MIDGE 



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MIDLAND RAILWAY 



nj5 refers to a product of the 



"CM of flour -milling, 



l-v roller mills. These first break 



up tin- nr.iin of the wheat into a 



prixlm -t hic-h apart from the bran 



< separated into three grades 



KM .MM as semolina, middling)), and 



dmiM, which are subsequently 



milled l>y oilier rollers to hour. 



In metallurgy, the term refers to 

 :i product nl the grading or con- 

 centration of ores. This grading 

 may divide the ore into two parts 

 only, the one rich in metal and 

 the other worthless ; but fre- 

 quent ly there are three products, a 

 rich one ready for immediate smelt- 

 ing or other treatment; an inter- 

 me.liate one which will be sub- 

 mitted to a further preliminary 

 treatment; and a third which is 

 worthless, and is at once rejected. 

 '1 'In > are known respectively as 

 middling?, and tailings. See 

 .Metallurgy; Milling. 



Midge. Name applied vaguely 

 to many dipterous or two-winged 

 - resembling small gnats, but 

 correctly restricted to the family 

 Chironomidae. They may be seen 

 on summer evenings in dense 

 swarms, and are often mistaken 

 for gnats. The majority lack the 

 skin-piercing proboscis of the gnat, 

 bui one genus has lance-like jaws 

 capable of drawing blood. Many 

 mischievous insects, as the Hessian 

 and wheat fly, also go by the name 

 of midge. See Gnat ; Hessian Fly ; 

 Insect. 



Midhat Pasha (1822 - 84). 

 Turkish statesman. Born in Bul- 

 garia, he entered the Turkish civil 

 service, rose 

 rapidly, and 

 in 1856 was 

 charged with 

 the repression 

 of brigandage 

 in R u m e 1 i a. 

 During his 

 governorship 

 of Bulgaria, 

 1802-67, he 

 ?'ried out 

 important re- 

 forms. At the end of 1867 he en- 

 tered the government as minister 

 of public works* Becoming grand 

 vi/.ier in 1876, he was a prime mover 

 in the deposition of Abdul Aziz. 

 Under Abdul Hamid he was again 

 grand vizier, and drew up the draft 

 constitution of t he Ottoman Empire, 

 but \v;)s banished in Feb., 1877. 

 Allowed to return in 1878, he was 

 nominated governor of Syria. Sen- 

 tence of death passed upon him in 

 1881, on a charge of murdering Ab- 

 dul Aziz, was commuted to banish- 

 ment through the representation of 

 the I'.ritish Government, and he 

 died iii Arabia, May 8, 1884. See 

 Life, Au Haydar Midhat, 1903. 



Midi 



Ruins ot Cowdray Cattle, a Tudor mansion lormerly the 

 eat o! the earl o! Egmont 



Midhurst. Market town of 

 Sussex. It stands on the Rother, 

 12 m. from Chichester, with stations 

 on the L.B. & S.C. and L. & S.W. 

 Rlys. The church, dedicated to 

 S. Mary Magdalene and S. Denis, 

 is a Perpendicular building. There 

 was a castle here, the seat of the 

 Bohuns, in the Middle Ages. There 

 is a 17th cent, grammar school and 

 the Spread Eagle dates in part from 

 the 15th cent. About 4 m. N. is 

 the King Edward VII sanatorium 

 for consumptives, opened in 1905. 

 Near the town, which is surrounded 

 by some of the most lovely scenery 

 in Sussex, are the ruins of Cow- 

 dray Castle. Midhurst was a 

 borough in the Middle Ages, but 

 soon lost its rights, and was long 

 governed by a bailiff elected in the 

 manorial court. It was, however, 

 separately represented in Parlia- 

 ment from 1300 to 1885, and had 

 its markets and fairs. Market 

 day, Thurs. Pop 1900. 



Midi. District of France. With- 

 out any definite area, it is generally 

 regarded as the region between the 

 Bay of Biscay and the Mediter- 

 ranean. Toulouse is its capital. 

 It was originally the Middle Land 

 between France and Spain. 



Midi, AIGUILLE DU. Mt. in 

 France. A peak of the Mont Blanc 

 chain, S.E. of Chamonix, its 

 alt. is 12,600 ft. See Mont Blanc. 



Midi, CANAL DU. Canal of S. 

 France. It runs from Toulouse to 

 La Nouvelle, near Narbonne, on 

 the Etang de Thau. Known also 

 as the canal du Languedoc, it 

 connects with the canalised Ga- 

 ronne, and thus unites the Mediter- 

 ranean with the Atlantic. Built 

 between 1666-81 by Paul Riquet, 

 it is still an important waterway 

 for the trade of the S.W. depts. In 

 the 148 m. of its length there are 

 100 locks, and the chief towna 

 served by it are Toulouse, Ville- 

 franche, Castelnaudary, Carcas- 

 sonne, and Narbonne. 



Midi, Pio DU. Mt. of the 

 Pyrenees, in S. France, entitled in 

 full Pio du Midi d'Ossau. It is 

 nearly due S. of Pau and almost on 

 the frontier. The Grand Pic has 

 an alt. of 9,465 ft. and the Petit Pic 

 9,135 ft. 



Midian. Ancient region of 

 Arabia. The territory of the 

 Midianitcs, a tribe descended, ac- 

 cording to Genesis, from Midian, a 

 son of Abraham by the Arabian 

 Kcturah, it extended along the E. 

 coast of the Gulf of Akabah. The 

 Miclianites, who were partly no- 

 madic and traded by caravan with 

 Egypt and Syria, also inhabited 

 Sinai and the S. borders of Pales- 

 tine. It was to merchants from 

 Midian that Joseph was sold by 

 his brethren. Moses married a 

 daughter of Jethro, probably a 

 priest of Baal-Peor, the national 

 god. The Midianitcs were fre- 

 quently in league with the Moab- 

 ites against the Hebrews, but 

 were overthrown by Gideon. 



Midland Bank. Short name for 

 the London Joint City and Mid- 

 land Bank (q.v.). Adopted in 1923, 

 its official designation is Midland 

 Bank, Limited. 



Midland Great Western Rail- 

 way. Irish railway company. Its 

 main line goes from Dublin to 

 Galway and Clif- 

 den, other towns 

 served being 

 -Mullingar, Sligo 

 and A t h 1 o n e, 

 while it has 

 running powers 

 to Limerick, the 

 line thus con- 

 necting the E. 

 and the W. 

 coasts. The company, which was 

 incorporated in 1845, has its head- 

 quarters at Broadstone Terminus, 

 Dublin. Its total mileage is 795, its 

 capital 6,500,000, and it owns the 

 Royal Canal, several hotels, and a 

 dock. Its first line was from Dublin 

 to Mullingar. Soon this was ex- 

 tended to Galway, Sligo, and else- 

 where. 



Midland Junction. Town in 

 Swan district, Western Australia. 

 A rly. junction 10 m. N. of Perth, 

 it has a pop. of 3,900. 



Midland Railway. British rly. 

 company. The main line runs from 

 London, St. Pancras, to Carlisle. 

 It has another line going from 

 Derby to Bath and Bristol, and a 

 network of lines in and around 

 the midland counties. It serves, in 



M.G.W. Railway 

 arms 



