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LEFT MAYONNAISE 166 MAZABIN century these two surgeons had gained an international reputation, established probably the most modem equipped of all hospitals, and a private laboratory unexcelled in America. The hospital and laboratories, valued at considerably over a million dollars, were given to the University of Minnesota, and the entire research school placed under the control of the regents of the State. The oppor- tunities fiius afforded for research are greatly increased and to-day it is doubt- ful if anywhere in the world there is done better medical research work. MAYONNAISE (ma-yo-naz'), a thick cold sauce for salads, cold meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, etc., made of the yolks of eggs, salad oil and vinegar, with a little salt, cayenne pepper, and meat jelly; it is sometimes colored red with powdered lobster coral, or green with spinach or parsley. MAYOR, the chief magistrate of a city or corporate town. MAYOTTE (ma-yof), or MAYOTTA (ma-yot'ta), an island in the Indian Ocean, one of the Comoros, at the N. E. entrance of the Mozambique Channel, and a French colony; length, about 30 miles; breadth, 20 miles; area, 140 square miles; pop. about 15,000. Some of its volcanic peakfi are nearly 2,000 feet high. MAYSVILLE, a city and county-seat of Mason co., Ky., on the Ohio river and on the Louisville and Nashville and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads; 63 miles S. E. of Cincinnati. There are the Hays- wood Female Seminary, St. Francis de Sales Academy, a high school, the Mays- ville and Mason County Library, Odd Fellows' Library, electric light and street railroad plants, and National and State banks. It has cotton, flour, saw, and planing mills, shoe, furniture, ice, and cigar factories, plow works, daily and weekly papers. Pop. (1910) 6,141: (1920) 6,107. MAYWEED, a European plant (An- themis Cotula), order Compositae. It is a troublesome weed in corn, and difficult to eradicate. It has daisy-like flowers, finely divided leaves, and an unpleasant smell, and sometimes blisters the hands of reapers. MAYWOOD, a town in Cook co., III., on the Des Plaines river, 11 miles W. of Chicago, on the Chicago Great Western and other railroads. Seat of the German Lutheran Theological Seminary, and homes for old people and crippled chil- dren. Has large steel and tin plate works, and city-owned waterworks. Pop. (1910) 8,033; (1920) 12,072. MAZANDERAN (ma-zen-de-ran'), a province of N. Persia, bordering the Caspian Sea for about 200 miles, and ly- ing between the provinces of Ghilan and Astrabad; consists of a belt of low marshy coast land, 10 to 20 miles wide, backed by the well-wooded slopes of thel Elburz. The climate is very changeable, in summer both rainy and unhealthy, but on the uplands fairly salubrious. Owing to the fertility of the soil, which is watered by numerous small rivers, the Persians call the province the "Garden of Iran." Rice, wheat, and othej: cereals, cotton, mulberry trees, and a variety of fruits are produced; horses, asses, and camels are extensively bred; and iron ores and mineral oils very abundant; area of province, 10,400 square miles; pop. about 200,000. Chief town Sari, though Barfurush is the seat of trade with Russia. MAZARIN, JULES (ma-za-rawfir'), an Italian ecclesiastic; born in Pescina, Italy, July 14, 1602. He studied at Al- cala, in Spain, after which he went to JULES MAZARIN Rome, and became attached to the serv- ice of Cardinal Sachetti, whom he ac- companied on a mission into Lombardy. Mazarin rendered important assistance in the negotiations which effected a peace between the French and Spaniards. This procured him the esteem of Cardinals Richelieu and Barberini, by the latter of whom he was recommended to the Pope, who sent him, in 1634, as nuncio- extraordinary to the court of France*