Mene edemmäski!"

but there can be no doubt that his original work assigned an antiquity to Menes of over 5500 B.C." "On the whole, we have to fall back on Manetho as the only authority for anything like precise dates and connected history.

We might mention that from the fragments of Africanus' Pentabiblion Chronicon, preserved in Eusebius, the author places the Creation at 5499 B.C., which is certainly hardly compatible with his giving such fragments of Manetho as would place Menes one year before that date.

Night's "Mene Tekel" even now Glows on her palace-walls, and she shall pass Like the dim vapour from a burnish'd glass; And no chill shadows o'er the soul shall go, Borne by each weeping West Wind to and fro.

While these short scenes were occurring in the street, in the dining-kiosk of the greater gods there was passed from hand to hand a piece of parchment on which were written in red ink these fateful words: Mene, Tekel, Phares Juan Crisostomo Ibarra "Juan Crisostomo Ibarra?

"I don't suppose that that Mene, Tekel, Phares, means that we're to be assassinated tonight?" speculated Don Custodio.

handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra^, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens^, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra^, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens^, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

[Milton]; mene mene tekel upharson [Old Testament].

[Milton]; mene mene tekel upharson [Old Testament].

Ye men of "peace at any price," do not shut your eyes wilfully to the finger of God pointing to the mene, tekel, upharsin written with gigantic letters upon the sky of Europe.

Add to these a mortified bankrupt that helps out his false weights with some scruples of conscience, and with his peremptory scales can doom his prince with a mene tekel.

oh le vent me mene, Sans me plaindre ou m'effrayer; Je vais où va toute chose, Oh va la fenille de rose Et la feuille de laurier.]

The Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin around it I cannot decypher.

The Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin around it I cannot decypher.

Faintly they can see the legend Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin....

Faintly they can see the legend Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin....

And, had he been a man of letters, he might have inscribed, with equal truth, as it was done for the ancient Persian monarch, "MENE, MENE, TEKEL.

And, had he been a man of letters, he might have inscribed, with equal truth, as it was done for the ancient Persian monarch, "MENE, MENE, TEKEL.

And as for the copie of my lettar sent to the Frenche kinge, I pray God confound me eternally, if ever I sent him word, message, token, or lettar by any menes: and to this my truith I will stande in to my dethe.

Example III."Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.

Here I found the mummies of the pigmy race that once inhabited the gigantic valley of the Mississippi, adorned with strings of shell-wampum and turkeys' feathersseated in death like the ancient Naso-menes, grinning at me with their long inhuman fore-teethand came out as wise as I went in.

It may be that a modern Mene, Mene Will force the Duchess to become a tweeny; But, ere this democratic transformation Secures the "old nobility's" salvation, Some other changes are not less but more Needful to aid our progress in the War.

It may be that a modern Mene, Mene Will force the Duchess to become a tweeny; But, ere this democratic transformation Secures the "old nobility's" salvation, Some other changes are not less but more Needful to aid our progress in the War.

MEMPHIS, an ancient city of Egypt, of which it was the capital; it was founded by Menes at the apex of the delta of the Nile, and contained 700,000 inhabitants.