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Memphis (City and county-seat of Shelby)

a city and county-seat of Shelby co., Tenn.; on the Mississippi river and many important railroads. It contains a custom house, cotton exchange, merchants' exchange, the Cossitt Public Library, University School, Christian Brothers' College, the Memphis Hospital Medical College, St. Mary's School, Memphis Institute, Leath High School, Higbee School, the Le Moyne School, and the electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks, a steel railroad bridge across the Mississippi, built at a cost of $3,000,000, and opened in 1892, several ferries, National, State, and savings banks, and many daily, weekly, and other periodicals. The city is one of the largest trade centers for cotton in the Hannibal Medical College. There are United States. The total value of the receipts of cotton in 1919 was $77,509,347, and the value of the export of cotton and cotton-seed products was $42,000,000. It has also large manufacturing interests, including cotton-seed oil, flour, grist, and planing mills, foundries and machine shops, carriage and wagon works, brick and tile plants, tobacco factories, etc.

The assessed value of real estate in 1919 was $96,921,590, of personal property $13,195,297. The tax rate was $17.50 per $1,000. The cost of maintaining the government was $4,211,617. There were 22,- 261 pupils in the public schools, and the expenditures for education were $738,- 960. In 1862 a naval battle was fought here, resulting in victory for the Union vessels, and the city was occupied by the National authorities till the close of the war. Pop. (1910) 131,105; (1920) 162,- 351.

MENAHEM (men'.-), the 16th King of Israel, previously general of the army of Zachariah. He reigned in Samaria 10 years, 771-760 B. c., and was a tyrannical and cruel idolater. MENAM (mā-näm'), the chief river of Siam, rising in the Laos country, and flowing generally S. to enter the Gulf of Siam below Bangkok; length, about 900 miles.

MENDELSSOHN MENANDER (-nan'dur), one of the most celebrated of the Greek comic poets; born in Athens in 342 B. C. He composed 108 comedies; but there are only a few fragments remaining of them.

Menander was the disciple of Theophrastus, and, like him, excelled in the delineation of character. He was also the friend of Epicurus, whose philosophy he adopted.

He is said to have drowned himself 291 B. C. on account of the success of his rival Philemon.