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LEFT KOTTNT WASHINGTON" 835 MOVING PICTURES nearly as possible to their condition in George Washington's lifetime. In ascend- ing from the river to the house the visi- tor passes the plain, brick tomb of Wash- ington, containing, behind an iron grat- ing, two sarcophagi with the remains of the general^ and his wife, Martha. The home contains an abundance of interest- ing relics of which, perhaps, the key of the French Bastille is the most notable. The room in which Washington died is at the S. end of the first floor, and Mrs. Washington died in the one immediately above it. The tiles in the piazza were brought from the Isle of Wight. The ing of schools of equitation, farriers and horseshoers, bakers and cooks. The 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 com- mandant, instructors, detachment, and student officers and enlisted men. MOUSE, a popular name for the smaller species of the genus Mus, the larger ones being called rats. The com- mon mouse is dusky-gray above, ashy underneath; the tail being about as long as the body. The field mouse, which is MOUNT VERNON coach house contains Washington's car- riage and in the garden are trees planted by his hands. MOUNT WASHINGTON, a peak of the White Mountains, in Coos co,, N. H.j about 85 miles N. by E. of Concord; height, 6,285 feet above sea-level, being not only the culmination of the White Mountains, but the highest land in New England. The summit is reached by a railroad. MT. WILSON SOLAR OBSERVA- TORY, near Pasadena, Cal., at an eleva- tion of 5,886 feet. It was built in 1904, as an expedition from the Yerkes Ob- servatory, by the Carnegie Foundation, and contains a Snow horizontal telescope lent by Yerkes Observatory. Prof. George E. Hale, who was instrumental in having the observatory built, is the director. The clear atmosphere of Mt. Wilson makes it a very desirable spot for solar observations. MOUNTED SERVICE SCHOOL, mili- tary college at Fort Riley, Kan., consist- 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 squir- rel; beneath it is white, with a line be- tween the colors. By shrew mouse is meant the common shrew, sorea; vulgat-is; the short-tailed field mouse is arvioola agrestis. MOUTH, the cavity containing the or- gans of taste, mastication, and insaiiva- tion. 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. MOVING PICTURES, also known as cinema and biograph pictures, an inven- tion whereby a rapid succession of photo- graphs, thrown on a screen, each suc- ceeding picture presenting a slight degree of progress in physical action over the preceding one, produces the optical delu- sion of actual movement. So highly de- veloped has this process become that dramatic stories, or narratives, may be