Tiflis
the capital of the republic of Georgia, and chief city in the territory of the Caucasus, lies in a narrow valley on both sides of the Kur, 184 miles E. S. E. of Poti by rail. In its architecture and in the manners of its inhabitants the city presents a singular mixture of Asiatic and European features. The city is the seat of the civil and military authorities of Transcausia, and has 42 churches (23 Armenian), 2 mosques, a gymnasium, and several upper schools, a library, a botanic garden, a hospital, and a theater. It has active manufactures of woolens, silks, cottons, armor, and leather, and is the emporium for the important Russian trade with Persia. It is connected with Teheran by telegraph. Tiflis was the scene of active military operations during the World War, and 1919-1920. See GEORGIA. Pop. about 300,000.
a province of the republic of Georgia, extending Kur river from the central chain of the Caucasus Mountains on the N. to the Armenian plateau on the S.; area 15,777 square miles. Steppes and fertile plains are found in the center, but much of the surface is mountainous, covered with offshoots from the Caucasus and Mount Ararat, reaching in some peaks to 12,000 feet. The soil is fertile and yields abundant tobacco, cotton, indigo, wheat and fruit. Numerous rich petroleum springs and mineral wells exist, and excellent timber is produced from the extensive forests of oak, elm, maple, and chestnut. Pop. about 1,400,000.
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Tighe
MARY (BLACHFORD), an Irish poet; born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1772; married her cousin, Henry Tighe, of Woodstock, M. P., in 1793. Though her poem "Psyche, or the Legend of Love," was privately printed (1805), it was only after her death , March 24, 1810, that her writings were given to the world . The first edition was in 1811, and they have been frequently reprinted. The "Psyche" is written in the Spenserian stanza; and at least, by Leigh Hunt's admission, occasionally , contains a fancy not unworthy of a pupil of Spenser. Her other poems are short occasional pieces, frequently of a religious cast. It is probably as the subject of Moore's lyric, "I saw thy form in youthful pride," and of Mrs. Hemans's "Grave of a Poetess," that Mrs. Tighe is destined to be longest remembered.
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Tigridia
the tiger flower, a genus of plants, order Iridaceæ , containing only one species, T. Pavonia, distinguished by the three outer segments of the perianth being larger, and d by by the filaments being united into a long cylinder. It is a native of Mexico, and much cultivated in flower gardens for the singularity and however, evanescent. The root is a scaly beauty of its flowers, which bulb.
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Tigrisoma
in orinthology , a genus cal America and Western Africa. Bill as in Ardea; face and sometimes chin, naked; legs feathered almost to the knees; innner toe rather shorter than curved; anterior scales reticulate or outer; claws short, stout, regularly hexagonal.
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Tii
A Polynesian Vampire . (See Vampire.)
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Tikoor
or TIKUL, in botany, the Garcinia pedunculata, a tall tree, a nain India. The fruit is large, round, tive of Rungpur, Goalpara and Sylhet smooth and, when ripe, yellow. The taste, and is used by the natives for fleshy part is of a very sharp, rp, pleasant curries, and for acidulating water; if and might be used in lieu of limes, on cut into slices it will keep for years, board ship on long voyages.
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Tikus
in zoölogy, a small insectimatra, described by Sir Stamford Rafvorous mammal , from Malacca and Sufles as Viverra gymnura, but now known not unlike an opossum with a lengthened as Gymnurus rafflesii. Externally, it is upper part of legs, root of tail, and muzzle; greater portion of the body, stripe over the eye black, the other parts white. It possesses glands which secrete a substance with a strong musky smell. sculptor; born in Chico, Butte co., Cal.,
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Tilefish
a fish discovered accidentally by fishermen trawling for cod near Nantucket. It is a brilliantly colored fish, weighing from 10 to 30 pounds.
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Tileston
MARY WILDER, an American author, born in Salem, Mass., Aug. 20, 1843. She was the daughter of Caleb and Mary Wilder (White) Foote, and was married to John Boies Tileston in 1865. Among her many works are: "Quiet Hours," a book of poems (1874); "Selections from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" (1876); "Selections from the Imitation of Christ" (1876); "The Blessed Life" (1878); "Selections from Fénelon" (1879); "Selections from Dr. John Tauler, (1882); "Heroic Ballads, (1883); "Daily Strength for Daily Needs " ( 1883); " ( 1885); " Tender " Selections from and Mary Wilder Foote" (1918). died in 1918. Minerals and Rocks" (1900); etc. Z Sugar and Spice " Suffolk, the year after preached at Linand True " ( 1892); coln's Inn, where his mild, evangelical, Isaac Penington " but undoctrinal morality was at first little relished. He married a niece of Oliver (1892); "Prayers, Ancient and Modern" Cromwell, and became lecturer at St. (1902); "Joy and Strength for the Pil- Lawrence's Church, in the Jewry. In grim's Day" (1902); "Memorials of 1670 he became a prebendary, in 1672 Mary Wilder White" (1903); "Children's dean of Canterbury. Along with Burnet Treasure Trove of Pearls" (1908); "The he attended Lord Russell on the scaffold Child's Harvest of Verse" (1910); "Caleb (1683). In 1689 he was appointed clerk of the closet to King William and dean of St.
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Tillman
BENJAMIN RYAN, an Paul's, and in April, 1691, was raised to American legislator; born in Edgefield the see of Canterbury, vacant by the co., S. C., Aug. 11, 1847; was educated deposition of the Nonjuror Sancroft. His at Bethany Academy. He became prom- "Posthumous Sermons," edited by his inent in a discussion for industrial and chaplain, Dr. Ralph Barker, filled 14 voltechnical education and other reforms in 1886; founded Clemson Agricultural and umes (1694). A complete edition of his whole works, including 254 sermons, ap- Mechanical College, at Fort Hill, for peared in three volumes folio, 1707-1712; boys, and Winthrop Normal and Inwith a good "Life" by Dr. Thomas Birch, dustrial College at Rock Hill, for girls; 1752; and an annotated selection of his was elected Democratic governor of South Carolina in 1890 and 1892; was sermons by G. W. Weldon (1886). Burnet said he was the best preacher of his conspicuous in the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina in 1895; and was age. He died Nov. 22, 1694. elected United States Senator in 1895
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