Mankato
a city and county-seat of Blue Earth co., Minn.; at the junction of the Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago Great Western railroads; 86 miles S. W. of St. Paul. It is in an agricultural and timber region. Here are a State Normal School, hospitals, a public library, National and savings banks, electric lights, and waterworks. The city has daily and weekly newspapers; manufactories of fiber, linseed oil oil, crackers, foundry products, flour, hosiery, and candy; important marble, cement, limestone, and lumber interests. Mankato was the scene of several battles during the Sioux Indian War, and here 38 Sioux were executed in 1862. Pop. (1910) 10,365; (1920) 12,469.
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Manna Ash
a tree which grows on the skirts of mountains in Calabria. Between the middle of June and the end of July the manna gatherers make an incision in the bole of the tree, which they deepen the second day, inserting a maple leaf to receive the gum. Sometimes bits of reed or twigs are applied, on which the manna hardens in tubular pieces called canali; these being considered purer than the rest, fetch a higher price.
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Mannering
MARY, an actress, at born Manchester in 1876, in in London 1892., Came first appeared to New York in 1896, and at Buffalo, N. Y., four years later scored her first success in Janice " Meredith." She married James K. Hackett, and later F. E. Wadsworth. She retired from the stage in 1912.
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Mannes
DAVID, an American violinist; born in New York 1866. He took up the violin very early and without any teaching he soon showed his remarkable talent. Later, after he had some instruction, he played in various New York orchestras , going in the summers to study under some of the noted European violinists, especially Ysaye. In 1891 Walter Damrosch engaged him for the New York Symphony Orchestra and since that time he has taken his place as one of the leading violinists of America. In 1910 he became director of the Music school settlement in which he had always been greatly interested. He took a large part, also, in founding a Musical School Settlement for Colored People in 1912.
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Mannheim
a town and capital of the former grand-duchy of Baden, circle of the Lower Rhine, at the confluence of the Neckar and the Rhine, 37 miles public S. buildings E. of Mayence are the. palace The principal ing museums of antiquities, natural, containtory, etc., and a hislibrary of 80,000 volumes; the observatory, a noble buildheight ing, with, and a the curious tower 108 feet in custom house; manufactures tinsel ware, carpets, linen, and silk goods, tobacco, ribbons, shawls, etc. Its neighborhood produces hops and garden stuff in large quantities, and besides its traffic in cattle and agricultural products, it has a considerable transit trade by the Rhine and the Neckar. Pop. about 200,000.
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Manning
HENRY EDWARD, an English clergyman and wr writer; born in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, in which he rose to be Archdeacon of Chichester (1840), he became a Roman Catholic priest in 1851; Archbishop of Westminster in 1865; cardinal in 1875. He founded the Roman Catholic University of Kensington in 1874. He was a friend of the laboring classes. He wrote: "Unity of the Church" (1842); "Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost" (3d ed. 1877); "The Catholic Church and Modern Society" (1880); "The Eternal Priesthood" (1883); "Religio Viatoris" (A Traveler's Religion); etc. He died in Westminster, Jan. 14, 1892. MANOMEETER American MANNING Protestant, WILLIAM Episcopal THOMAS clergy-, an man, born in 1866. He graduated from the University of the South in 1893, was ordained deacon in 1889 and priest in 1891, served as rector in Redlands, Cal., in 1892, and as profesor of dogmatic theology at the University of the South in 1893-1895. After serving several parishes he was appointed asas rector of sistant rector and then rector of Trinity parish , New York, in 1908. On Jan. 26, 1921, he was elected Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York to succeed Charles S. Burch, deceased.
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Mannite
in chemistry, C6H14O6= C6H2 (OH) 6. Mannitol, sugar of manna, sugar of mushrooms. A sugar very disseminated in the vegetable kingdom, occurring in the leaves of Ligustrum vulgare, in numerous bulbs, in fungi, in seaweeds, in the sap of the apple and cherry trees, limes, etc. It is most readily obtained from manna by treating it with boiling alcohol, filtering, and allowing the alcoholic solution to crystallize. From alcohol it crystallizes in fine silky needles; from water in large transparent rhombic prisms. It has an intensely sweet taste, is soluble in cold water, very soluble in boiling water, but insoluble in ether. It melts between 160° and 170 °, and boils at 200 °, distilling with very little decomposition. It may be prepared artificially from grape sugar by the action of hydrogen. MANŒUVRES, or MANEUVERS, the movements and evolutions of any large body of troops or fleet of ships, for the purpose of testing the efficiency of the various bodies of the service under the conditions of actual warfare, and for the purpose of instructing officers in tactics, and officers and men in their various duties.
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Manograph
a device for indicating the varying pressure in an engine cylinder, when the pressure changes with a cyclically varying volume. It is used chiefly on high-speed engines and internalcombustion motors.
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Manometer
an instrument for measuring the elastic force of gases or steam. It consists of a graduated tube in which a body of confined air is compressed by the gas or steam under experimental test, a body of mercury intervening between the air in the tube and the gas or steam whose elastic force is to be ascertained. The tube containing the confined air, of a certain volume at a given temperature, is maintained at the said temperature by a bath, and is tested for the graduation of the tube by means of a column of mercury. It is then ready for the connection by a tube with the reservoir or boiler which contains the gas or steam whose elastic force is to be ascertained. A steam gauge. Called also a manoscope.
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