excellent magazine guns now extant. The Lee-Remington 11.38 in Lincoln Counties. Aroostook County shows the largest weighs, fully loaded, just 9 lbs. The Amer. caliber is.45", and increase, the numerical increase in that county being 7,889 and the best opinion is that less than .40" is a great mistake. The the percentage of increase 18.92. The following summary usual service charge is from 70 to 90 grains of powder. The whole subject may be summed up by the remark that the best magazine gun now fires 10 shots in nine seconds, or one a second, and from 35 to 40 per minute as a steady fusilade. The trajectory is extremely flat, and they kill at the range of a mile. Magin'nis, (JOHN SHARP, D.D.,) b. in Pa. 1805; studied at Waterville, Me., Brown University, and Newton Theological Seminary; entered Bap. ministry 1827; settled at Portland, Me., 1882; Providence, R. I., 1887-88; professor in Hamilton (now Madison) Theological Institute; professor in Rochester University 1850. D. 1852. shows for each county the pop, as returned in 1890 and in 1880, together with the increase or decrease during the decade: SUMMARY BY COUNTIES. COUNTIES. Androscoggin...... Aroostook Hancock. ............... Kennebec.............. Knox ................. 0.98 0.91 Lincoln................. Mag'nitude, in Astron., as applied to the stars, has no reference to their size, either actual or apparent, but only to their apparent brightness. They are divided into classes by an arbitrary scale, about 20 of the brightest being classed as 1st magnitude, and stars just visible to the naked eye in an ordinary clear, moonless sky being called of the 6th magnitude. This classification reaches down from the times of Hipparchus and Ptolemy, and it has been extended to the fainter telescopic star, though with very different scales, by different prominent astronomers in the latter part of the 18th and the first part of Somerset.............. the 19th c. The scale almost universally adopted to-day, how-Waldo................. ever, that of Argelander, follows very closely the old scale from Washington.... the 1st to the 6th down into the fainter magnitudes, the light-York... ratio between consecutive magnitudes being very nearly two and one half; i. e., a 3d magnitude star is about two and one half times as bright as a 4th, a 4th two and one half times as bright as a 5th, and so on. In more exact photometric work to-day it is the generally adopted rule to use for a light-ratio the number whose logarithm is 0.4. This makes all the computations more simple. This number is approximately 2.512. Magone', (DANIEL,) b. in Ogdensburg, N. Y., about 1881, of Irish parentage; studied law and began its practice in his native city; member of Gov. Tilden's Canal Commission in 1875, and wielded great influence in Democratic State politics. Collector of the Port of New York, 1886-89. ................... The State.... Twenty-six cities and towns show a pop. of 4,000 and over, in the order of their rank, in the following table: CITIES AND TOWNS. Portland city. Mahaf'fy, (JOHN PENTLAND,) an Irish educator, b. in Switzerland 1839; was educated in Germany and at Trinity Coll., Dublin, being graduated in 1859, and winning a fellowship in 1864. He was made Prof. of Ancient History there in 1869, and was Donnellan lecturer 1873-74. He is noted for a wide range of scholarship, and has been a frequent contributor to periodicals and has published books on many subjects. Among these are Lectures on Primitive Civilization; Prole-Calais city. gomena to Ancient History, treating of Egyptian antiquities; Greek Social Life from Homer to Menander; Rambles and Studies in Greece; History of Greek Classical Literature. Mahanoy' City, a borough of Pa. in Schuylkill Co., 13 m. N.-N.-E. of Pottsville, on branches of the Reading and the Lehigh Valley R.Rs. It is a seat of very active operations in the mining of anthracite coal from which it chiefly derives its prosperity. There are about 20 collieries. It has a national bank, churches of all the leading denominations, newspapers, and several manufactories. The town has public halls and a library. Pop. 11,286. Mahone', (WILLIAM,) an Amer. lawyer and legislator, b. about 1836; served in the Confederate army and attained general's rank; U. S. senator from Va. for six yrs. 1881-87. Maine. The pop. of M., according to the Eleventh Census, was 661,086-an increase during the decade of 12,150, or 1.87 per cent. Of the 16 counties in the State seven show decreases, the largest percentages of decreases being 14.49 in Waldo and Skowhegan town...... Camden town....... Total.... |