Militia (STATE The following shows)
STATE. The following shows the authorized strength of regularly organized militia, or National Guard, in the several States and tories, 1920: officers FISCAL YEAR 1920 Gen- Maine 1,563 Oklahoma .. 3,813 Every Minnesota 5,196 awards Oregon 2,152 and Rhode Island 1,086 subjects. ... Utah 713 Public .... Tennessee. 2,294 10, - Colorado 2,069 been Vermont 874 the Kansas 4,043 cir- ... Washington. 2,695 ref- Porto Rico 1,641 is Alabama 2,432 military .. Missouri 4,429 Virginia 2,365 Florida 1,563 OF New York 20,857 the Wyoming. .. 560 , di- New Jersey 4.084 Included Iowa 4,580 Niger, South Carolina 1,859 Niger Niger. Wisconsin 10,419 Hawaii See 3,020 District of Columbia. United 801 Idaho 389 Ohio 13,184 California 3,584 under Arizona 658 .. and Connecticut 1,360 The Georgia 2,877 Mississippi war 1,879 defense North Carolina 2,721 regular Maryland 3,044 at Michigan. 3,326 Pennsylvania 13,273 Co- Texas 15,896 .. Other States 31,621 Provide Total. Militia 178,920 Naval The actual strength was about 50,000. of See MILITARY ORGANIZATION, UNITED year. STATES. Offi- Great
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Milk Fever
a fever which sometimes arises in females when first milk is secreted after child-birth.
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Milk Snake
a harmless snake of a grayish ash color, with three rows of dark spots along the back and sides. It is found in the Northern and Middle United States. MILKY WAY. See GALAXY.
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Milkweed
a common plant with milky juice. We have a large number of milkweeds. The entire family includes over 1,000 species, most of them found in tropical climates. Most observing young people have noticed the fleshy flowers with a hooded crown and curious horns. The stickiness of the milk is due to rubber of which it contains considerable quantities. The bark of some kinds yields a valuable fiber. A mountain tribe of India uses these fibers to make elastic bowstrings. Another tribe makes the ropes and bands used in wells of this material, because it does not rot in water. From the roots of the red milkweed, over which orange-colored butterflies hover, herb doctors drew a valuable remedy for pleurisy. Several tropical milkweeds are cultivated in hothouses on account of their curious flowers. The silky down of the milkweed pod suggests the cotton plant.
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Milky Way
in astronomy, a luminous band of light extending quite around the heavens. It is produced by myriads of stars, each of which is supposed to be a sun like our own. In fact our sun is thought to be one of our stars of the Milky Way. This band of light is known also as the galaxy. In one point in its course, it divides into two great branches which remain apart for nearly one-third of the great circle , then reunite. The average width is several degrees. Various portions differ considerably in brightness. In places the stars are so distant that few of them are above the eighth magnitude. See Stars A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. --Milton, Paradise Lost .
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Mill
JOHN STUART, an English philosopher; son of James Mill; born in London, England, May 20, 1806. He was trained under the immediate influence of his father. At the age of 14 he entered on a course of political economy, and thereafter this strenuous education of the boy ceased-so far, at least, as the strict surveillance of his father was concerned. In his 21st year he edited Bentham's work "On Evidence." In 1843 appeared the first of his two chief works, "A System of Logic," the second being 66 "Principles of Political Economy" (1848). To these he afterward added his work "On Liberty" (1859); "Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform" (1861); "Utilitarianism" (1862); the "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," and a "Study of Auguste Comte and Positivism" (1865). In this last year he was returned to Parliament as member for Westminster. His Autobiography was published in 1873, and the three essays, "Nature," "The Utility of Religion," and "Theism," in 1874. Mill's works on logic and political economy are standard textbooks. In the former he placed the system of inductive logic on a firm basis. He died in Avignon, France, May 8, 1873.
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Mill
a money of account in the United States, being the thousandth part of a dollar , or tenth part of a cent. The mill, however, is not coined.
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Mill (JAMES an English political)
JAMES, an English political economist; born in Forfarshire, Scotland, April 6, 1773. In 1818 he published his admirable "History of British India." He also produced several valuable works on legislation and morals, viz., his "Elements of Political Economy"; an "Analysis of the Human Mind"; and "Prison and Prison Discipline"; "Colonies"; "Laws of Nations"; and "Education." He held the office of chief examiner of accounts to the East India Company. He died in Kensington, June 23, 1836. 19V
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Mill (Machine for grinding grain)
a machine for grinding grain, fruit, or other substances, and reducing them to a fine powder. Also a lapidary's nding wheel, known as roughing mill, cloth mill, etc. Also a machine, or complication of engines or machinery, for working up raw material. In die-sinking, the hardened steel roller having the design in cameo, and used for impressing in intaglio a plate, as in the bank-note system of engraving; or a copper cylinder, as in the process of engraving cylinders for calico printing.
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Mill-cinder
The slag produced at the reheating and puddling furnaces. This slag, after several days' roasting, becomes highly refractory, and is known as bulldog, making an excellent substance for the bottoms of puddling-furnaces. These rich slags are sometimes mixed with the ores in the blast-furnace, and the iron thus produced is then denominated cinder-pig; but, owing to the large percentage of phosphorus usually present in pig iron made by this method, it is very inferior in quality. These slags are frequently called tap and forge cinder. See SLAG.
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Millais
SIR JOHN EVERETT (mil-lā'), an English painter; born in Southampton, England, June 8, 1829. He gained his first medal for drawing when nine years old; became a student at the Royal Academy; exhibited his first picture "Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru" (1846); and received the gold medal for a historical painting, "The Tribe of Benjamin seizing the Daughters of Shiloh" (1848). In his earlier days he was a leader of the pre-Raphaelite School, but on attaining maturity in art he abandoned the peculiarities for which that school is noted. As the result of this new departure Millais painted such pictures as "Ferdinand Lured by Ariel," "Mariana in the Moated Grange," "The Huguenot Lovers," "The Black Brunswicker," and "Ophelia," while its influence was also apparent in his landscapes of "Chill October," "The Fringe ge of the Moor," etc. He was chosen president of the Royal Academy in 1896. He died in London, Aug. 13, 1896.
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