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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS 358 MUSLIN and on the Pere Marquette, the Grand Rapids, and Indiana, the Grand Trunk and interurban railroads. Its harbor is one of the best on the lake, and steam- boats daily ply between it and Chicago, Milwaukee, and other lake ports. Here are the Hackley Manual Training School, MUSKDEER Hackley Public Library, hospitals, sev- eral National banks, electric lights, street railroads, county court house, and sev- eral daily and weekly newspapers. It has large lumbering interests, tanneries, woolen mills, marble and granite works, furniture factories, a piano factory, en- gine and boiler shops, iron and steel works, large celery farms, etc. Pop. (1910) 24,062; (1920) 36,570. MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, a town in Muskegon co., Mich. It is on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, also on the Grand Rapids and Muskegon railway, the Grand Trunk and the Pere Mar- quette. Pop. (1910) 1,690; (1920) 9,514. MUSKINGUM COLLEGE, an educa- tional institution in New Concord, O.; founded in 1837 under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church; re- ported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16 ; students, 475 ; vol- umes in the library, 9,000; endowment, $290,000; grounds and buildings valued at $300,000; income, $80,000. President, J. K. Montgomery. MUSKINGUM RIVER, the chief river of eastern Ohio. It is formed by the junction of the Walhondin and Tus- carawas rivers and flows in a S. E. direction for 112 miles, through an im- portant agricultural region. It empties into the Ohio river at Marietta. The river is navigable for about 100 miles from its mouth. MUSKMELON (Cuciimis melo), a delicious melon of a musky fragrance, much liked in the United States. See Melon. MUSKOGEE, a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Muskogee co., about 130 miles E. of Oklahoma City. It is situated on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas; the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Mid- land Valley, and the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Gulf I'ailroads. It has important public buildings, including a handsome post office, a high school, a library, and several clubs. There is also an excellent system of public parks. It contains the St. Joseph College, the Spaulding Female Institute, and the Oklahoma Woman's College. Its industries include hardware, factories, railroad shops, steel works, oil- well supply works, and cotton goods fac- tories. It is surrounded by important agricultural and stock-raising region. Oil and natural gas are found in abundance. It has the commission form of govern- ment, adopted in 1910. Pop. (1910) 25,278; (1920) 30,277. MUSKOKA, lake and islet region of Ontario, Canada, on Muskoka river. Area covering over 4,000 square miles includes nearly 1,000 lakes interspersed with hundreds of islets, surrounded by forest scenery. Summer visitors crowd to the resort for bathing, boating, and fishing. MUSK OX (Ovibos Tnoschatus), con- sidered by some naturalists to be a con- necting link between the sheep and the ox, whence its generic name. It is found in herds of from 10 to 30, in Arctic America N. of lat. 60°. It is covered with brown hair, nearly a yard in length, and a thick woolly under fur. MUSKRAT, a name common to several rodents having little in common except the secretion of a musky substance, or the diffusion of a musky odor; specifically Fiber zibethicus, a beaver-like water rat. The toes are webbed, and the tail is flattened laterally. They inhabit the banks of lakes and rivers in this country, and construct dwellings somewhat re- sembling small haystacks. Their coloring is so much like that of the muddy banks on which they dwell, that they have been often mistaken for lumps of mud till their movements betrayed them. They are hunted for their fur, which is much valued. Called also musquash and ondatra. MUSLIN, a bleached or unbleached thin cotton cloth, white, printed, or dyed.