Mountain
a large or very high hill; a large mass of earth rising to a great height above the level of the adjacent land; a high elevation or prominence âĞupon the earth's surface; a high mount. In geography, mountains usually exist in chains, the highest being the Himalayas. Parallel to a leading mountain chain there are in some cases two others of inferior elevation, one on each side. Sir Charles Lyell proved that every great mountain is the result, not of one upheaval, but of many. The composition of the different parts of a mountain regulates its form; trappean rocks, for instance, tending to make one or more table lands with precipitous sides, and granite a rounded top.
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Mounted Service School
military college at Fort Riley, Kan., consisting of schools of equitation, fa horseshoers, bakers and cooks. T courses number four for the first, two for the second, two for the third. Only the School of Equitation gives tuition to officers. The staff consists of a commandant, instructors, detachment, and student officers and enlisted men.
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Mountstephen
BARON GEORGE STEPHEN, born in Dufftown, Scotland, in 1829, son of William Stephen. hen. He went to Canada in 1850 and succeeded in the dry-goods business, and became successively director, vice-president, and president of the Bank of Montreal. He also turned his attention to railroad development, and co-operated in completing the Canadian Pacific railway, of which he was the head from 1881 till 1888. He was made a baronet in 1886 and a baron in 1891. In 1887 he gave $500,000 toward the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.
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Mouse
a popular name for the smaller species of the genus Mus, the larger ones being called rats. The common mouse is dusky-gray above, ashy underneath; the tail being about as long as the body. The field mouse, which is reddish-gray above, white underneath, is larger; and has the tail shorter than the body. The harvest mouse is very small, the body being colored above like a squirrel; beneath it is white, with a line between the colors. By shrew mouse is meant the common shrew, sorex vulgaris; the short-tailed field mouse is arvicola agrestis.
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Mouse Tower
a watch tower on a quartz rock in the Rhine River near Bingen. The date of the erection of this tower is not known certainly, but it is said by some authorities to have been built by Bishop Siegfried in the twelfth century as a tollhouse. An old tradition connects the tower with Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz, who lived some 200 years before the time of Siegfried. The story runs that Hatto was devoured by mice in this tower as a punishment for his cruelty in burning a barn filled with people whom he had caught stealing grain in time of famine. It is possible that the name Mouse Tower, Mausethurm in the German, is a corruption of Mauththurm, or toll tower, and that the legend arose from the fact that the duty collected on corn was especially unpopular. Another explanation of the name is that it came from the German word musen, to spy, the tower having been used as a watch tower. The story has been kept alive by Southey's ballad of Bishop Hatto.
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Mousing-hook, Mushet's Crucibles & Music-metal
Mousing-hook A hook with some contrivance for preventing the hook, ring, or link resting therein from slipping out. Mushet's Crucibles See CRUCIBLES. Music-metal Tin 65.8, antimony 8, copper 26, iron 3.2. The common alloy is tin 80, copper 20. See BRASS; COPPER; ALLOYS.
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Mouth
the cavity containing the organs of tas taste, mastication, and insalivation. In fortifications, the outer or widest part of an embrasure; the narrow part being the neck. Also the part of a trench most remote from the besieged place.
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Movement
A term usually applied to the mechanism of a watch or clock, independent of a case.
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Movement Box
A metal box with glass sides, for holding watch movements while timing, etc., before casing. In the Rockford box, shown in Fig. 239, stem wind movements can be wound without fingering or exposure to dust.
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Movement Cover
A glass shade to protect a movement, or portions of a movement from dust and from being lost while undergoing repairs. Fig. 240 illustrates an improved cover, with wooden base divided into compartments for the reception of the various parts, so they may be kept separate and readily picked out.
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Movement Holder
A metal frame, as shown in Fig. 241, having three adjustable arms for holding the movement by clamping on to the plate. It is useful in putting a watch together, as it rests upon the bench and leaves both hands free to work with and the plates are kept free from finger marks.
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Movement Rest
A wooden, bone or rubber shell, Fig. 242, similar to eye-glass frames, for holding movements while undergoing repairs, oiling, etc.
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Mowbray
HENRY SIDDONS, a painter. Born of English parentage in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1858, he was brought to the United States when a year old, and when 19 went to Paris to He at first engaged in study painting. portrait painting, but later devoted himself to mural decorating. He became director of the American Academy in Rome ture industry to develop into one of the Pin 1903. His principal decorations are at residences of F. W. Vanderbilt, C. P. Huntington, J. Pierpont Morgan, Appelthe late Court House, and University Club, New York.
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