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MULLER 



tin- t,'un hull and other* 

 ! fur piiNu- liii-ini-.-w, are 



iii.iil.-ni. .Marhiiii-ry. textiles, glaas, 



lent lu-r. .mil /.me goods are inarm- 



fin tun .1. Thi-n- ^ a harbour, from 



u In h a gt>oddcal of ooal it) shipped. 



I'.,p. Ili'.oOO. 

 Mulhouse (Get. Miilhausen). 



Town . in Alsace. It 



MI tlio III, 56 m. S. by W. of 

 -bourg, and 

 is a centre of 

 the cotton 

 m anufucture. 

 Other indus- 

 tries include the 

 making of wool- 

 len goods, chem- 

 icals, machin- 

 ery, and hard- 

 ware, and there 



is U!M> a trade in wine and timber, 



which are sent along the 111 to the 



Klii in' The town has a medieval 



town hall, but few other memorials 



of its long history. 



Made a free city in 



1198, it was long a 



little rep u|b 1 i c 



leagued with 



Suit/.rrland, but 



in 1797 it was 



united with 



France. In 1871 



it passed, with tin 



rest of Alsace, to 



Germany. C a p- 



tured and lost by 



the French in 



Aug., 1914, it was 



restored to France 



in 1919. Just 



Mull. Sound or channel be- 



lui-i n tin- : -|. i in I of Mull and Mor- 

 \i-n p,-miiMila, Argyllshire, Scot- 

 1. 1 1 1' I There is beautiful scenery 

 along its shores. Its length is 

 20 m., and breadth from U to 

 :; miles. 



Mullah OR MOI.LAII. Mahome- 

 ,1 in t ' Tin for a teacher or scholar, 

 piirtii-ularly one learned in civil 

 and ecclesiastical law. It is also 

 applied to a mosque < fficer, and in 

 I mil. i is the usual term for a 

 Mahoiiu-dan schoolmaster. The 

 mil m ii,-r and fanaticism of the 

 so-called " mad Mullahs " have 

 caused serious disturbances in India 

 and Somaliland. The raids by the 

 leader of the rebel dervishes in the 

 latter country caused punitive ex- 

 peditions to be undertaken by the 

 British, 1901-5. He was reported 

 dead on many occasions after this, 

 the last being in July, 1921. See 

 Somaliland. 



outside Mulhouse 

 is a town for 



Mulhouse, Fiance. The medieval town hail, showing 

 covered entrance steps 



working men built by a former 

 mayor, J. H. Dollfus. Pop. 95,000. 

 See Alsace, Campaign in. 



Mulkear. River of Ireland. It 

 rises in two head streams one in 

 the W. of co. Tipperary and the 

 other almost wholly in co. Limer- 

 ickand flows N.W. for 32 m. to 

 the Shannon, which it enters 4 m. 

 above Limerick city. 



Mull. Name for a headland or 

 long promontory, derived from the 

 Gaelic. Examples of its use in 

 western Scotland are the mull of 

 Kintyre. and the mull of Galloway. 



Mull. Island of Argyllshire, 

 Scotland. It is 7 m. W. of Oban 

 and separated from the mainland 

 by the firth of Lome and the Sound 

 ol .Mull. The third largest of the 

 Western Islands, it has a moun- 

 tainous surface (Ben More, 3, 169 ft. ) 

 and a rugged and deeply indented 

 coast, fringed on the W. with a 

 number of smaller islands. Grazing 



Mullein OR AARON'S ROD ( Ver- 

 bascum thapsus). Biennial herb of 

 the natural order Scrophulariaceae, 

 native of Europe and N. and VV. 

 Asia. The first year it forms a 

 cluster of large, oval, lance-shaped, 

 very woolly leaves from 1 ft. to 18 

 ins. long. The second year a stout, 

 woolly, leafy stem 3 ft. high is sent 

 up, ending in a long spike of yellow 

 flowers. Formerly the wool from 

 leaves and stem was utilised for 

 lamp-wicks. See Aaron's Rod. 



Muller, FRANZ (1839 - 64). 

 Criminal of German parentage 

 executed for the murder of a Mr. 

 Briggs on the N. London Rly., 

 near Hackney Wick, July 9, 1864. 

 The murder, committed for the 

 sake of robbery, was the first 

 murder on an English rly. The 

 government and the employers of 

 the murdered man both offered 

 substantial rewards for the dis- 

 covery of the criminal. The latter 



is the principal industry. There are had inadvertently exchanged hats 

 a number of picturesque glens and with bis victim, and this furnished 



fresh water lochs. Tobermory, in 

 the N., is the chief town. Length 

 30 m.. breadth 29 m. Pop. 3,800. 



a clue. He was arrested in New 

 York in a sailing vessel in which 

 he had Bed, brought back for 



trial, found guilty, and execu- 

 ted Nov. 14. 1864. The murderer 

 cut down Mr. Briggs' top bat, and 

 a top hat with a low crown WM 

 long known as a Muller hat 

 Muller, FRIEDBICH MAX. See 



M:. Mullrr. 



Muller, GBOKOE (1805-98). 



I'.iiii-h philanthropist. l'.ni near 

 Halberstadt, Germany, Sept. 27, 

 1805, he was 

 educated in 

 Germany. In 

 1829 he came 

 England 

 with a view 

 to becoming a 

 missionary to 

 the Jews, but 

 in 1830 under- 



George Muller, took a pastor - 

 British philanthi jpist ate at Teign- 

 niouth. Devon, becoming a natural- 

 ised British subject. He practised 

 there the ideals hefollowedthrough- 

 out his life, trusting to prayer to 

 supply material wants. He went to 

 Bristol, where he started a very 

 prosperous orphanage. Soon he 

 had over 2,000 children under his 

 care, and later erected five large 

 buildings to house them at Ashley- 

 down. His book. The Lord's Deal- 

 ings with George Muller, greatly 

 helped him to obtain funds. He 

 died at Bristol, March 10, 1898. 

 See George Muller of Bristol, A. T 

 Pierson, 6th ed. 1901. 



Muller, JOHANNES (1801-58). 

 German physiologist. Born at 

 Coblenz, July 14, 1801, he was edu 

 cated at Bonn, 

 where he 

 studied physio- 

 logy. In 182(i 

 he was made 

 professor o f 

 physiology 

 there, and in 

 1833 his repu 

 tation won for 

 him a like Johannes Muller. 

 position at German physiologist 

 Berlin. His important contribu- 

 tions to our knowledge of the com- 

 plex mechanism of the human body 

 have caused him to be regarded as 

 the founder of modern physiology. 

 He died April 28, 1858. Muller's 

 chief work, Handbook of Human 

 Phvsiology, has been translated 

 into English by W. Baly, 1840-49. 



Muller, KARL OTFRIKD (1797- 

 1840). German archaeologist. Born 

 at Brieg, Silesia, Aug. 28, 1797, he 

 studied at Breslau and Berlin, be- 

 coming professor of archaeology at 

 Gottingen, 1819. Proceeding to 

 Italy, 1839, and Greece, 1840, he 

 examined ancient Athens, and 

 began excavation at Delphi. He 

 recast Hellenic and Etruscan study 

 by utilising modern result*. 

 There arc English translations ol 



