Miri

See Mirim. Miriam (mir'i-am). [See Mary .] A Hebrew prophete , sister of Moses and Aaron. She is represented as giving a response to the song of Moses sung by the Israeli tes at the Red Sea. Miriam. In Hawthorne's "Marble Faun," a woman of warm and pa ionate nature and mysterious origin and powers. She sanctions the crime which Donatello commits, and in so doing binds herself to him. See Donatello . Mirim (mē-rēn'), Lake. A lake on the boundary of Uruguay and the province of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Length, about 115 miles. Also Miri . Miropolie (mē-rō-pol'ye). A town in the government of Kursk, Ru ia, situated on the Psiol 82 miles north-northwest of Kharkoff. Population, 3,289. Mirror for Magistrates, The. A compilation of poems undertaken by William Baldwin with aid from George Ferrers and others. It was begun and partly printed in 1555, but was stopped by the lord chancellor, Stephen Gardiner. In 1559 it was licensed and first i ued. It then contained 19 metrical tragedies, or biographies, of men in high place who had come to violent ends, and was an English sequel to Lydgate's "Falls of Princes" from Boccaccio. It has been justly said to connect the work of Lydgate with that of Spenser. It was re published in 1563, 1574, 1578, and 1587, each time with additions. The "Induction" and "Complaint of Bucking ham," which were contributed by Thomas Sackville, Lord Buck hurst, to the edition of 1559, not published till 1563, outweigh all the rest in value. Mirror for Magistrates, The Aldee published in October, 1579, what [Anthony] Munday may well have regarded as his first piece of substantial work, a religious companion to "The Mirror for Magistrates," called "The Mirrour of Mutabilitie; or, principal part of the Mirrour of Magistrates, selected out of the sacred scriptures." Mirrors were in fashion. There was a "Theatre or Mirror of the World," in 1569; a "Mirror of Madne ," in 1576; a "Mirror of Modestie" [by Thomas Colter] had been licensed to Edward White in April, 1579; there was afterwards a "Mirror of Mirth," in 1583 [a "Mirror of Modestie" was published by Robert Greene, 1584]; a Mirror of Man's Miseries," in 1584; a "Mirror of Magnanimity," in 1599; a "Mirror of Martyrs," in 1601; with more of the kind. Mathematics, Politics, and the Latin Tongue were shown also in "Mirrors." "The Mirrourof Mutabilitie" was a series of metrical tragedies in two parts. Morley, English Writers, IX. 155. Mirror of Knighthood, The. A translation of the Spanish romance Cavallero del Febo or Phebo" ("the Knight of the Sun"), containing the adventures of the Donzel del Phebo, the fair Linda brides, etc. It belongs to the A mad is cycle of romances. Mirror of Modesty, The. A pamphlet by Robert Greene, published in 1584. It tells the story of Susanna and the elders. Mirror of the World, The. See the extract. There was also, upon a hundred leaves of folio, "The Mirrour of the World," translated and printed in the year 1481, with wood-engravings. It was a book translated from a Latin "Speculum vel Imago Mundi" in 1245, for the Duke of Berry, into French verse, which was afterwards turned by a Maistre Go ouin-unle that be only the name of a copyist-into French prosene From that prose Brice, of the Mercers' Company, citizen alderman of London, and, like Caxton, a Kentish man, who wished for the book as a present to Lord Hastings. Paxton made his translation in the ran Morley, English Writers, VI. 314. Mirs Bay (mērz bā). A bay on the southeastern coast of China, now included in the British colony of Hong-Kong. Mirza. See Vision of Mirza . Mirzam m (mér-zäm'). [Ar. al- mirzam , the roar third-magnitude star β ẞ Canis Ma er.] jor is, in the paw of the animal. The Arabs gave the same name to three other stars: ẞ Canis Minor is and a and y Or i on is. Mirzapur (mēr-zä-pör'). 1. A district in the Northwest Provinces, British India, intersected by lat. 25° N., N., long. 82° 40′ E. Area, 5,223 square miles. Population (1891), 1,161,508. 2. The capital of the district of Mirzapur, situated on the Ganges 31 miles west-southwest of Benares. It was long noted for its cotton trade. Population (1891), 84,130. Mirza-Schaffy (mēr zä-shäf-fe'). An Oriental to extend it by logical conclusions and analo- gies. The word Mishnah properly means 'repetition,' then 'instruction,' 'learning. It was not at first allowable that these discourses should be reduced to writing: they had to be learned by heart, and are called the oral law as ginning of the Mishnah goes back to the time of the Mac- cabees. It was delivered in the schools orally from gen- eration to generation. At the end of the 2d century A. D. the patriarch Judah I. collected, arranged, and codified the accumulated material in its present shape. The numer. ous rules and decisions are arranged according to subject in 6 orders ( sedarim ): (1) seeds ( zeraim ), on agriculture; (2) festivals (moed); (3) women ( nashim ), on connubial Mi ouri sacrifices ( kodashim ); (6) purifications ( tahoroth ). The orders are divided into 63 tracts, and these again into chapters. The explanations of or comments on the Mishnah are called Gemara , and both together constitute the Talmud (which see). Misiones, Pg. Mi i ones (me-se-ō'nes). A territory form tory forming the extreme northeastern part of the Argentine Republic, between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. An easterly extension, called Up per or Brazilian Misiones, held by Brazil, was claimed by the Argentine government. In 1894 the claim was submitted to the arbitration of the President of the United States, and was decided in favor of Brazil. Misiones was included in the region called Guayra (which see); was occupied by flourishing Jesuit mi ions from 1633 to 1767; and is said to have had a population of 130,000. Area, 22,000 square miles. Population, about 25,000 (?); of Upper Misiones, 5,000. Misisaga (mis-e-sägä). A tribe of North American Indians, once a part of the Ojibwa, first known in the middle of the 17th century north of Lake Huron and on Manoulin Island. After the flight of the Huron and Ottawa they spread over southern Ontario. In 1746 they were admitted as the seventh tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy. The name is translated 'great mouth, referring to the mouth of Mi is saugh River emptying into Lake Huron. Their present (1893) number in Ontario is 774. See Algonquian . Misivri (mē-sēv'rē). A small town in Eastern Rumelia, Bulgaria, situated on the Black Sea 18 miles northeast of Burgas: the ancient Me sembria. It was a Greek colony. Miskolcz (mish'kõlts). The capital of the county of Borsod, Hungary, situated in lat. 48° 6' N., long. 20° 49′ E. It has flourishing commerce. Population (1890), 30,408. Misnia (mis'ni-ä). The Latin name of Mei en. Misocco (me-zok kō), or Mesocco (mā-zok'kō), Valle, G. Misox (mē'zoks). The valley of the Moësa in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland, south of San Bernard i no. Length, about 20 miles. Misogonus (mi-sog'ō-nus). A rimed play, presumably by Thomas Richards in 1560. It con poet who was the teacher and friend of Fried rich and has some changes meter, but is mainly four-lined stanzas. See "Gammer Gurton's Needle" and Bodenstedt during his residence in Tiflis. The "Ralph Roister Doister." "Songs of Mirza-Schaffy," published by Bodenstedt in 1851, of cotton. It has 75 counties, sends 2 senators and 8 representatives to Congre , and has10 electoral votes. The region was visited by De Soto in 1540; the Mi i ippi River was explored by Marquette and La Salle; an attempt at settlement was made by the French under Iberville at Biloxi in 1699; and a settlement was made on the site of Natchez in 1716. The territory was ceded by France to Great Britain in 1763, part was ceded to the United States in 1783, and the remainder was acquired in 1811. Mi is was organized in 1798, and the State was sippi Territory w admitted to the Union in 1817. It seceded Jan. 9, 1861; was the scene of various conflicts in the Civil War, including the siege of Vicksburg in 1863; and was readmitted Feb., 1870. Area, 46,810 square miles. Population (1900), 1,551,270. Mi i ippi Scheme, or Mi i ippi Bubble. A speculative scheme formed under the lead of John Law for paying off the national debt of France. It resulted in a financial panic in 1720. See Law , John. Mi i ippi Sound. A part of the Gulf of Mexico lying south of Mi i ippi, and partly in closed by a chain of islands. Mi i ippi Valley. The region drained by the Mi i ippi and its affluents, lying in general between the Alleghanies on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west. The basin includes the whole of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mi ouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kentucky, and Tenne ee; portions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, and Mi i ippi; and small parts of New York, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, New Mexico, and British America, Mi Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg. A poem by Thomas Hood, which, "as a sustained piece of metrical humor, is absolutely unique.” The poem is full of rollicking, unhampered fancy; long as it is, the movement is so rapid that it almost seems to have been written at a heat, - at least, can easily be read at a sitting. Though not without those absurd lapses which constantly irritate us in the perusal of Hood's lighter pieces, it is the most lusty and characteristic of them all. Standing at the front of its author's facetious verse, it renders him the leading poet-humorist of his generation. Stedman , Victorian Poets, p. 80. Mis so long hi (mis-so-long'ge), or Me so long hi (mā-so-long'gē), mod. Gr. Me so long i on (mā in spirit imagery. They became, still are, extraordinarily popular. See Bodenstedt. 130° 12′ E. Mispah. See Mizpah . edy by Molière, produced in 1666. This play is an almost inexhaustible source of allusions, quotations, proverbial sayings, etc. Its principal interest lies in the development of various pairs of opposing characters in even their lightest shades. It is the ideal of cla ic comedy. Here Molière's special vein of satire was worked most deeply and to most profit, though the reproach that the handling is somewhat too serious for comedy is not un deserved. Alceste the impatient but not cynical hero, Célimène the coquette, Oronte the fop, Eliante the reasonable woman, Arsinoé the mischief-maker, are all im. mortal types. Saints bury , French Lit., p. 310. Mischabelhörner (mē-shä-bel-hèr'ner). Spurs of Monte Rosa, in the Swi Alps. They are the Dom (14,940 feet) and the Täschhorn (14,757 feet). Miseno (mē-sā'nō), Cape. A promontory at the northwestern entrance to the Bay of Naples. It was the ancient Misenum, or Promontorium Misenum; and near it there was a city Misenum. Misenus (mi-sēʻnus). In Roman legend, a companion of Æneas. Miser, The. 1. A comedy by Thomas Shad well (1671), founded on Molière's "L'Avare." -2. A comedy by Fielding (1733), from the same source. Misérables, Les (lā mē-zā-räbl′). [F., 'The Unfortunates.] A novel by Victor Hugo, in five parts: "Fantine," "Cosette," "Marius," "L'Idylle rue Plumet," and "Jean Valjean." It was published in 1862. Misfortunes of Arthur, The. A tragedy written principally by Thomas Hughes, produced in 1587 before Queen Elizabeth. Eight members of the Society of Gray's Inn coöperated with him, and the "triumphs" and dumb-show were devised principally by Bacon. Mishnah (mish'nä). A collection of rabbinical discu ions on the law of Moses, the object of which was to apply and adapt it to the varying circumstances of life and of the times, and Haywood, published in 1751. "Mi Betsy Thoughtle " is rather a clever work and interesting as the first really domestic novel, according to modern ideas, that exists the language. It has supposed that Mi Burney took it as the model of her "Evelina," and it is the only novel I know which could have served for the purpose. Forsyth , Novels and Novelists of the 18th Century, p. 204. Mi in her Teens, or the Medley of Lovers. A comedy by David Garrick, produced in 1747 with Garrick as Fribble. Mi innippi (mis-i-nip'i). A name given in part of its course to the Church ill River. Mi ionary Ridge (mish'on-ā-ri rij). A mountain on the border of Georgia and Tenne ee, southeast of Chattanooga. It was the scene of the final struggle in the battle of Chattanooga, Nov. 25, 1863. The ridge was occupied by the Confederates in a strongly intrenched position. The Federals attacked them in three divisions under Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman, and after a long hand-to-hand fight succeeded in putting them to flight. Mi i ones. See Misiones . Mi i ippi (mis-i-sip'i). [Ind., 'the great river' or the father of waters.'] The largest river of North America. It rises in or near Lake Itasca, northern Minnesota, about lat. 47° 13' N., 1,457 feet above sea-level; traverses part of Minnesota; forms the boundary between Minnesota, Iowa, Mi ouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana on the west and Wisconsin, Illinois, Ken tucky, Tenne ee, and Mi i ippi on the east; flows gener ally south; and empties in Louisiana into the Gulf of Mex ico by 5 mouths about lat. 29°-29° 10' N. It is navigable for steamboats to the Falls of St. Anthony, Minnesota (about 2,000 miles). The banks below the river-level in Mi i ippi and Louisiana have to be protected by levees. The chief tributaries are the Minnesota, Des Moines, Mi ouri, St. Francis, White River, Arkansas, and Red River from the west, and the Wisconsin, Rock, Illinois, Ohio, and Yazoo from the east. It was discovered by De Soto in 1541; Marquette and Joliet descended it in 1673, and La Salle in 1681; it formed the western boundary of the United States 1783-1803; and its source was discovered by Schoolcraft in 1832. St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dubuque, St. Louis, Mem A carn an i a and Ætolia, Greece, situated on the Gulf of Patras in lat. 38° 22′ N., long. 21° 25′ E. It was succe fully defended by the Greeks against the Turks in 1822 and 1823, and was besieged and taken by the Turks and Egyptians in 1825-26. Byron died there in 1824. Population (1889), 9,476. Mi oula (mi-zölä). A river in western Montana which unites with the Flathead to form Clarke's Fork. Its chief head streams are the Bitter Root, Deer Lodge, and Black foot rivers. Mi ouri (mi-zö'ri). A tribe of the Teiwere division of the Siouan stock of North American Indians. Their name for themselves is Niut'atci , 'those who reached the mouth (of the river): called Nicudje by the Kansa, which appellation may have been corrupted into Mi ouri. For many years they have been consolidated with the Oto. The population of the two tribes is given as 358. See Tciwere . Mi ouri. [See above.] A river in the United States, the largest tributary of the Mi i ippi. It is formed by the junction near Gall at in, Montana, of the Madison (which rises in the National Park) with the Jefferson; flows through Montana and the Dakotas; forms in part the boundary between Nebraska and Kansas on the right and South Dakota, Iowa, and Mi ouri on the left; traverses Mi ouri; and unites with the Mi i ippi 17 miles north of St. Louis. It pa es in Montana through the gorge "Gates of the Rocky Mountains," below which are the Great Falls. Bismarck, Yankton, Sioux City, Omaha, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, At chis on, Leaven worth, and Kansas City are on its banks. Length (including the Madison), 3,047 miles; navigable to Fort Benton (over 2,400 miles). For the total length of the stream to the sea, see Mi i ippi . Mi ouri. A central State of the United States of America, extending from about lat. 36° to 40° 30′ N., and from long. 89° 2' to 95° 44′ W. Capital, Jefferson City; chief city, St. Louis. It is bounded by Iowa on the north, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tenne ee on the east (separated from all three by the Mi i ippi), Arkansas on the south, and Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska on the west (separated in part from Kansas and Nebraska by the Mi ouri). The surface is hilly, undulating, and partly prairie; the Ozark Mountains (low) are in the southwest. The State is rich in mineral wealth, especially iron (at Iron Mountain, Pilot Knob, Shepherd Mountain, all in the southeast), coal, and lead. The leading agricultural products are corn, wheat, tobacco, Mi ouri oats. The State is one of the first in the raising of live stock and in the production of wine and corn, and has important meat-packing industries, manufactures of tour, iron, etc., and flourishing domestic and foreign commerce. It has 115 counties, sends 2 senators and 16 representatives to Congre , and has 18 electoral votes. The Territory was claimed by France in virtue of exploration; was first settled at St. Genevieve by the French about 1755; was ceded to Spain in 1763; was ceded back to France in 1800; formed part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803; and was included in Louisiana Territory in 1805. Mi ouri Territory was formed in 1812, and Mi ouri was admitted to the Union as a slave State in 1821. Martial law was proclaimed there in 1861. It was the scene of several battles in the Civil War. Area, 69,415 square miles. Population (1900), 3,106,665. Mi ouri, Great Falls of the. A cataract in the Mi ouri River, in Montana, above Fort Ben ton. Width, mile. Height, 92 feet. Mi ouri Compromise. An agreement relative to the extension of slavery, embodied in a bill pa ed by March 2, 1820, and in Con greg admitting Mi ouri into the Union, pa ed in 1821. It enacted all territory beded by France, wanted that in aththe 36° 30' north lat., excepting Mi ouri, slavery should be forever prohibited; and on this conce ion by the proslavery party in Congre , Mi ouri was admitted as a slave State. It was abrogated by the pa age of the Kan sas-Nebraska Bill in 1854.