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* MIAMI UNIVERSITY. 428 MICA. MIAMI UNIVERSITY. A coeducational institution of Icainiiifj; at Oxford. Ohio, founded in ISOn. The first school was opened in 1810, and the university proper began its work in 1824. It has a preparatory, a normal, and a collegiate dejiartment, in the last of which three courses are otl'ired, all leading to the 15. .. degree. A consid- erable freedom is allowed in the election of studies. In 1903 the faculty nuniliered 25, and the attendance was 247, divided about equally among the three departments. Tlie library con- tained 19.000 volumes. The institution was en- dowed in 1S03 with one township of land in Ohio, and receives financial aid from the State, the endowment amounting to .'jaO.OOO and the income to about $55,000. The college cam|)us occupies nearly fiO acres. The grounds and buildings were valued in 1!I0;! at .*250.000 and the college prop- erty amounted to $207,000. MIANA BUG. See INIiTE. MIANTONOMOH, nu-an't6-no'm6. A Nar- ragansett saclicni. wlio succeeded his uncle, Ca- nonicus, in l(i;j. lie was on friendly terms with the early settlers of Massachusetts, and assist<(l them during the IVcpiot war of 1637. In 1(!43 he conducted an unsuccessful expedition against Uncas, the Slohegan sachem, his bitter rival, with whom, however, he had agreed in 1038 not to open hostilities without first appealing to the whites. Being captured, he was handed over by l'nca.s to the Commissioners of the United Colo- nics, and was tried by an ecclesiastical court (U'ganized for the ])urpose. which condemned him to death and commissioned Uncas to carry out the sentence. . brotlier of the latter soon after- wards killed the unsuspecting captive on the spot now called Sachem's plain (near (Greenville), where he had originally been captured. . moiui- nient erected there in 1841 commemorates the event. MIAO-TSE, m.--a'otse, or MIAU-TSI. The inhabitants of the mountainous regions of South- ern China, in parts of the provinces of Hupeh, Sze-chuan. Yunnan, Kwei-chow, Hu-nan, Kwang- hsi. and Kwatigtung. They number several mil- lions, and re[ircs<>nt an aboriginal population of this portion of the Celestial Empire driven back in recent times by the Chinese. INIany of the Jliao-tse tribes are under Chinese rule, but some of them still maintain their independence. The Miao-tse are shorter in stature than the Xorthern Chinese, and apparently not Mongoloid in form and features; some style them "sub-Cau- casian." Certain scholars connect them with the Lolos and the non- Mongoloid Tibetans. T.issus. ^fossos. and kindred i)eoples of the border of China and Indo-China. t)llicrs can see nothing Mongolian about them: still others seek to de- tect Malayan or "Indonesian" alTinities. Some of the aborigines of the island of Hainan arc lliought to be related to the Miaotse. Consult: Kdkins, The Miati-tsi Trihrs (Foochow, 1870); Henry, Lingnam (London. ISSO) ; Bourne's Jour- nrii )„ fionlhiresl China (London. ISSS). MIAS. See Ora.ng-I'TAN. MIAS'MA (N'eo-Lnt.. from Gk. lUaaixa. stain, from lualMiv, minhwin. to pollute). A term formerly applied to any disease which was thought to arise from polluted air. Miasma has hnd slightly dilTerent meanings at dilTcrent times, but has been most generally used to indicate cer- tain imponderable morbific emanations from the soil of particular localities. Since the discovery of the specific Plasmodium of malaria, and its conveyance by the mosquito, the term miasma has lapsed into disuse and is now rarely seen in medic:il literature. See iLi.AHiA axd Malarial Fi:vKR: IxsKCT.s, Broiwoatiox of Dise.isk by. MIASSKIY ZAVOD, nu'-as'kA za-v6d'. A mining town in eastern liussia in the government of Orenburg, situated among the Ural Mountains, 35 miles west of Cheliabinsk and near the rail- road to that town. Its mines produce over 17,000 ounces of gold annuallv. Population, 1S97, 10,100. MIAULIS, me-ou'lcs, Axureas Vokos ( c. 17ii.S-lS35). A (Jreek patriot, bom in the island of Xegropont. Brought up as a sailor, he gave his services and his pro])erty heartily to the cause of the (ireck revolution in 1821, and was put in command of the Greek fieet. In March, 1822, he defeated a Turkish scjuadron at Patras. and in Septeml)er amitber squadron near Spezzia. In 1825 he burned the fieet commanded by Ibrahim I'aslia near Modon. In 1827. upon the appointment of the Englishman Lord Cochrane as his superior in command, he lojally continued to serve as a subordinate. He was restored to his old rank by President Capo d'lstria. He participated in the insurrection of 1S3I, and burned the fleet under his command at Poros, to keep it out of the hands of the Rus- sians. He opposed the President's Russian policy and was actively engaged in the bitter controver- sies of the period. In 1832 the naval stations in the Archipelago were placed in his charge, and he served on the deputation sent to Munich to ofTer the crown to Prince Otho of Bavaria. He died at .thens .June 23, 1835. In 1889 a monu- ment was erected to him in Syra. MIAVA, me-O'vo. A town of the County of Xeutra, Hungary, on the ^liava River. 60 miles northeast of Vienna (Map: Hungary, E 2). The manufacture of woolen and linen goods and bag- ging is the chief industry. Population in 1900, 10,039. MICA (Neo-Lat., from Lat. micare, to flash;, confused with and influenced by mica, crumb). . group of minerals that crystallize in the mono- clinic system, and consist essentially of alumi- num silicate with varying proportions of potas- sium, sodium, lithium, iron, magnesium, etc. The dill'crent species are characterized by a basal clc:ivage, yielding thin, tough scales that arc colorless to jet black. The principal mendters of the group include the following: }ttitvorite, or common mica, called alsd potassium mica, as it is essentially an aluminum and potassium silicate. The ccjlorlcss varieties of nuiscovite are used in the doors of stoves and as lamp chimney.''. It is also employed as an insulating nuiterial, in wall-paper manufacture, as a lubricant, and when ground it is used as an absorbent for glycerin in the manufacture of dynamite. During 1900 70.587 pounds of sheet mica were mined in the I'niled States. I'lirnfionilr, or sodium mica, is similar to the foregoing, except that the sodium replaces the potassium in its composition. It is of a yellowish to greenish color. Lrpidolite, or lithium mica, is a potassium, lithium, alumi- mini silicate, also containing lluorine, and is of a rose or peach-blossom color. It finds some use for iunau)ental purposes, and is a source of lithium