MILYUKOFF 239 MIMOSA Manufactures. — Milwaukee is an im- portant manufacturing center. Iron and steel products are its most important in- dustry. There are over 100 establish- ments manufacturing iron, steel and heavy machinery. The value of the product is over $160,000,000 annually. Its flour mills are very large, often hav- ing a daily output of 10,000 barrels, and its grain elevators have a capacity of 9,735,000 bushels. Pork-packing is here carried on extensively. The other indus- tries include manufactories of leather, machinery, iron and steel goods, tobacco, clothing, stoves, and tinware, brick, fur- naces, cars, steel and malleable iron. There are over 3,600 large factories, and the total value of the manufactured prod- ucts in 1918 was $741,188,557. Education. — The city has 9 high schools, and many other school buildings used for grammar, primary, and kindergarten schools. In 1919 the enrollment was 53,- 441. The expenditures for education were $2,325,480. The institutions of higher education include a State Normal School, the Milwaukee College for Women, the Marquette (R. C), the Catholic Semi- nary of St. Francis de Sales, the Convent de Notre Dame, and Concordia College (Luth.). Finances. — The assessed valuations in 1919 were: Real estate, $419,074,285 ; per- sonal property, $102,164,840; tax rate, $20.74 per $1,000; net debt, $14,730,750. History. — Milwaukee was founded in 1835, and chartered as a city in 1846. The first white settler on the site of the city was Juneau, a French fur trader, who came here in 1817, when the place was a Pottawattamie village. The growth of the city has been very rapid. The Germans who make up one-half of the population have everjr^here left their influence upon the social life of the in- habitants. MILYUKOFF, PAUL NIKOLAIE- VITCH, Russian historian and publicist, born near Petrograd, in 1859. Graduat- ing from Moscow University, he taught for some years, then became involved in a revolutionary movement, which com- pelled him to flee abroad. After a brief period as professor of Slavic history in the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, he came to America and was for three years a member of the faculty of Chicago Uni- versity. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where he became engaged in politics and assumed the leadership of the Constitu- tional Democratic party, more popularly known as "the Cadets." He was also prominent as a journalist and founded the ne-wspaper "Retch." After the revo- lution of March, 1917, when he was a member of the Duma, he became Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of the Provisional Government. Incurring the displeasure of the radical elements, because of his advocacy of Russian ex- PAUL NIKOLAIEVITCH MILYUKOFF pansion in the direction of Constanti- nople, he was forced to resign. After the second revolution, which placed the Bolsheviki in power, he became a refugee abroad, and was later one of the body of Russians who urged the Allied countries to adopt an anti-Bolshevik policy. MIME, a kind of farce or dramatic representation among the Greeks and Romans, in which incidents of real life were represented in a ludicrous or far- cical fashion. MIMEOGRAPH (mim'e-o-) , an instru- ment by which copies of any document may be transcribed and multiplied, through the use of a stencil made of thin paper prepared with paraflfine or similar substance, which is put upon an ordinary typewriting machine, and receives the impression of the letters in the ordinary way. MIMOSA, the typical genus of the sub-order Mimoseae and the tribe Eumi- moseae. As constituted by Linnaeus, it included the Acacia and nearly all the other genera of the modern sub-order Mimosse. About 200 are known, the majority from America, the rest from India and Africa. They are prickly herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing; the leaves are bipinnate, and in some species
