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Mosul (Formerly important town Tigris)

a formerly important town Tigris, opposite the ruins of ancient are filled with the manufactures of the a very prosperous city (muslin takes West, and almost the only export is gall nuts, from the Kurdish mountains. Mosul was formerly the metropolis of the Mesoname from this town); now its bazars ians (the Nest potamian Christians e Nestorians, the Jacobites, etc.), Catholic Chris- United Chaldæans, the Jacobites, and still contains many Cat tians. The town, which existed in 636, and still contains many Catholic Chris- United Chaldæans, the Jacobites, etc.), enjoyed its greatest prosperity in the 9th century, and onward, till the desolating by the Turks; since then Mosul has Egyptian army, October, 1918. Pop. inroads of the Mongols in the 12th. Then about 80,000. came the Seljuks; and they were followed steadily declined. Captured by Anglomusician; born at Breslau in 1854, he toured when about 20 the principal European cities as pianist, living for the about 80,000. his work as a composer and his Spanish Among the miscellaneous works p dances won him a world-wide fame. most part in Berlin and Paris. His suecess at the piano was later eclipsed by poem; "Boabdil"; and the incidental by him: "Jeanne d'Arc," a symphonic produced music to Grabbe's "Don Juan" and "Faust" are the most notable. point instead of ous and beautiful division of lepidopterous insects (Heterocera), readily distinguished from butterflies by their antennæ terminating in a knob, by their wings