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Millimeter – Minnehaha

Millimeter

a French lineal meas. meter, or .03937 of an English inch.

MILLING. See FLOUR MILL.

Millsaps College

an educational vania, in Allegheny co. roads. It has important industrial iniron, saws, stones, and lumber. Pop.

Millvale

a borough of Pennsyl- Allegheny river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railterests, including the manufacture of ( 1910) 7,861; (1920) 8,031.

It is on the co., N. J.; on the Maurice river, and on

Milnes

RICHARD MONCKTON. See HOUGHTON, LORD.

MILO. See MELOS.

Milton College

a coeducational institution in Milton, Wis.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Seventh MILWAUKEE Day Adventists; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 118; students, 178; volumes in the library, 7,895; productive funds, $83,244; grounds and buildings valued at $31,000; income, $10,473; number of graduates, 280; president, Rev. W. C. Daland, A. M., D. D.

Mina

an ancient denomination of money among the Greeks, and was worth about $16.

Minaret

a slender lofty turret rising by different stages or stories, surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, commonly attached to mosques in Mohammedan countries, used by the priests to summon the people to prayers.

Minden

a town of Louisiana, the parish seat of Webster parish. It is on the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad. It is the center of an important cotton, corn, and sugar raising region. Its industries include saw mills, cottonseed oil mills and compresses. It has an excellent high school and three parks. Pop. (1910) 3,002; (1920) 6,105.

Mineral Production

UNITED STATES. The table which appears on pages 242-243 gives the production of metals and minerals in the United States for 1918, with estimates of production for 1919.

MINERVA

Minium

the red oxide of lead, often designated red lead and commonly used as a pigment for ordinary purposes.

Miniver

the Siberian squirrel, which has fine white fur; also the fur itself. is the Eu-

Minnehaha

FALLS OF, the name given to a beautiful cascade in the Minnehaha river near Minneapolis, Minn., the word Minnehaha meaning in the Indian language "Laughing Water." The cascade falls 60 feet into a most picturesque glen which opens on the Mississippi river. Longfellow has immortalized the name.

MINNEQUA SPRINGS (min'-), chalybeate sulphur waters in Bradford co., Pa.