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Meridian (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Lauderdale co., Miss., on the Queen and Crescent Route, the Southern, and the Mobile and Ohio railroads; 90 miles E. of Jackson. It contains Meridian MERMAIDS of time over the old method with the instruments.

MÉRIMÉE, PROSPER (mā-rē-mā'), a French author; born in Paris, France, Sept. 28, 1803. He studied law, but never practiced; was senator in 1853.

His best known works were the two the Corsican vendetta; and "Carmen" novels, "Colomba" (1830), treating of (1840), which furnished the plot of Bibesides: "Plays of Clara Gazul" (1825); toric and Literary Medleys' (1843); "Hiszet's opera of the same name. He wrote collection of comedies in the style of the a collection of Illyrian lyrics; "Mateo Spanish "intermezzo"; "Guzla" (1827), Falconne," a novel; "Letters to an Una collection of Illyrian lyrics; "Mateo known"" ("Letters à Une Inconnue": 1873); etc. He died in Cannes, France, Sept. 23, 1870.

MERINO (me-rēnō), a Spanish breed of the domestic sheep. It is extremely important commercially, on account of the excellence of its wool, which is closeset, soft, spirally twisted, and short. A fine French woolen material is made from the wool of the merino sheep.