Milner
ALFRED, 1st Viscount an English colonial governor, bo Bonn, Germany, March 23, 1854. Educated at Tübingen, King's College, London, and Balliol, Oxford. Studied law. York, Became a journalist 1882-1885. Secretary to C. J. ( afterward Lord) Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1887-1889. Under Secretary of Finance, Egypt, 1889-1892., Chairman Board of Internal Revenue 1892-1897, High Commissioner for South Africa 1897, and Governor of Good Hope. Created Viscount 1902. Governor Transvaal and Orange River Colonies 1901. Resigned offices and returned to England in 1905. Lord Milner was severely criticized in Liberal party circles as sharing the responsibility for the South African War with Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The House of Commons indirectly expressed disapproval of some of his acts in the Transvaal. The House of Lords placed on record its appreciation of his services in the colonies and an address praising his work and signed by 370,000 names was presented in August, 1906. Secretary of State for War 1918-1919.
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Milnes
RICHARD MONCKTON. See HOUGHTON, LORD. MILO. See MELOS.
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Milouna Pass
a high point in the Olympian Mountains in Thessaly, not far from Tyrnavos. It was the scene of | a Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. i
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Milton
town of Norfolk co., Mass., 7 miles S. of Boston, on the Neponset river, New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. Contains homes of many Boston business people. Has academy and meteorological observatory. Large stone quarries in the vicinity. Town meeting form of government. Pop. ( 1910) 7,924; ( 1920) 9,382. HN, an English Engl poet,
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Milton (Borough in Northumberland co)
a borough in Northumberland co., Pa., on the West Branch of the Susquehanna river, and on the Philadelphia and Reading, and Pennsylvania railroads; 15 miles W. N. W. of Danville. There are several churches, National bank, and weekly newspapers. It has rolling mills, car shops, knitting factory, saw and planing mills, and manufactories of nails, tools, and machinery. Pop. (1910) 7,460; (1920) 8,638.
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Milton College
a coeducational institution in Milton, Wis.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Seventh 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.
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Milyukoff
PAUL NIKOLAIE- VITCH , Russian historian and publicist, born near Petrograd, in 1859. Graduat ing from Moscow University, he taught for some years, then became involved in a revolutionary movement, which pelled him to flee abroad. After a brief period as professor of Slavic history in the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, he came to America and was for three years a member of the faculty of Chicago University. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where he became engaged in politics and assumed the leadership of the Constitutional Democratic party, more popularly known as "the Cadets." prominent as a journalist and founded He was also the newspaper " Retch." After the revolution of March, 1917, when he was a member of the Duma, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of the Provisional Government. Incurring the displeasure of the radical elements, because of his advocacy of Russian ex- PAUL NIKOLAIEVITCH MILYUKOFF nople, he was forced to resign. After pansion in the direction of Constantithe second revolution , which placed the abroad, and was later one of the body of Bolsheviki in power, he became a refugee Ru Russians who urged the Allied countries to adopt an anti-Bolshevik policy. representation among the Greeks and
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Mime
a kind of farce or dramatic Romans, in which incidents of real life were represented in a ludicrous or farcical fashion.
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Mimeograph
an instrumay be transcribed and multiplied, ment by which copies of any document through the use of a stencil made of thin paper prepared with paraffine or similar typewriting machine, and receives the substance, which is put upon an ordinary impression of the letters in the ordinary way. sub-order Mimoseæ and the tribe Eumi-
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Mimetic Magic
(See Magic.) 66 دو The
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Mimosa
the typical genus of the moseæ. included the Acacia and nearly all the other genera of the modern sub-order As constituted by Linnæus, it Mimosa. About 200 are known, the India and Africa. majority from America, the rest from herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing; the leaves are bipinnate, and in some species They are prickly sensitive. M. pudica and M. sensitiva are the sensitive plants. The former is naturalized over India; the leaves are prescribed in piles and fistula. The bruised leaves of M. rubicaulis are applied to burns. Its root is charred for gunpowder charcoal. The legumes of M. saponaria, or Acacia concinna, are saponaceous and are an article of commerce in India.
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Mina
an ancient denomination of money among the Greeks, and was worth about $16.
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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.
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Minas
capital of Minas department, Uruguay, 55 miles N. E. of Montevideo, on railroad to Montevideo. Is center of farming and stock-raising district, with stone quarries. Pop. about 10,000.
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Minas Geraes
the most populous state of Brazil, inland from Espirito Santo and S. of Bahia; area 222,894 square miles. Pop. (1917) 5,064,- 858. Lying wholly in the tableland, its surface is occupied with grass and bushcovered campos, rising, however, in the Serra do Espinhaco to 5,900 feet; the principal rivers include the navigable Sao Francisco and the Rio Grande, which unites with the Paranahyba to form the Paraná. Agriculture and stock raising are the chief industries; some gold is still obtained, and diamonds, iron, and lead are mined. The inhabitants are principally Indians.
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Mincio
ancient Mincius, a river of northern Italy. It flows from the southern extremity of Lake Garda, and after forming lakes and marshes around Mantua joins the Po, 8 miles beyond. It was a military base during the old wars between France and Austria, and is 115 miles long.
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Mind
in popular sometimes used as opposed Metaphysicians of the a rule, contradistinguish heart, but only from They regard it as possessing emotions as well as intellectual powers; the former manifesting themselves in feeling, the latter in thought. Its existence is supposed to be established by the consciousness of the thinking individual. Till about the middle of the 19th century, mind was almost universally held to be possessed by none of the inferior animals; any apparent intelligence on their part was attributed to instinct. Darwin declared that the intellect and even the moral powers of man did not differ in kind, though very greatly in degree, from the rudiments of them exhibited by the lower animals. Not denying the latter instincts, he sought to establish that they had reason too, and that the superiority was the result chiefly of natural selection carried on through cosmic periods of time.
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