ell,
_Encyklopadisches Handbuch des Blindenwesens_ (Vienna, 1899).
(F. J. C.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] There are no late returns for Iceland, but the last available
statistics gave 3400 per million. A paper written in 1903 on
blindness in Egypt stated that 1 in every 50 of the population was
blind.

[2] Previous returns from Finland have shown a much larger number of
blind persons, but these statistics were supplied by the British
consul in St Petersburg from the last census.

[3] Its principal (responsible, with Dr Armitage, the duke of
Westminster and others, for its foundation) was Sir F.J. Campbell,
LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., himself a blind man, who, born in Tennessee,
U.S.A., in 1832, and educated at the Nashville school, and afterwards
in music at Leipzig and Berlin, had from 1858 to 1869 been associated
with Dr Howe at the Perkins Institution, Boston. He was knighted in
1909.

BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833- ), American merchant and politician,
was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, on the 26th of January 1833. He
was educated in his native city and in New Orleans, where he early
entered his step-father's counting-house. Returning to Massachusetts in
1849, he became a clerk and subsequently a junior partner in a prominent
Boston commercial house. Later he removed to New York City to establish
a branch of the firm. In 1881 he organized and became president of
Bliss, Fabyan & Company, one of the largest wholesale dry-goods houses
in the country. A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was
one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American
Protective Tariff League. In politics an active Republican, he was
chairman of the Republican state committee in 1887 and 1888, and
contributed much to the success of the Harrison ticket in New York in
the latter year. He was treasurer of the Republican national committee
from 1892 to 1904, and was secretary of the interior in President
McKinley's cabinet from 1897 to 1899.

BLISTER (a word found in many forms in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger.
_Blase_; it is ultimately connected with the same root as in "blow," cf.
"bladder"), a small vesicle filled with serous fluid raised on the skin
by a burn, by rubbing on a hard surface, as on the hand in rowing, or by
other injury; the term is also used of a similar condition of the skin
caused artificially, as a counter-irritant in cases of i