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See We its pekan. Mitau (mē'tou), Lett. Jelgava (yel'ga-vä), Ru . Mitava (me-tävä). The capital of the government of Courland, Ru ia, on the Aa 25 miles southwest of Riga. It was the residence of the dukes of Courland from the middle of the 16th century. Population (1892), 30,528. Mitchel (mich'el), John. Born at Dungiven, County Derry, Ireland, Nov. 3, 1815: died March 20, 1875. An Irish revolutionist, a leader in the "Young Ireland" movement. He was convicted as editor of the "United Irish man" and sentenced to 14 years' banishment in 1848; escaped from Van Diemen's Land and came to New York in 1854; and lived in the United States until 1874, when he returned to Ireland and in 1875 was elected to Parliament for Tipperary, but was declared ineligible. He wrote "Jail Journal" (1854), "The Last Conquest of Ireland - Perhaps" (1861), etc. Mitchel, Ormsby McKnight. Born in Union County, Ky., Aug. 28, 1810: died at Beaufort, S. C., Oct. 30, 1862. An American astronomer and general. He became director of the Cincinnati Observatory in 1845, and of the Dudley Observatory (Albany) in 1859, and served in the Civil War 1861-62. He wrote "Planetary and Stellar Worlds" (1848), "Orbs of Heaven" (1851), etc. Mitchell, Donald Grant: pseudonym Ik Marvel. Born at Norwich, Conn., April, 1822. An American e ayist and novelist. He graduated at Yale in 1841; studied law in New York; was consul at Venice 1853-55; and has since lived on his estate Edge wood, near New Haven, Connecticut. He has written "Reveries of a Bachelor" (1850), "Dream Life" (1851), "My Farm of Edge wood" (1863), "Seven Stories with Basement and Attic" (1864), "Wet Days at Edge wood, etc." (1864), "Rural Studies, etc." (1867), a novel "Doctor Johns, etc.' (1866), "Bound Together, etc." (1884), of Out-of-Town Places," a reprint of "Rural Studies" (1884), "English Lands, etc." (1889-90), etc. Mitchell, Elisha. Born at Washington, Conn., Aug. 19, 1793: died in the Black Mountains, N. C., June 27, 1857. An American chemist, surveyor, and clergyman, noted for exploration of the mountains of North Carolina. Mitchell, Mrs. (Lucy Myers Wright). Born at Urumiah, Persia, 1845: died at Berlin, Germany, March 10, 1888. An American archæ ologist. She married Samuel S. Mitchell, an artist, in 1867, and pa ed most of her life abroad. She wrote "A History of Ancient Sculpture" (1883). Mitchell, Maria. Born at Nantucket, Ma ., Aug. 1, 1818: died at Lynn, Ma ., June 28, 1889. An American astronomer, daughter of William Mitchell (1791-1868): profe or of as tronomy at Va ar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1865. She received the degree of LL.D. from Dart mouth in 1852 and Columbia in 1887; was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and was a member of various scientific a ocia tions. Mitchell, Mount. The highest mountain in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, situated in the Black Mountains, Yancey Coun It is ty, North Carolina. Height, 6,710 feet. called the Black Dome. named from Profe or Elisha Mitchell, who perished while exploring the mountain in 1857. Mitchell, Silas Weir. Born at Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1829. An American physician and author, noted for researches in toxicology, the nervous system, etc. He has edited "Five E ays: On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious Fevers, etc." (1858), and has written "Researches upon the Venom of the Rattlesnake" (1860), "Researches upon the Venoms of Poisonous Serpents" with E. T. Reichert (1886), and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked" (1871), "Injuries of the Nerves, etc." (1873), "Fat and Blood" (1877), "Hephzibah Guinne , and Other Stories" (1880), "Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, etc." (1881), "In War Time," a novel (1885), Poems (1882 and 1887), "Doctor and Patient" (1887), "Characteristics" (serially, 1891), etc. Mitchell, Sir Thomas Living stone. Born in Stir lings hire, Scotland, June 16, 1792: died at Carthona, Darling Point, Australia, Oct. 5, 1855. A British explorer in Australia. At sixteen years of age he entered the Peninsular army, and was promoted lieutenant Sept. 16, 1813, and major Aug. 29, 1826. In 1828 he was appointed surveyor-general to the colony of New South Wales. He is best known from his four expeditions into the interior of Australia, 1831-35 and 1836-45. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel in 1841. He published "Three Expeditions" (1838), "Journal" of his fourth expedition (1848), "The Lusiad of Camoens closely translated" (1854), etc. Mitch els town (mich'elz-toun). A town in County Cork, Ireland. It was the scene of a riot between the Home Rulers and police, Sept. 9, 1887. Mitchill (mich'il), Samuel Latham. Born at North Hempstead, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1764: died at New York, Sept. 7, 1831. An American physician, naturalist, politician, and miscellaneous writer. He founded, with Dr. Edward Miller and Dr. Elihu H. Smith, the "New York Medical Repository," and was its chief editor. IMG:content-0689.png:[blocks in formation] Mitre Mitford, William. Born at London, Feb. 10, 1744: died at Exbury, Feb. 10, 1827. An English historian. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1761, but left without a degree. He entered the