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Thomasville

a city of North a Carolina, in Davidson co. It is on the Southern and the Carolina and Yadkin railroads. Its industries include machine a woodworking plant, cotton mills, chair factories, etc. It is the seat of the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage. Pop. (1910), 3,877; (1920), 5,676.

Thompson

DENMAN, an American actor; born in Girard, Pa., in 1833; began his professional career as a dancer, Irish character and general utility man.

Later he starred in the comedy "Joshua Whitcomb," a play of his own, which was afterward remodeled as "The Old Homestead." He died April 14, 1911.

Thompson

FRANK ERNEST, an American educator; born in Duquoin, III., 1871. In 1901 he became an assistant instructor of education at Leland Stanford University; then, a year later, instructor in the State Normal School in San Francisco. He became professor and director of the College of Education of the University of Colorado in 1907.

Thompson

MORTIMER M., pseudoan American humorist; born in Riga, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1830. He contributed at first to the daily and in later years regularly to the weekly newspapers, and published New York"; "Nothing to Say"; "The Elephant Club." He died in New York city, June 25, 1875.

Thomson

THOMAS, a Scotch chem-

Thor

the son of Odin and Jörd; in northern mythology, the highest of the Æsir after Odin. He is the strongest of all the gods, and defends Asgard and Midgard against the Jotuns. His king-

Thornback

the name of a species of ray (Raia clavata), distinguished by the short and strong recurved spines, rising from a broad osseous tubercular base, which are scattered over the back and tail. Two of these broad-based spines occupy the central ridge of the nose.

Thorntail

in ornithology, a popular name for all the species of two genera of humming birds- Gouldia (four species) and Discura (one). The tail feathers in the first genus are much elongated and sharply pointed, and the tarsi are covered with a tuft of feathers .

Discura has a racket at the end of the tail.

Thorpe

BENJAMIN, an English scholar; born about 1782. Among his numerous publications are an English edition of "Rask's Anglo -Saxon Grammar," "Ancient Laws and Institutes of the Anglo-Saxon Kings," "The Gospels in Anglo-Saxon," an edition of "Beowulf," "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," "Northern Mythology," etc. He died in London, July 19, 1870.

Thorpe

ROSE HARTWICK, an American author; born in Mishawaka, Ind., July 18, 1850; received a high school education. She became widely known because of her poem "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight." Her other publications include "Fred's Dark Days" (1881); "Nina Bruce" (1886); "The Chester Girls" (1887); "The Year's Best Days" (1889); "Temperance Poems" (1887); "Sweet Song Stories" (1898); etc.

Thousand Islands

a group of small islands numbering about 1,800 in the St. Lawrence, immediately below Lake Ontario. They belong partly to Canada and partly to the State of New York, and have become a popular summer resort.

Thread Cells

the name given to certain peculiar cells or cysts, found chiefly in the tissues of Cælenterate animals. They contain fluid, and are provided with an internal thread-like filament. Under pressure the cell ruptures, the thread is everted, and the fluid escapes. These cells form a poison apparatus for paralyzing prey.