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MTJNDELLA. 108 MTJNGO. a tirm in Xottingliain. ami he prosjiercd in the biij^iiU'BS. He was iii:-lruiiieiital in forming the lirst arbitration court lor the settk-ment of dif- ferences between employers anil eniiiloyed ( ISIiti) , and he was elected to Parliament for Shellield (1808). In Parliament he ilirecteil liis energies toward the improvement of laws regulating fac- tories and education, and was particularly suc- cessful in the lightening of women's and chil- dren's labor. In 1SS()-S.5 he was viiepresident of the Council of Education under (iladstone, and he succeeded in passing a compulsory education act ( 1881 I. while as president of the Hoard of Trade ( 1S8G and 18!V2) he started a labor department of which The Labor llazcHc was the organ. In 1804-05 he was chairman of the Poor-Law Com- mittee: he resigiie<l from Parliament in 1894. but was recalled the following year and died while in service. MTTNDEN, nu.in'dcn. A town of Southern Pni>>ia. in the Province of Hanover, situated at the Lunlluence of the Fulda and the Wcrra. 11 miles northeast of Cassel. It has a gymnasium and a palace in which a museum was opened in 1808. The chief manufactures are confectionery, hats, chemicals, and cigars. In the vicinity are coal mines and millstone quarries. Population, in 1000. 02:t(i. MUN'DEN, .lo.sEpn SllEl'HERl) (17.58-18.12). An English comedian, now noted especially for Charles Lamb's well-known cncuniiuni. On the Acting of Mundcn. Born in London, he began life in a conunercial position, but he early found a place on the provincial stage, and in 1700 made his ap|K'arancc in London. His ability to "make faies' was famous, and he was greatest in broad farce, though in serious parts he was not without success. Among his best characters were Sir Francis f!ripe, Sir Peter Teazle, Old Dornton, and Sir HolHUt Bramble. He retired in 1824. and died on Kebruary li, 1832, in London. Consult: Land), The Essiii/s of Elin ( 1st series, London. ]82.'i): Memoirs of Joseph Shepherd Mundcn, Comedian, by his son (it).. 1844); Ilutton. in Actors and Actresses of (Ireat lirilain and the Vnited Stales, ed. by Matthews and Ilutton ( Xew York. 188(!). MXJNDO, ni.in'du. A wild tribe in Cebfi and the I'aiiay Islands. See PllILlPl'iNE ISLANDS. MUNDT, niynt, Klara. A German novelist, best known under her i)seudonym Luise Miihl- bach (c|.v.). MUNDT, TiiEonoR ( 1808-01 ) . A German nov- eli-l and critic of the "young German' school, hus- band of "Luise Miililbach." In 1848 he became professor of history at Breslau. and in 18.50 profer.sor and university librarian at Berlin. He De("amc first known by his Madonna, oder (ic- g-priiehe mil einer lleiUqen, a memorial of Char- lotte Slieglitz. Mundt edited, with Varnhagen von Ense. Knebel's letters and posthumous works, and also piddished Liither's I'idilisehe Sehriflen. Hi" wrote books of travel and romantiially histor- ical novels: Carmela (1844); Mendoza ' {lUil ) ; Hie Miitadore, ete. ( 18.50 1; and also llesehiehle der W'l lllilli ratar : tlesehiehle der lAlleralur der <l'ii> iitiarl (18421 ; llesehiehte der (lesellschafl : and :i iti(ii:il Kiiiist der deulsehen Prosa (ls:i7). MUNDUBUCU, monndoo-roo-koTr'. A power- ful tribe of the great Tupian stock (q.v. ), resid- ing chiefly about the conlluence of the Tapajcs and Amazon, in Xorth Central Brazil. They are variously estinuiteil at from 30,000 to 40,000. The men are tall, athletic, broad-chested, and of light complexion, and their naked bodies are en- tirely covered with artistic tattooing. The women arc pleasing in manner, with a natural and un- conscious vivacity. l>oth sexes are noted for their honesty. The men practice agriculture and do beautiful feather W(jrk. The women are skill- ful in weaving cotton fabrics and liannnocks. Be- sides their habit of preserving the heads of their enemies, which has gained them the name of Paiguize, or Beheadcrs, among the surrounding tribes, they have the custom of killing persons hopelessly ill or decrepit. MTJNGrEE, mun'ger, Theodore Thornton ( 1S30 — ). .

American clergyman. He was born 

at Bainbridge. X. Y., graduated from Y"ale Col- lege in 18.51, and from the Yale Divinity School in 1855. The following year he entered upon the wciik of tlic Congregational ministry, serving first at Dordicster, JIass. He remained here until 18t)0, then devoted two years to travel and study, after which he resumed the ministry, lo- cating in Haverhill from 1802 to 1870, and in Lawrence from 1871 to 1875. In the latter year he removed to California, and during the twelve months of his residence established a church at San Jose. Returning to the East, he became pastor at Xorth Adams, Mass., where he re- mained until 1885, when he resigned to accept a call to the Inited Church. XVw Haven. Conn. He has published: On the Threshold (1880); The Freedom of Faith (1883); The Appeal to Life i 1887) : and Horace liushnell, Preacher and Thiotn,ii,iii (1809). MUNGHIR, nmn-ger'. A town of India. See MoNOllYK. MUNGO. See Shoddy. MUN'GO, Sai.nt (518?-fi03). The popular naun' of Saint Kentigern, one of the three great missionaries of the (.'hristian faith in Scotland. Saint Xinian (q.v.) converted the tribes of the s(aitli: Saint Columba (q.v.) was the apostle of the west and the north; Saint Kentigern was the apostle of the Strathclyde Britons, who held the country between the Clyde on the nortli and the furthest boundaries of Cumberland on the south. (See Strathclyde.) He is said to have been the son of a British prince and jirincess, and is believed to have been born at Culross on the Forth, near Perth, in 518. He planted a monastery on the site of Glasgow, and became the Bishop of the Kingdom of Cumbria (i|.v. ). The nation would seem to have been only partially converted, and persecution drove Saint Kentigern from the realm. He found refuge among the kinilred people of Vales, and there, upon the banks of another Clyde, he found- ed another monastery and bishopric, which still bears the name of his disciple. Saint .saph. Re- called to (ilasgow in 573 by King Roderick the Bountiful, Kentigern renewed his ei)iscopal and missionary labors, in which he was cheered by a visit from Saint Columba. He died .lanuary 13, ti03, and was buried where the Cathedral of (!las- gow, called Saint Mungo's. now st;inds. There is a fragment of a Life of Saint Kentigern written in the twelfth century, and a longer Life by .Tocelyn of Fnrncss. written about 1180. Constilt Forbes, in The Historians of Scotland, vol. v. (Edinburgh, 1874).