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# The Laxdaela Saga/Chapter I

Ketill Flatnose was the name of a man. He was the son of Bjorn the Ungartered. Ketill was a mighty and high-born chieftain (hersir) in Norway. He abode in Raumsdale, within the folkland of the Raumsdale people, which lies between Southmere and Northmere. Ketill Flatnose had for wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketill Wether, who was a man of exceeding great worth. They had five children; one was named Bjorn the Eastman, and another Helgi Bjolan. Thorunn the Horned was the name of one of Ketill’s daughters, who was the wife of Helgi the Lean, son of Eyvind Eastman, and Rafarta, daughter of Kjarval, the Irish king. Unn “the Deepminded” was another of Ketill’s daughters, and was the wife of Olaf the White, son of Ingjald, who was son of Frodi the Valiant, who was slain by the Svertlings. Jorunn, “Men’s Witbreaker,” was the name of yet another of Ketill’s daughters. She was the mother of Ketill the Finn, who settled on land at Kirkby. His son was Asbjorn, father of Thorstein, father of Surt, the father of Sighat the Speaker-at-Law.
# The Laxdaela Saga/Chapter III

After that Ketill made a great feast, and at it he married his daughter Thorunn the Horned to Helgi the Lean, as has been said before. After that Ketill arrayed his journey west over the sea. Unn, his daughter, and many others of his relations went with him. That same summer Ketill's sons went to Iceland with Helgi, their brother-in-law. Bjorn, Ketill's son, brought his ship to the west coast of Iceland, to Broadfirth, and sailed up the firth along the southern shore, till he came to where a bay cuts into the land, and a high mountain stood on the ness on the inner side of the bay, but an island lay a little way off the land. Bjorn said that they should stay there for a while. Bjorn then went on land with a few men, and wandered along the coast, and but a narrow strip of land was there between fell and foreshore. This spot he thought suitable for habitation. Bjorn found the pillars of his temple washed up in a certain creek, and he thought that showed where he ought to build his house. Afterwards Bjorn took for himself all the land between Staff-river and Lavafirth, and abode in the place that ever after was called Bjornhaven. He was called Bjorn the Eastman. His wife, Gjaflaug, was the daughter of Kjallak the Old. Their sons were Ottar and Kjallak, whose son was Thorgrim, the father of Fight-Styr and Vermund, but the daughter of Kjallak was named Helga, who was the wife of Vestar of Eyr, son of Thorolf "Bladder-skull", who settled Eyr. Their son was Thorlak, father of Steinthor of Eyr. Helgi Bjolan brought his ship to the south of the land, and took all Keelness, between Kollafirth and Whalefirth, and lived at Esjuberg to old age. Helgi the Lean brought his ship to the north of the land, and took Islefirth, all along between Mastness and Rowanness, and lived at Kristness. From Helgi and Thorunn all the Islefirthers are sprung.
# The Laws of Jamaica, passed in 1867

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1867.
Published by Authority
JAMAICA: GEO, HENDERSON & CO., GOVERNMENT PRINTERS, KINGSTON,
# The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall

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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL
John Thomas, Esq.
VICE WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES OF CORNWALL.
Sir, I dedicate to your Worship, without scruple or apology, a Collection of Laws relating for the most part, to that Court, in which, for upwards of Twenty Years, you have presided with so much ability. To no one else could it be inscribed without manifest injustice.
The scarcity of the Edition published by Authority of the last Convocation, first prompted ​me to undertake the work; and I was further influenced by the hope that an Appendix, with copious Index and some other Additions might render the Laws more generally useful.
That my humble, but well-meant endeavours, may meet with your worship's Approbation, is the ardent wish of,
WORSHIPFUL SIR, YOUR MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, J. T.
Turo 1st. January, 1808.
# The Lawyers' Ways

* "The Lawyers' Ways", published in Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)
* "The Lawyers' Ways", published in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913)
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Laws of Jamaica, passed in 1867/A Table of All the Public Laws

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T A B L E
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ALL THE PUBLIC LAWS:
CONTAINING
The Titles of those passed between the 5th January and the 16th December, 1867, in the thirtieth and Thirty-First Years of the Reign of Queen Victoria.
ANNO 30 VICTORIÆ, 1867.
Assented to 5th January, 1167]
[Assented to 11th February, 1867.]
[Assented to 11th, February, 1867.]
[Assented to 26th, February, 1867.]
[Assented to 12th March, 1867.]
[Assented to 19th March, 1867]
[Assented to 27th March, 1867.]
[Assented to 29th March, 1867.]
[Assented to 2d April, 1867.]
[Assented to 13th April, 1867.]
[Assented to 23rd April, 1867.]
[Assented to 17th May, 1867.]
[Assented to 5th June, 1867.]
[Assented to 18th April, 1867.]
[Assented to 28th June, 1867.]
[Assented to 16th July, 1867.]
[Assented to 13th August, 1867.]
[Assented to 6th September, 1867.]
[Assented to 11th October, 1867.]
[Assented to 15th October, 1867.]
[Assented to 16th December, 1867.]
# The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon.
* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, published in 1864.
* "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in Weird Tales, 12 (5) (November 1928)
# The Legend of Jubal

* "The Legend of Jubal" New York: Lovell. c. 1881
* "The Legend of Jubal", The poems of George Eliot. Complete edition [illustrated]. New York: Crowell. 1884.
# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/Robert Macaire & Bertrand

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Robert Macaire & Bertrand
The latest production of George Méliès consists of a series of twenty-five scenes from the play so well known to old theater-goers, and illustrates the clever antics of those two French sneak-theives and hoboes, and their escapades in the inn, with the police after them, whom they lead some merry antics. The following are the scenes represented:
1, The Sneak-Thieves' Inn; 2, The International Bank; 3, The Interior of the Bank; 4, Behind the Scenes; 5, The Costume Room; 6, A Statue as an Accomplice; 7, The Railway Station; 8, A Small Way-Station; 9, A Terrific Earthquake; 10, The Market-Place; 11, Hurled into the Clouds; 12, Planted on the Roofs; 15, Played Out; 16, The Farm; 17, the Murder of the Dummy; 18, The Death of the Two Heroes; 19, Resurrection; 20, The Balloon; 21, The Kidnapping of a "Cop"; 22, The Start; 23, In the Air; 24, The Balloon-Car; 25, The Column of the Bastille.
This film is as fine a specimen of a trick film that has been produced, showing great ingenuity and conception.
# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/A New Use for Moving Pictures

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A NEW USE FOR MOVING PICTURES
The First Baptist Church of Gardner, Mass., is crowded every night to hear the well-known evangelist, the Rev. Morril Twin. The whole city is stirred and the people are discussing religion on the streets and in the stores. There are stereopticon views every night, with moving pictures, and a mammoth graphophone entertains the audience from 7 to 7:30 every night.
# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/A Plea for Fair Treatment of the Operator

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A PLEA FOR FAIR TREATMENT OF THE OPERATOR
The Editor of Moving Picture World:
What is an operator? A machine, a slave, a dog to be kicked, or a man to whom some consideration should be shown? We have in mind two types of operators, how they were treated, and the results. One class were working for a firm, and were treated as though they were serfs. We first noticed some fifteen or eighteen youths varying from seventeen to twenty years of age waiting in a corridor on Saturday at 2, and asked one, "What was doing?" "Oh," said he, "we are waiting for the dough, and have been here since 12 o'clock, waiting the boss's pleasure." While doing our business there was a scuffle, a fall, and some hearty laughter; when one of the principals of the firm went into the corridor and railed at these youths, with some of the vilest language ever heard outside Hades, thoroughly cowing and frightening all the fun out of them, threatening to keep them another two hours before he paid them their stipends of from eight to ten dollars, which he ultimately did do, they getting away about 4:15 o'clock. Now, note the sequel! We met one of these youths during the week, and commiserated with him. He said: "Oh, that's nothing; we are used to that. But I got even with him." "How?" we naturally asked. "Why, I cracked three condensors, scratched about 60 or 70 feet of film with a file, and took a $40 job off the boss to So-and-so, with whom I am going to work on Monday next." There he was better treated, and, we believe, is doing well. We tried to argue about the principal and the morality of the matter, showing there was no justification for being so spiteful. It was all in vain. He made up his mind to get even according to his light; and he got it. He was treated like no human being ought to be treated; and, like a dog who has been whipped without cause, when his master turned his back he snarled and bit his heel.
Now a brighter picture. A friend of ours who has held his present position for some years, speaking of his experiences, said his employer made it worth while to keep everything spick and span. He received a commission on all repeat orders he secured, and he often sold his machine outright at the place of exhibition. He never had a quarrel or harsh word all the time he had been em​ployed, and at Christmas he and three others received substantial cash bonuses as gifts. He remarked that it was a pleasure to do the work, and it was worth while to make sacrifices and put himself to inconvenience sometimes, if the success of the exhibition demanded it, well knowing that his (and his colleague's) efforts were fully appreciated by their employer, who make their interests his, thus securing better service and more careful operators.
These are two extremes, mayhap. All are not alike, we know; but if the happy medium is stuck it will tend to improve the status of the operator, save the machines, give a longer lease of life to the films, and a great trustworthiness all round.
An Operator Who Runs His Own Show
# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/Edison vs. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

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Edison vs. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
The litigation which has been going on for some years against the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, under the Edison moving picture camera patent, was brought to a close, March 6, by a decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The Court, in an exhaustive opinion, finds that the Mutoscope Company's biograph camera, which is the camera principally used by that company in its business and covered by patents owned and controlled by it, is not the "type of apparatus described and shown in the Edison patents involved in this suit and is not an infringement"; but that all other commercial forms of camera now in use embodying the sprocket movement engaging with a perforated film are within the scope of the Edison patent.
The effect of this decision, which is final, leaves the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company undisturbed in its right to use its own form of camera, which is fully protected by its patents and is the only practical form of camera described by the Court to be outside the Edison patent, so that the business of manufacturing moving picture films will, as the result of this litigation, be confined to the American Mutoscope and Biograph and the Edison companies.
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# The Moving Picture World/Volume 1/Number 1/Fights of Nations

A description of Fights of Nations, a film released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1907. The film itself can be viewed at the website of the Library of Congress.
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Fights of Nations
Affairs of Honor a la Mode Portrayed by the Biograph
Our latest production, under six titles, represents various types and nationalities, with comedy and tragedy consistently intermingled. Every scene is beautifully staged and each nationality well represented.
"Mexico vs. Spain," the first scene, shows the rejected Mexican suitor, in a jealous rage, watching the lovemaking between Carlos, the Spaniard, his hated rival, and the beautiful senorita. With drawn stiletto he pounces upon the Don, but the senorita seizes his arm, thus saving her lover from a horrible death. After a terrific hand-to-hand encounter, the Don has the point of vantage over the Mexican, but through the pleadings of the girl releases him and bids him go. Next is shown two of "Our Hebrew Friends," in a characteristic battle—all talk, but no blows. A third Hebrew is drawn into the argument, in the heat of which a policeman appears and threatens to arrest them. The third Hebrew is made the innocent victim. He offers the officer a bribe of a roll of money, which is accepted, but the Jew steals it back. Then follows "A Scottish Combat"—a broadsword engagement between two of America's leading actors in Scotch costumes, showing how quick and accurate these ​weapons can be handled. A comedy scene, "Sunny Africa," takes place in a concert hall on Eighth avenue, New York, frequented by the colored element. Buck dancing, cake walking, etc., are indulged in. The bully resents the attentions paid to his sweetheart by a dusky gentleman. Immediately razors are drawn, and the affair winds up in a rough house. In "Sons of the Ould Sod" we show a laughable scrap between Haggerty and Fogarty, caused by the accidental dropping of a wet sheet by Mrs. Haggerty from her window upon the head of Fogarty. The men battle furiously, until that soothing balm to hurt feelings—beer—is proffered by the ever-thoughtful Mrs. Haggerty. "America" then serves as an appropriate finale. The scene is magnificently decorated with emblems of all nations, the American eagle surmounting them. In harmony, peace and good-will the characters of the different nations appear, making it an allegorical representation of "Peace," with Uncle Sam presiding at a congress of the Powers.
# The Mystery of Words/Part 2

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# The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

A mystery fiction novel, first published in Australia in 1886. Set in Melbourne, the story focuses on the investigation of a homicide involving a body discovered in a hansom cab, as well as an exploration into the social class divide in the city. The book was successful in Australia, then in Britain and the United States and went on to sell over 500,000 copies worldwide, outselling the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, A Study in Scarlet (1887).
ALPHA LIBRARY.
The Mystery of a
Hansom Cab
By
Fergus W. Hume.
Chicago and New York:
Rand, McNally & Company,
Publishers.
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
* Chapter 32
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 34
* Chapter 35
# The New International Encyclopædia/Mishawaka

Edition of 1905. See also Mishawaka, Indiana on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
MISHAWAKA, mīsh'ȧ-wa̤'ka. A town in Saint Joseph County, Ind., four miles east of South Bend, the county-seat; on the Saint Joseph River, and on the Chicago and Grand Trunk, the Elkhart and Western, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads (Map: Indiana, C 1). It has good water power from the river, and is noted as a manufacturing centre, the products including windmills, heavy machinery, pulleys, agricultural implements, furniture, church organs and furniture, gasoline engines and launches, paper pulp, flour, and knit felt, and felt boots and rubbers. The government is administered under a charter of 1899, which provides for a mayor, chosen every two years, and a unicameral council. The city owns and operates the water-works and electric light plant. One of the oldest cities in northern Indiana, Mishawaka was settled in 1828 and was incorporated in 1834 as “Saint Joseph Iron Works,” the change to its present name being authorized by special legislative act in 1838. Population, in 1890, 3371; in 1900, 5560.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Missi

See also Missus dominicus on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​MISSI (Lat., those sent). Officials sent out by the Frankish kings for special purposes. Under Charles the Great the missi dominici were the Emperor’s special representatives. The Empire was divided into a number of districts; into each district each year two missi, one a lay noble, the other an officer of the Church, were sent to hold court, hear complaints, redress grievances, and make a special report to the Emperor. By this means Charles sought to control the counts and to centralize the government. The enquêteurs, employed by Saint Louis, had similar functions. Consult Adams, Civilization During the Middle Ages (New York, 1894).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Miquel, Johannes von

Edition of 1905. See also Johannes von Miquel on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
MIQUEL, mḗ-kĕl', Johannes von (1829-1901). A German statesman, born in Neuenhaus, Hanover, of a family of French émigrés, and educated for the bar at Heidelberg and Göttingen. In his student days he was a rabid revolutionist and something of a Socialist, but when the period of reaction set in he soon forsook his earlier sentiments. His practice in Göttingen was very successful, and in 1864 he was elected a member of the Hanoverian Diet, and in 1865 Burgomaster of Osnabrück. Removing to Berlin in 1870, he was a director of the Diskontogesellschaft until 1873, and then president of its advisory board until 1876. Then he was again made Chief Burgomaster of Osnabrück, and in 1880 of Frankfort-on-the-Main. But his greater field of usefulness was in the Prussian House of Deputies and in the Imperial Diet. There, as in the Prussian House of Lords, of which he was ex-officio a member as Burgomaster of Frankfort, he was a leader of the National Liberal Party and one of Bismarck's most able and forceful lieutenants. In 1890 he became Prussian Minister of Finance, and was hailed as the ‘Emperor's man,’ no doubt to reassure the country in face of its fear that the new Imperial policy was to be merely reactionary. In this office, which Miquel held up to a few months before his death, he showed himself an able financier, and a bold reformer in his attempt to liberate the Imperial Treasury from depending on the contributions of the various States. As a politician he was an opportunist driven to intrigue with any party and, above all, to any sacrifice of conviction to the policy of the Kaiser, in the hope that he might be made Chancellor. But if he was unsuccessful in his programme of Imperial finance, in his more proper sphere of Prussian finance, by playing somewhat into the hands of the Agrarian Party, he secured the adoption of a new tax system, which greatly benefited the working classes and at the same time tremendously increased the revenue. On his Prussian policy, consult: Zedlitz und Neukirch, “Miquel als Finanz- und Staatsminister,” in Preussische Jahrbücher (1901).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Mishmis

Edition of 1905. See also Mishmi people on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
MISH'MIS. The natives of the Mishmi Hills in the valley of the Brahmaputra in Northeastern India. By language they are related to the adjacent peoples of Indo-China (Chins, Shans, Lushai, etc.). These primitive tribes are very interesting from a sociological point of view. Among them the custom that the favorite child (without respect to age) inherits prevails. The marriage customs are also peculiar. Consult: Cooper, The Mishmee Hills (London, 1873); Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal (Calcutta, 1872).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Mishna

Edition of 1905. See also Mishnah on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
MISH′NA (Heb., explanation, from shānah, to learn). The body of the ‘oral law,’ or the juridico-political, civil, and religious code of the Jews. As such it forms a kind of complement to the Pentateuchal codes, which it explains, amplifies, and immutably fixes in accordance with traditional usage, enforced by the application of the peculiar exegetical methods developed in the rabbinical schools of Babylonia and Palestine. The Misnnaic laws were subsequently submitted to a process of exposition similar to that which the biblical enactments underwent, and hence there arose, as a supplement to the Mishna, the Gemara (q.v.), embodying the discussions on the Mishna by the rabbis of Babylonia and Palestine from the third to the
sixth century, when the Mishna and the Gemara were brought together in a final compilation known as the Talmud. The Mishna, to which again there are ‘apocryphal’ supplements known as Toseftas (additions) and Baraithas (extras), was finally redacted, after some earlier incomplete collections by Rabbi Jehudah, called Hanasi (c.200 A.D.), at Tiberias. It is mostly written in pure Hebrew, and is divided into six portions (Sedarim): (1) Zeraim (seeds), on benedictions, agriculture, tithes, etc.; (2) Moed (feast), on the Sabbath, festivals, and fasts; (3) Nashim (women), on marriage, divorce, etc. (embracing also the laws on the Nazirship and vows); (4) Nezikin (damages), chiefly civil and penal laws (also containing the ethical treatise Aboth); (5) Kodashim (sacred things), sacrifices, etc.; description of the Temple of Jerusalem, etc.; (6) Tcharoth (purifications) on pure and impure things and persons. (See further Talmud.) An English translation of the Mishna has been published by J. Barclay (London, 1878).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Missing Link

See also Missing link (human evolution) on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​MISSING LINK. A term used to designate the stage assumed to intervene in evolution between the ape and man, and in a more general sense any hypothetical form intermediate between two actual forms of life.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Mir

Edition of 1905. See also Obshchina on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
MIR, mēr (Russ., OChurch Slav. mirŭ, union, peace, world, Lith. mers, Alb. mir, peace). The name of the civil communities of the Russian peasants. All land is held in common and is
divided, usually according to the number of males at the last census, being redistributed whenever necessary. Each family receives meadow, forest, and arable land, the meadow being sometimes kept in common and only the grass divided. The mir, or village commune, as a body is assessed for taxes by the Central Government, and the burden of taxation is distributed among the heads of families, according to the amount of land occupied by each. Each mir is self-governing with elected officers, and adjoining mirs may be grouped in volasts or small cantons. The system is very old, but is gradually changing, as a mir may now go over to private ownership of land and inheritance of property on vote of two-thirds of its members. Consult: Wallace, Russia (London, 1877); Keussler, Zur Geschichte und Kritik des bäuerlichen Gemeindebesitzes in Russland (Saint Petersburg, 1876-87).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Misrule, Lord of

See also Lord of Misrule on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
​MISRULE, Lord of. A mock dignitary who presided over the Christmas revels of the Middle Ages. He was assisted by a staff of from twenty to sixty officials, and furnished with musicians, dragons, hobby-horses, and other paraphernalia of fun. In Scotland he was sometimes known as the Abbot of Unreason, in France as l'Abbé de Liesse. See Abbot of Joy.