Mannite
in chemistry, C6H2 (OH) 6. Mannitol, sugar of manna, sugar of mushrooms. A sugar very disseminated in the vegetable kingdom, occurring in the leaves of Ligustrum vulgare, in numerous bulbs, in fungi, in seaweeds, in the sap of the apple and cherry trees, limes, etc. It is most readily obtained from manna by treating it with boiling alcohol, filtering, and allowing the alcoholic solution to crystal- From alcohol it crystallizes in fine silky needles; from water in large transparent rhombic prisms. It has an intensely sweet taste, is soluble in cold water, very soluble in boiling water, but insoluble in ether. It melts between 160° miles S. E. of Mayence. The principal and 170°, and boils at 200°, distilling public buildings are the palace , contain- with very little decomposition. It may ing museums of antiquities, natural his- be prepared artificially from grape sugar tory, etc., and a library of 80,000 by the action of hydrogen. volumes; the observatory, a noble building, with a curious tower 108 feet in MANŒUVRES, or MANEUVERS, height, and the custom house; manufac- the movements and evolutions of any tures tinsel ware, carpets, linen, and silk goods, tobacco, ribbons, shawls, etc.
Its neighborhood produces hops and garden stuff in large quantities, and besides its traffic in cattle and agricultural products, it has a considerable transit trade by the Rhine and the Neckar. Pop. about 200,000. writer; born in MANNING, HENRY EDWARD, an English clergyman and wr Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808.
Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, in which he rose to be Archdeacon of Chichester (1840), he became a Roman Catholic priest in 1851; Archbishop of Westminster in 1865; cardinal in 1875. He founded the Roman Catholic University of Kensington in 1874. He was a friend of the laboring classes.
He wrote: "Unity of the Church" (1842); "Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost" (3d ed. 1877); "The Catholic Church and Modern Society" (1880); "The Eternal Priesthood" (1883); "Religio Viatoris" (A Traveler's Religion); etc. He died in Westminster, Jan. 14, 1892. large body of troops or fleet of ships, for the purpose of testing the efficiency of the various bodies of the service under the conditions of actual warfare, and for the purpose of instructing officers in tactics, and officers and men in their various duties.