MISTASSINI 



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MITAU 



that it expresses something which 

 the parties had not really agreed, 

 the court has jurisdiction to rec- 

 tify the document so as to cause 

 it to express the real intention of 

 the parties. 



Mistassini. Lake in the fur 

 country of Quebec, Canada, 

 drained by the Rupert river. 

 Small islands divide it down the 

 centre into practically two sheets 

 of water. Length 100 m., breadth 

 15 to 20 m., depth 300 to 400 ft. 



Mister. English masculine title 

 of respect, abbreviated in writing 

 to Mr. A variant of master, it is 

 used as a prefix in speaking in a 

 ceremonious way of anyone, and 

 sometimes in addressing a man in 

 speech or writing. In its present 

 sense it has been used since the 

 15th century or thereabouts, when 

 it supplanted master. It is also 

 used as a prefix to certain titles of 

 office, e.g. Mr. Speaker. The 

 feminine is mistress (q.v. ). The 

 French equivalent is monsieur, and 

 the German is herr. 



Misti, EL. Volcanic mt. of 

 Peru in the prov. of Arequipa. It 

 is situated a few miles N.E. of the 

 city of Arequipa. Alt. 19,200 ft. 



Mistletoe ( Viscum album). 

 Evergreen semi-parasitic shrub of 

 the natural order Loranthaceae. 

 Native of Europe and North 

 Asia, its stems vary in length 

 from a foot to four ft., and the 

 bark is yellow-green. The leathery 

 leaves are of the same colour, and 

 are oval-lance-shaped, mostly in 

 pairs. The inconspicuous green 

 flowers consist of four triangular 

 sepals, a similar number of anthers, 

 and an ovary with simple stigma. 

 The berries are white, a third of 

 an inch in diameter, with a single 

 seed invested by glutinous pulp. 

 The berries are eaten by birds, and 

 the seeds become attached to the 

 branches of trees by their agency. 

 On germination the embryo pierces 

 the bark and penetrates to the wood. 

 It draws most of its food from 

 the tree, but manufactures carbo- 

 hydrates in its leaves Its host- 





plants are very numerous, the 

 chief being black poplar and 

 apple in England and the plains 

 of France; but in Dauphine 

 and the Rhine valley it is most 

 abundant on Scots pine. Ameri- 

 can mistletoe, of which there 

 are several species, forms a distinct 

 genus. 



The mistletoe is prominent in 

 European folk-lore as a magical 

 plant credited with many virtues, 

 from giving the power to see 

 ghosts to healing diseases. See 

 Balder ; Druid ; Golden Bough. 



Mistral. Cold, dry wind expe- 

 rienced chiefly in winter along the 

 Rhone valley and the coasts of the 

 Lion gulf. A depression over the 



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Frederic Mistral, 

 Provencal poet 



Misti. 



View of the Peruvian volcano, showing the city 

 of Arequipa in the foreground 



Mediterranean, accompanied by 

 anti-clockwise circulation of the 

 air, brings down heavy cold air 



half of the 

 Nobel prize for 

 literature, and 

 devoted it to 

 the purchase of 

 a palace in 

 Aries in which 

 to house the 

 felibrean Mu- 

 seum. He died 

 March 25, 1914. 

 See Penseurs et 

 Poetes, G. Paris, 1896; Mistral, 

 C. A. Downer, 1901 ; Bibliographic 

 Mistralienne, E. Lefevre, 1903. 



Mistress. English title of re- 

 spect, the feminine of master, or 

 mister. In English, in the form 

 missis, abbreviated to Mrs., it is 

 '. the customary 

 I way of address- 

 j ing untitled 

 P^ j married women. 



.CSSfe... j It is also used for 



any woman in a 

 position of 

 authority, e.g. 

 the mistress of a 

 household, or the 

 in i st r e s s at a 

 school. Another 

 use is for a woman 

 who occupies the 

 place of wife, e.g. 

 history is full of 

 references to mistresses of kings. 

 The French equivalent is madame. 

 In Great Britain the mistress of 



from the central plateau of France the robes is an official of the 



as a N.W. wind, and causes a hot queen's household, the post being 



sirocco to blow from the African held by a peeress of high rank, 



coasts northward. See Bora; See Royal Household. 



Sirocco. 



Mistretta (anc. Amestratus, 



Mistral, FRDRIC (1830-1914). Amastra and Mytistratum). Town 



Proven 9al poet. The son of a of Sicily. It stands on the Regitano 



peasant, he was born Sept. 8, 1830, llm. by road S. of San Stefano di 



at Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhone. Camastfa on the coast rly. and 



After trying farming he turned to 61 m. E.S.E. of Palermo. Situated 



literature. His rustic epic, Mireio, at an alt. of 3,228 ft., it is on the 



1859, gave wide recognition to the only high road across the Monti 



movement for reviving Proven9al Nebrodi to Nicosia. Pop. 14,000. 



language and literature. It was 

 followed bv other notable works in 



Mitau OR MITAVA. _ Town of 

 Latvia. It stands on the Aa and 



Mistletoe. 



Spray of leaves and 

 berries 



the Proven9al language; Calendau, the Libau-Riga rly., 25 m. S.W. of 

 part legendary part allegorical, Riga. There is considerable trade 

 1867 ; and Lis Isclo d'Or (The in corn, flax, and timber. Founded 

 Golden Isles), a collection of his in 1271 by the Teutonic Order, it 



shortest poems, _. . _...,. , _._ 



1875. Later f 

 works were Nerto, 

 a light romantic 

 tale in verse, 

 1884; Lou 

 Pouemo don 

 Rouse, an epic 

 of the Rhone, 

 1897 ; and Moun 

 espelido, 1906, 

 translated into 

 English as 

 Memoirs of Mis- 

 tral, C. E. Maud. 



1907. In 1904 Mitau, Latvia. Castle formerly belonging to the grand 

 Mistral received , dukes of Courland 



