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LEFT MULLION 6U MUNDELEIN family Mugilidse. The former are distin- the Egyptians, filling the hollow caused guished as red, and the latter as gray by the removal of the viscera with salt mullets. and an absorbent vegetable powder. In MULLION, a vertical division between horticulture, a sort of wax used in graft- the lights of windows, screens, etc., in J^f *^.^^^- ^^ pamting, a sort of brown Gothic architecture. Mullions are rarely bitummous pigment. To beat to a found earlier than the Early English "^^"^^y^ ^o thrash severely, to pound. style. The term is also applied to the di- MUMPS, a contagious disease com- vision between the panels m wamscotting. municated by the saliva, sometimes epi- MULTAN, or MOOLTAN (mol-tan'), demic, and characterized by a specific a city of India, in the Punjab, the chief swelling and inflammation in the parotid city and capital of a district of same ^^^d salivary glands, commonest in name; 4 miles from the Chenab; partly children, and in boys rather than girls, surrounded by a wall, and overlooked ^^ occurs mostly in spring and autumn, by a fortress of some strength occupied i" cold and damp weather, by European troops. The streets are MTTwr-TT-p-Kr <?pa MiTMrrw mostly narrow and tortuous. It is one MUNCHEN. bee MUNICH. of the most ancient cities in India, and MUNOHEN-GLADBACH. See Glad- is the center of a large trade. Pop. bach about 100,000. . ^TT.^^_^__ . .., .., , , MUNCHHAUSEN, BARON HIEBO- MULTIPLE, m arithmetic and algebra, nymITS KABL FRIEDRICH VON a nuniber which contains another num- (miin/i'hou-zen), a German-Russian mili- bex an exact number of times without tary officer; born in Bodenwerder, Hano- any remainder; thus, 20 is a multiple ver. May 11, 1720. He served in his ^n>^i..£ .""TJ" "^Vljiple of two or more youth as an officer in the Russian cavalry, . S . f Y a^^t!?"^«tic any nunaber ^^d passed the close of his life in his r? S Jr^? K ^^''} ^ these numbers native country, delighting in narrating ?i.^^n5L" «^ /n • *™^' without any the most astounding stories of his war- remainder ; as, 30 is a common mu tip e like exploits in the campaign against tk^ t oil ;. fe^^ v-"^"""- n "T^il^^^ the Turks in 1737-1739, and thereby gain- il^c 9?li f .n ^^ ^^'^}^ 7^"^^° this; ing the reputation of being the greltest ih^;^ 19 f^^fW Wf'T.^*'^^^ °^ ?.-^V^ liar of his time. He died in Bodenwerder. M,?i??r.l nni^f n? 1'* ^'"T" "^^^^T^^- ^cb. 22, 1797. A Compilation of his fS iSwi^V^^fw r* I"g^°°^et^' prodigious "yams" was published in nf^.n^,v^^4r?'Lf^^ London in 1785, under the title of of a curve intersect each other The ana- ..garon Munchausen's Narrative of His lytical characteristic of a multiple point Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in of a curve is, that at it the first differ- Russia " ential co-efficient of the ordinate must have two or more values. MUNCIE, a city and county-seat of ■M-mur-M-Tr ,• i i j-t- Delaware co., Ind.; on the White river, ,.^^^f^I^J^ Z S. ¥' • n "^""^ and on the Lake Erie and Western; the fo^^L f™ /. J!T ' ^^^^^ca"y P^e- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. nf Jfl/iSo. Sl^.?fri°"' P^^^es^s Louis, the Chesapeake and Ohio of Indi- of embalming By far the larger number ^na, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and ll).T.T'tn,i^^^ Y^^ been brought to Louisville, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, p1?i jr w nf' 1^'-^^^%^^% *° *^^ Chicago and St. Louis and the Central mnSr.f Trv, -fi K^°*^ ^^^^*' 'T^ Indiana railroads; 53 miles N. E. of Im^^Lt^lT'^Z^r^'T^T^^^^f^ Indianapolis. It contains the Muncie ?o P^r^hS' n.ft 'L'^^'^-f ^'° -^t^ ''"'^"' Normal Institute, high schools, hospital, i% otw Jfs, crocodiles, ichneumons, public library, street Railroad aAd electric ?Ikr.hS Lto r*l ^r'v ^i'Vi, ^f ^^^w fight plants, several National banks, and tS ni^rtW w.f ^^^^'f fi, *l^•^^/• *te* dftly and weekly newspapers. It has a neoe^^ftv nlrS^ ^"^ to the behef in the puip^m, a number of large glass works Tn SfnpL^fnv fv.^^*^^^'"'^?'"^^^^^^ and automobile works, se?erJl iron and Fp-vn?^rSJ?f *^? resurrection. The ^teel works. Pop. (1910) 24,005; (1920) Ji-gyptian practice of mummification had oc coa a wide range in time. It is fixed at '*°'''^*- from 3800 to 4000 B. c. MUNDELEIN, GEORGE WILLIAM, The Metropolitan Museum in New Catholic archbishop; born in New York, York has a rich collection of mummies, in 1872, he studied at St. Vincent's Semi- The ancient Peruvians practiced a kind nary, Beatty, Pa., and attained his D. D. of mummification ; and the Guanches, the degree at the Propaganda College, Rome. aborigines of the Canaries, employed a He was ordained priest in 1895, became method of embalming similar to that of secretary to bishop and pastor of Lithu-