. W. of Montpelier. It has a very large lake commerce and manufactories of lumber, cotton and woolen goods, and iron. The environment is agricultural. The city is the seat of the State Uni- versity of Vermont and of the State Ag- ricultural and Medical Colleg-es; Bishop Hopkins Hall ; the Cathedral of the Im- maculate Conception (Roman Catholic) ; the Fletcher, University, Billings and Burlington Law Libraries; a County Court House; United States Government Building, and a Young Men's Christian Association Hall. Burlington is noted for its benevolent and educational insti- tutions, which include the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Home for Aged Women, Home for Friendless Women, Home for Desti- tute Children, Adams Mission House, Louisa Howard Mission, Providence Or- phan Asylum, Cancer Relief Association, Lake View Retreat, several sanitariums.