. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. parasites are among the downy mil-dews. They are difficult to destroy, butspraying the affected plant with Bordeauxmixture is helpful. Dry sulphur or thefumes of boiling sulphur will check pow-ders* mildews. MILE, the unit of linear measure for longdistances. It originated with the Romans,with whom a mile {millmre) was the dis-tance of 1,000 paces of five Roman feet same measure has been adopted verygenerally bj all the world,
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. parasites are among the downy mil-dews. They are difficult to destroy, butspraying the affected plant with Bordeauxmixture is helpful. Dry sulphur or thefumes of boiling sulphur will check pow-ders* mildews. MILE, the unit of linear measure for longdistances. It originated with the Romans,with whom a mile {millmre) was the dis-tance of 1,000 paces of five Roman feet same measure has been adopted verygenerally bj all the world, although itslength varies, and naturally different namesare employed because of varying statute mile of England, the UnitedStates, Canada and Australia contains 320rods of feet each, or 5,280 feet. Anautical mile is the one-sixtieth part of adegree of latitude of a sphere of the size ofthe earth, or feet; a nautical mile istherefore equal to |- statute miles. In the following table the mile of va-rious countries, in terms used locally, is com-pared in length with the American mile of5,280 feet: MILES 2330 MILITARY ACADEMY. English statute mile 1. English geographical mile French kilometer ., German geographical mile Russian verst Dutch ure Norwegian mile Swedish mile 4 Austrian mile Danish mile Swiss stunde MILES, Nelsox Appleton (1839- ).an Auierican soldier, born at Westminster,Mass. He entered the Federal army in 18G1and Avas promoted through all the giades tobe major the CivilWar he conductedseveral Indian cam-paigns in the Avestnotably thatagainst theApaches underGeronimo in succeeded tothe full commandof the UnitedStates army in1895 and was insupreme controlduring the Span--ish-American War. In 1900 he was raised tothe rank of lieutenant-general and retiredthree years later. In 1905 he accepted a tem-porary appointment as commandant of theMassachusetts militia on
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