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Tver (City and capital)

a city and capital of the Ruswith the Tverza and the Tmaka, 110 sian province of the same name, is on both sides of the Volga at its confluence miles N. W. of Moscow. It has fine gymnasium, a technical school, a cavalry the World War many factories. Its streets and squares, a former imperial palace, a cathedral, and many churches, several monasteries, a priests' college, a gymnasium, a technical school, a cavalry cadets' school, a teachers' seminary, a several monasteries, a priests' college, a ladies' college, several benevolent institutions, and a theater. There were before corn and metal wares. Entirely burnt the World War many factories. Its in 1763, Tver was speedily rebuilt by position on the Petrograd-Moscow railway and on the river Volga gave Tver great transit traffic, which was chiefly in corn and metal wares. Entirely burnt in 1763, Tver was speedily rebuilt by Catharine II., who has here a monument. Pop. about 65,000.

Pop. about 65,000.

American landscape painter, born in Cincinnati in 1853. He studied art at TWACHTMAN, JOHN HENRY, an in the United States of the impression- Cincinnati in 1853. He studied art at the Cincinnati School of Design under were distinguished for their color and ood of Greenwich, the Cincinnati School of Design under Duveneck and at Munich and at Paris, becoming one of the leading exponents chiefly the neighborhood istic school of painting. His landscapes As subjects for his paintings he chose for their harmony of form and masses. painted one series each of Niagara Falls Conn., where he lived, although he TWEED and Yellowstone subjects. Samples of his work were acquired by most of the important_public collections in this country. He died in 1902. In 1913 a lone exhibition of his paintings was held in New York, and an entire room was devoted to his work at the Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco.