MISERY 



Misery. Village of France, in thn 

 .le|ii. of Snnmif, 4 m. N.E. of 

 Cluiiiliii-s (i[.v.). Tho Germans in 

 their retreat to the Hindenburg 

 line, Man li, 1917, burnt it and the 

 Miring village of March6le- 

 |i.it. liefoiv yielding it up to the 

 Allies, and retook it in their offen- 

 sive a year later, when critical 

 li-jlit ing took place, the gap caused 

 1-y ilio retreating Allies leading to 

 the capture by the enemy of 

 See Somme, Battles of the. 

 Mishawaka. City of Indiana, 

 . in St. Joseph co. On the 

 St. Joseph river, 78 m. E.S.E. of 

 Chicago, it is served by the Lake 

 Shore and Michigan Southern and 

 the Grand Trunk rlys. It has 

 manufactures of rubber articles, 

 motor vehicles, machine-shop pro- 

 ducts, etc., and trades in agricul- 

 tural produce. Settled in 1828, it 

 was incorporated as a village in 

 1834 as St. Joseph Iron Works, 

 and received its present name in 

 1838. Pop. 15,200. 



Mishich, ZIVOYEN (1855- 

 1921). Serbian soldier. The son of 

 Radovan Mishich, a peasant, he 

 j^n^g^u^ijiiiMijB was born at 

 j I Struganik, 

 | near Valievo, 

 July 7, 1855, 

 and e'ntered 

 the Military 

 Academy, 

 Belgrade, in 

 1874. He 

 joined the 

 Serbian army 

 as lieutenant 

 of infantry, 1876. and fought in the 

 Serbo-Turkish Wars of 1876 and 

 1877-78, taking part also in the 

 war against Bulgaria, 1885-86. 

 Later he became professor of 

 strategy at the superior military 

 college, Belgrade. A colonel in 

 1901, he was a general in 1912, and 

 was chief of the general staff, under 

 Putnik, during the Balkan Wars, 

 1912-13. 



At the outset of the Great War 

 Mishich was in command of the 

 Serbian second army, and played 

 a distinguished part in the defeat 

 of the Austrian invasions, 1914-15, 

 being made a field-marshal (voi- 

 vo'le) in 1914. He commanded the 

 Serbian second army during the 

 great retreat, 1915, and in 1916 

 he was at the head of the resusci- 

 tated Serbian second army, when 

 the success of his operations in the 

 Tcherna Bend, by which Monastir 

 was outflanked from the E., led to 

 the capture of that city by the 

 Allies. In Sept., 1918, he was one 

 of the Serbian commanders in the 

 great offensive that resulted in the 

 overthrow of Bulgaria. Among his 

 numerous honours were G.C.M.G. 

 and K.C.B. He died Jan. 20, 1921. 



Zivoyin Mishicb, 

 Serbian soldier 



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Mishmi. Aboriginal hill-tribe 

 in the N.E. comer of the Brahma- 

 putra valley, Assam. Numbering 

 (1911) 271, they may represent an 

 ancient offshoot from the Miao of 

 8. China, and are remarkable for 

 tlieir peculiar religion and customs. 

 Mishna (Heb., teaching). Jew- 

 ish code embodying the oral law. 

 A collection of rabbinical teaching 

 and interpretations of the Mosaic 

 law, the Mishna was compiled and 

 edited in its present form by Rabbi 

 Jehudah el Nasi, c. A.D. 200. Di- 

 vided into six parts dealing respec- 

 tively with agriculture, Sabbatical 

 observance, marriage, civil law, 

 sacrifices, and the various unclean 

 and clean things, the Mishna, long 

 handed down orally, is written in 

 late Hebrew. Further commen- 

 taries on the Mishna and the 

 Mosaic law were embodied in a 

 supplementary work called the 

 Gemara, the two forming together 

 the Talmud (q.v.). The Mishna 

 was first printed in 1492 and has 

 been translated and published in 

 most modern languages spoken 

 by Jews. 



Misilmeri (Arab. Menzil el- 

 Emir, quarters of the prince). 

 Town of Sicily, in the prov. of 

 Palermo. It stands at the base of a 

 castle-crowned eminence, 10 m. by 

 rly. S.E. of Palermo. Pop. 13,000. 



Misiones. Territory in the N.E. 

 of Argentina, stretching N.E. be- 

 tween Paraguay and Brazil. It is 

 watered by the Parana and the 

 Uruguay with their tributaries. 

 The Parana flows along the Para- 

 guayan frontier, the Uruguay di- 

 viding it from Brazil Mainly 

 hilly and forest-covered, mate, 

 timber, tobacco, sugar, cereals, 

 and fruits are grown, and cattle are 

 reared. In the 17t,h century the 

 Jesuits founded many mission set- 

 tlements in this region, which were 

 mainly peopled by converted In- 

 dians. The chief town is Posadas 

 on the Parana. Area, 11,511 sq. m. 

 Pop. 54,000. 



Miskolcz. Town of Hungary. 

 It is situated on the Sajo on the 

 edge of the Carpathian foothills, 

 116 m. by rly. from Budapest. The 

 Calvinist church of S. Stephen 

 dates from the 13th century. There 

 is a considerable trade in wheat, 

 wine, and cattle. Flour-milling, 

 pottery and porcelain manufac- 

 tures; and shoe-making are the 

 main industries. A fifth of the in- 

 habitants are Jews and a quarter 

 Calvinists. Pop. 51,000. 



Mispickel OR ABSENICAL PY- 

 RITES. One of the ores of arsenic. 

 The latter is obtained by heating 

 the ore in earthenware cylinders 

 fitted with iron receivers. Mispickel 

 is found in Cornwall, Germany, N. 

 America, etc. See Arsenic. 



MISREPRESENTATION 



Mishmi. Left, a chieftain ol the tribe ; 



right, girl wearing bamboo plugs to 



distend the lobes o! the ears 



Misprision (old Fr. inea, badly ; 

 late Lat. prensio, taking). Term 

 originally meaning a mistake, in 

 English law neglect of duty. The 

 two chief kinds of misprision are 

 misprision of treason and of felony. 

 These offences are committed by 

 knowing of treason or felony and 

 concealing the same. If there is 

 more than mere knowledge, i.e. if 

 there is assent to the treason, the 

 assentor is guilty of substantive 

 treason ; and if there is assent to 

 the felony, he is liable as an acces- 

 sory before or after the fact. In 

 addition to misprision of treason 

 and felony, certain offences in the 

 nature of contempts and high mis- 

 demeanours rank as misprision. s. If 

 a secretary of state or other high 

 executive officer is guilty of mal- 

 administration, as Stratford was, 

 the articles of impeachment de- 

 scribe his offences as high crimes, 

 misdemeanours, and misprisions. 

 The term is also used to describe 

 certain offences which rank as con- 

 tempt of court, as advising a wit- 

 ness not to give evidence. 



Misrata. Coastal city in Tripo- 

 litania, N. Africa. It consists of a 

 large oasis, about 10 m. by 4 m., 

 with 5,000 gardens, and is situated 

 on the coastal caravan route to 

 Horns and Tripoli. It was occupied 

 by the Italians on July 8, 1912. 

 Pop. 10,000. 



Misrepresentation. In English 

 law, a false statement of fact, i.e. 

 not of opinion. A transaction, such 

 as a sale induced by a misrepre- 

 sentation of a material fact, is void- 

 able, i.e. can be repudiated by the 

 party deceived, if he repudiates it 

 as soon as he discovers the falsity 

 of the statement, and if it is pos- 

 sible to put the parties in the same 

 position as before. No action will 



