MILLIGAN. 517 MILLS. Chase, in which three other justices concurred. The decision is given in Walluce's Reports, vol. iv. See M]I.tt,ry Law; Makti.vl Law. MILLIGAN, William (1821-9.3). A minis- ter of the Established Church of Scotland, born ill Edinburgh. He was educated at the L'liiver- sity of Saint Andrews (IS-SO). lie stood by the •Ai'ild Kirk' at the disruiition (184,3). and was ordained minister to the Parish of Cameron, Eife, I lie following year. He studied in (Jermaiiy from 1S45 to 1846*, and was placed at Kileonquhar from 1850 until 1860, when he was asked to occupy the newly created chair of biblical criti- cism in Aberdeen University. He assisted in llie revision of the New Testament in 1870, and published works on the Uiijlur Educalion of ^'omcn (1878); The Reaurreclion of Our Lord (1S81) ; Commentary on the Revelation (1883) ; Hiiird Leelures on the Revelation of Saint John (188t)) ; Elijah (1887) : The Resiirreetion of the Dead (1890) : and Aims of the Scottish Church Soeietii (1892) ; besides a notable article for the EiHi/clopcFdia Britannica on the Epistle to the Ephesians (1879). He was sent to the United States Presbyterian General Assembly (1872) as a delegate from the corresponding body in Scot- land. MILLIN", me'laN', Aubin Lotns (1759-1818). A French archseologist, born in Paris. His fir.st literary attempts were translations from the Ger- man and English, which were published in the MHanges de litteratiire etrangere (178.'5-86). His protest against the excesses of the Revolution made it necessary for him to fly from Paris, and lie was imprisoned for a year in Saint Lazare on his return. In 1795 he was placed in charge of the cabinet of antiques and medals in the National Library, was instrumental in the creation of a chair of antiquities, and the same year under- took the direction of the Mayaziii Encijetoi>cdiiiue. Jluch of his voluminous writing on his special subject appeared in this periodical, which, in 1817. became the Annates Encyclopediques, and he publisbed also Antiques nationales (1790-98) ; Introduction a I'ctude des medailles (1790): Monuments antiques inedits (1802-04); Diction- nuire des beaux-arts (1806) ; and flistoire metal- lique de la Revolution fr<ini;aisc (1S0(!), His travels in Italy and the south of France in search of antiques provided material for Voyage dans les d/partements du midi de la. France (1807-11); Peintures de l^ases antiques (1808- 10; new ed. 1891) ; and Voyage en Savoie, au t'ii'iiiont. <l,mx Ir Milniidis (1816-17). MILLING MACHINE. See JIetal-Work- ixi; Machinery. MIL'LIPEDE. A myriapod of the order Chi- lognatha (or Diplopoda) having a dorsally convex body composed of many segments, all of which, except the first four, bear each two pairs of legs; and lacking inaxillipes. See Centipede; Mykia- PODA. MIL'LIS, John (1858—). An American offi- cer of engineers, bom at Wheatland. Mich. He graduated, with first rank, from the United States ililitary Aeademv in 1881, and served at 'illet's Point. N. Y. (1881-83), and on light- house duty, especiallv in experiments with elec- tric lighting (1*583-90). IMillis was charged with the preparation of the lighting of the Bartholdi Statue in New York Harbor. From 1890 to 1894 he managed Federal improvements in the Mississippi levees and New Orleans harbor; then for four years was chief engineer of the Light- house Boaril; and in 1900 was delegate to elec- trical, physical, and navigation congresses in Paris during the Exposition, and was sent to Egypt to report on the Assuan dam. After his return to .merica lie was ordered to Seattle to construct fortilications in Puget Sound and tiov- ernment improvements in Vashington, Idaho, and ilontana. He was promoted to be major of engineers in 1900. MILLOCKEK, mil'le-ker, Karl (1842-99). An Austrian composer of light opera. He was born in Vienna and received his musical education in the Conservatory of that city. In 1864 he was appointed kapellmeister at the Gratz Theatre and from 1869 to 18S3 occiqiied a similar posi- tion at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. His music is marked by its spontaneous melodiousness and sprightly instrumentation. The principal pub- lished works include: Der todte Gust and Die heiden Binder (1865) ; Diana. (1867) ; Die Frau- eninsel (1878); Der Regimentstamhour (1869); Drei Paar Schuhe (1870) ; Die Musik des Teufels (1870); Das veru-unschcne Schloss (1878); A pa June, der Waxscrmann (1880); Die Jung- fraii von Belleville (1881); Der Bettelstudcnt (1881); Gasparone (1884); Der Viceadniirul (1886) ; Die siehen Schwahen (1887) ; Der arme Jonathan (1890); Das Sonntagskind (1892); Der Probekuss (1895) ; and Das Nordlicht (1897). MILTliOM. A town in Cumberland, England, nine miles northwest of Barrow. It is situated on the west coast of Duddon Sands, and has a shallow tidal harbor (Jlap: England, C 2). The most productive mines of red hematite ore in England are worked in the vicinity, and it has numerous blast furnaces. Municipal enter- prise is particularly active. The town owns its markets, water and gas works, and maintains a library, technical schools, recreation grounds, and isolation hospital. Population, in 1891, 8900; in 1901, 10,400. MILLO MAIZE. A cereal grain. See Sor- ghum, paragraph yon-Saccharine. MILL ON THE FLOSS, The. A novel by fJeorge Flliot (18001. It is the story of English working jieople. The heroine. Maggie Tulliver, daughter of the miller, is a girl of rich, pas- sionate nature, restless and unhappy in her narrow life. Thwarted in her first love for Philip, she becomes infatuated with Stephen Guest, and is about to elope with him. Her imprudence is followed by niisoiy, and she and her brother Tom are drowned in the flood of the river Floss. Tlie gloom of the story is relieved by touches of homely humor. MILLS, Albert Leopold ( 1854— ) . An American soldier, born in New York City. He graduated at the United States ^Military Academy in 1879, was appointed second lieuten- ant of the First Cavalry, was stationed at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory (1879-82), and engaged in frontier duty elsewhere. He saw- active sei-vice against the Crows in 1887 and against the Sioux in 1890. He was professor of military science and tactics at the State Academy. Charleston, S. C, for a year (1886- 87). held an appointment at the United States Infantry and Cavalry School. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas! from 1894 until 1898, and in the Span-
