Trumbull (JONATHAN an American patriot)
JONATHAN, an American patriot; born in Lebanon, Conn., Oct. 12, 1710; was graduated at Harvard in 1727; was successively judge, deputygovernor, and governor (1769-1783) of Connecticut; and took a very prominent part in forwarding the Revolutionary War. Washington placed great reliance on him, and frequently consulted him; to this habit, and his phrase, often repeated when in doubt, "Let us hear what Brother Jonathan says," has been traced the name which stands (though not so generally now as "Uncle Sam") for a personification of the United States as "John Bull" does for England. Trumbull died Aug. 17, 1785.
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Trumbull (LYMAN an American statesman)
LYMAN, an American statesman; born in Colchester, Conn., Oct 12, 1813; removed to Belleville, Ill., in 1837; became secretary of state of Illinois in 1841; and justice of the Supreme Court of the State in 1848. In 1854 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, and in 1855 was chosen United States senator. He joined the Republican party on the anti-slavery principle, in 1860, and supported Abraham Lincoln; was re-elected to the Senate; secured the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment; and was one of the Republicans who voted against the im- Repu peachment of Andrew Johnson. Later, peachment he became a Democrat. He died in Chicago, Ill., June 25, 1896.
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Trumbull, John
John (1756-1843), an American painter. A native of Connecticut. He was the son of Jonathan Trumbull. He is best known by four great works in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. The Declaration of Independence , the Surrender of Burgoyne, the Surrender of Cornwallis, and the Resignation of Washington at Annapolis. He gave most of his pictures to Yale College. He painted portraits of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, and pictures of The Battle of Bunker Hill and The Death of Montgomery.
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Trumpet
a well known musical wind instrument. It is the type of a large family, including the bugle, horn, trombone, cornet, etc. The essential parts are a tube, cup-shaped for the mouth at one end and bell-shaped at the other. The tones are produced by the vibrations of the player's lips. The simple trumpet is straight; the cavalry trumpet is bent twice upon itself; the orchestral trumpet is fitted with a sliding section for changing the length of the tube. The addition of finger holes and valves increases the range of notes. The trumpet is the traditional instrument of war. Mars is represented in art as blowing the trumpet of war. Its peal is stirring and imperative, putting life into the feet and courage into the heart. The trumpet's call is the signal of advance, the signal of the wild charge. See Orchestra
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Trumpet
in music, a metal wind instrument of bright and penetrating tone, formed of a single tube of brass or silver, curved into a convenient shape, with a mouthpiece at one end, the other having a bell. Its part is usually written in the key of c with the treble clef, though by means of crooks or lengthening pieces the sounds produced may be in various keys. The trumpet required for a piece is indicated at the commencement, as trumpet in B, C, D flat, E, F, or G. The modern orchestral or slide trumpet consists of a tube 66% inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in diameter. It is twice turned or curved, thus forming three lengths; the first and third lying close together, and the second about two inches apart. The slide is connected with the second curve. It is a double tube, five inches in length on each side, by which the length of the whole instrument can be extended. Trumpets with pistons or valves capable of producing every chromatic sound within their compass are sometimes used, but the tone is by no means to be compared with the true trumpet tone. Also, a stop of an organ having reed pipes tuned in unison with the open diapason. The octave trumpet or clarion stop is an octave higher.
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Trumpet Creeper
a climbing shrub of the warmer parts of America. It is related to the catalpa. It bears showy trumpet-shaped orange and scarlet flowers. This is one of the flowers that may well make Northern people envious of the South. Of a dozen different kinds known by various common names, as yellow elder, cape honeysuckle, trumpet vine, and Australian bower-plant, only one, our native species, can be reared as far north as Massachusetts.
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Trumpet Flower
a name applied to various large tubular flowers, as those of the Bignonia.
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Trumpeter
in ichthyology, the Latris hecateia, one of the most important food fishes of the Southern Hemisphere. It ranges from 30 to 60 pounds in weight, and is considered by the colonists the best flavored of any of the fishes of New Zealand, Tasmania, and south Australia. Large numbers are smoked and sent into the interior. In ornithology, any species of the genus Psophia. They are South American birds, allied to the crane, inhabiting the forests, frequenting the ground in search of grain for food, and often betraying their presence by their loud call, whence both their popular and scientific names are derived. The best known species, P. crepitans, is very beautiful. The breast is adorned with brilliant changing blue and purple feathers, with metallic luster; head and neck like velvet; wings and back gray, and belly black. They run with great swiftness, and are capable of domestication, attending their master in his walks with as much apparent affection as his dog. They have no spurs, but such is their high spirit and activity, that they browbeat every other fowl in the yard, as well as Guinea birds, dogs, and turkeys.
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Trunk Fish
a popular name for any species of the genus Ostracion, from the fact that the body is clothed in an TRUNK FISH inflexible armor of hard plates, the tail, fins, and gill openings passing through holes in this coat of mail.
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Truro
a town of Nova Scotia, the county-seat of Colchester co. It is on the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railroads, and on the Bay of Fundy. It is the seat of the Provincial Normal College, the Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, and other educational institutions. Pop. about 7,000.
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