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LYMAN BEECHER, an American college president, born at Exeter. R. I., in 1833. He was educated at TEFFT time. He died in Wexiö, Sweden, Nov.
He rank among the greatest poets of his ical Seminary, graduating in 1860. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1862, and was pastor at Prescott, Wis., 2, 1846. ical Seminary, graduating in 1860.
Η was ordained to the Baptist ministry in time. He died in Wexiö, Sweden, Nov. 1862, and was pastor at Prescott, Wis., 2, 1846.
Minn., 1869-1871, and Colchester, Conn., 1871-1874. He was instructor and acting principal at Nashville Normal and Theo- 1871-1874. He was instructor and acting principal at Nashville Normal and Theological Institute, 1874-1893, and president of Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va., 1893-1912. He wrote "Curi- osities of Heat" and "Institutes of Moral Philosophy."
TEGEA (tej'ē-ä), a city of Arcadia, in ancient Greece. It took part in the battle of Platæa in 479 B. C.; was on the side of Sparta in the Peloponnesian and Corinthian wars, but opposed her at the battle of Mantinea in 362 B. c.; and joined the Arcadian Confederacy and the AEtolian and Archæan Leagues.
Tegea contained a famous temple to Athena Alea, which was burned about 394 B. c., but restored by Scopas. It was a peripteros of Doric architecture, 154 feet long by 72 feet wide, with respectively 13 and 6 columns. The E. pediment bore sculptures representing the sla slaying of the Calydonian boar; the W. pediment, the combat of Achilles and Telephus. The columns of the cells were Corinthian and Ionic.
Corinthian and Ionic. born in Kyrerud, Värmland, Nov. 13, 1782. In 1799 he entered the University of Lund, where he studied theology and 1782. In 1799 he entered the University Æsthetics in 1805, and Professor of Greek in 1812. After he had been elected to the Swedish Academy (1818), and graduated in theology, he Greek in 1812. After he had been (1818), and graduated in theology, he he remained till his death. His first great works were his "Svea" (1811), crowned by the Academy; the idyl he remained till his death. His first great works were his "Svea" (1811), (1822), whose subject is drawn from the age of Karl XII. It was by his feet above the sea; on both sides of the Rio Grande, with mountains rising round about. It has an active trade and gold and silver mines. Pop. about 30,000. ras; situated in a fertile valley 3,400 feet above the sea; on both sides of the Rio Grande, with mountains rising round about. It has an active trade and gold and silver mines. Pop. about 30,000. here and there with mud-built villages, of Persia: 70 miles S. of the shore of the Caspian Sea; on a wide plain, dotted here and there with mud-built villages, and pierced with many circular pits, altogether dependent. To the N. runs ranean watercourses, on which, in this in a general E. and W. direction the region, the life of animal and plant is altogether dependent. To the N. runs nearly 20,000 feet above sea-level. The wall and ditch (4 miles long) were old wall and ditch (4 miles long) were leveled in 1868, and the space thus nearly 20,000 feet above sea-level. The leveled in 1868, and the space thus ditch, were at the same time commenced lar road or boulevard. Fortifications, on a much more extended scale. This ditch, were at the same time commenced on a much more extended scale. This an area about 10 miles in circumference, was completed in 1873. The town rapespecially on the N. side, where many especially on the N. side, where many fine streets, gardens, and buildings soon made their appearance, among which may be specially mentioned the handsome buildings and grounds of the British Lemay be specially mentioned the handsome buildings and grounds of the British Legation. The Shah's palace, entirely reconstructed since 1866, occupies the citadel, and is both spacious and cheerful, its large courtyards being laid out with gardens and numerous fountains. Besides his town palace, the Shah has five sides his town palace, the Shah has five others in the immediate neighborhood, which he occupies at different seasons of "Frithjofs Saga" (1825) that Tegner the year. The foreign legations and rich won his highest fame. This poem has natives are also in the habit of resortbeen translated into almost every Euro- ing in summer to the cool slopes at the pean language. Its German translations foot of the Elburz, where many of them number 19, of which the best are by have commodious houses and fine garpean language. Its German translations Kleinburg (1875), and Möhnike (1877). number 19, of which the best are by are "Helgönabacken" and "Gerda," the latter an epos placed in the time of Valdemar the Great. Tegner's "Samlade Skrifter" have been published by his sonin-law, Böttiger (7 vols. 1847-1850), and his posthumous works by El Tegnér (3 vols. 1873-1874). His rich humor and lively fancy, his warm and manly feel ing, and his wealth of high thoughts The bazaars, some of which are very handsome structures, are filled with every kind of native and foreign merevery kind of native and foreign mer- chandise. From Teheran lines of telegraph radiate in almost every direction to the extremities of the kingdom, by far the most important being the lines pean Telegraph Department and those of the Indian Government I of the English Indo-European Telegraph Company. In 1886 a short line of rail- Indo-Euro-