Mentz

See Mainz. 'wild rice men,' from their staple food, translated by the French to "Folles Avoines," by which the tribe is known in Menu. See Manu . early literature. They number about 1,300 at Green Bay Menza (men'zä). See Tigre . agency, Wisconsin. See Algonquian . Menon (me'non). [Gr. Μένων.] Killed about 399 в. с. A The alian mercenary, one of the leading generals in the expedition of Cyrus the younger. Menorca. See Minorca . Menou (me-nö'), Baron Jacques François de. Born at Bou ay, Touraine, 1750: died at Venice, Aug. 13, 1810. A French general. He became commander of the army in Egypt in 1800, and was defeated at Alexandria March 21, 1801, by the English under Abercromby. Mensh i koff (men's he-kof), Prince Alexander Danilovitch. Born at Moscow, Nov. 16, 1672: died at Berezoff, Siberia, 1729 or 1730. A Ru ian general and minister of state. He was of obscure origin, became a page at the court of Peter the Great, served with distinction against the Swedes, and in 1704 was promoted general. At the instance of Peter the Great he was also appointed a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. On the death of Peter in 1725 he caused the empre dowager to be proclaimed empre under the title of Cath arine I. She died in 1727, leaving him regent for her grandson Peter II. He was about to marry his daughter Mary to the emperor when the latter revolted against his domination, and exiled him to Siberia in 1727. Mensh i koff, Prince Alexander Sergevitch. Born Sept. 11, 1787: died May 2, 1869. A Ru ian general, diplomatist, and politician, great grandson of Alexander Danilovitch Mensh i koff. He served in the Napoleonic, Persian, and Turkish wars, and was commander of the Ru ian naval and military forces in the Crimea 1854-55. He was defeated at the Alma and at Inkerman in 1854. Mentana (men-tänä). A small town in the province of Rome, Rome, Italy, 13 miles northeast of Rome. Here, Nov. 3, 1867, the Italian insurgents under Garibaldi, after gaining an advantage over the papal forces, were defeated by the French troops sent to the relief of Pius IX. The former lost about 1,000 killed and wounded, IMG:content-0768.png:[blocks in formation] Menteith. A thane of Scotland, a minor char acter, in Shakspere's "Macbeth." Mentel (men'tel), Johann. A German printer of Strasburg in the 15th century. He was connected in busine with Gutenberg after the latter's quarrel with Fust. After his death the claim that he was the inventor of printing was, without ground, made for him by his grandson. The claim that Mentel was the inventor of typography was first made in 1520 by John Schott, son of Martin Schott, who had married Mentel's daughter and inherited his busine . In the year 1521 Jerome Gebweiler, misled by the a ertions of Schott, undertook to controvert the pretensions of Fust and Schoeffer as the first printers. He writes that printing was practised in Strasburg by John Mentel, who had obtained the new art of chalcography, or of making books with tin pens (types), about the year 1447; that Mentel, and Eggestein, his partner, made an agreement that they should keep secret the new art; that John Schott, whom he praises, showed him a manuscript book, without date, written by Mentel, in which were drawings of typographic instruments, and observations on the manufacture of printing-ink. It was by similar methods that John Schott induced James Spiegel to declare, in a book printed in 1531, that John Mentel invented printing in Strasburg in the year 1444.