Trowel
This is unquestionably the most important of all the moulder's tools. The square trowels vary in size from 1/2 inch X 3 inches to 2 inches X 7 inches, and are supplied with a handle similar in style to the ordinary mason's trowel, but smaller. Others, again, having handles, are heart-shaped, and vary in size from 1 1/2 inches to 3 1/2 inches across. There is, besides these, a combination tool having a square at one end and a heart at the other, which for general purposes, in skilful hands, is the most useful of all. See MOULDING-TOOLS.
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Troyes
the Augustobona, later Civitas Tricassium of the Romans, a town in France; capital of the department of Aube; on the Seine, 100 miles E. S. E. of Paris. The principal edifices are the cathedral, a fine Gothic building; the churches of St. Urbain and St. Madeleine; the town house; the prefecture, a public library, museum, etc. Being at the center of an important agricultural region, it has a large transit trade. The manufactures chiefly consist of cottons, woolens, hosiery, soap, artificial flowers, paper, gloves, etc. Pop. about 60,000.
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Truce
a suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing armies; a temporary cessation of nostilities, either for negotiation or other purpose. The truce of God was a suspension of arms which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, and was introduced by the Church in order to mitigate the evils of private war. This truce provided that private feuds should cease at least on the holidays from Thursday evening to Sunday evening each week, during the season of Advent and Lent, and on the octaves of the great festivals.
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Truce of God
in feudal times, a regulation of the church forbidding private hostilities between Wednesday evening and the following Monday morning of each week. In addition the truce covered the time of church festivals. See Fist-Law
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Truck
Almost any contrivance on wheels for carrying loads is called a truck. At one time trucks were of such variety as almost to defy description, but the tram-rail and overhead conveniences have revolutionized this, leaving the foundries clear of all except the common hand-truck and wheelbarrow. See IRON-CARRIER; CRANES. Trunnions are cylindrical projections placed on each side of a flask in a position to balance it. the trunnion forms an axis to turn in a sling, or on a suitably contrived trestle, when the cope is turned over. A depression in the middle of the trunnion prevents the sling from slipping off. See SLING.
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Truckee River
a river in California, forming the outlet of Lake Tahoe. It runs nearly N. and enters the State of Nevada, intersecting Washoe county and emptying into Pyramid Lake. It is nearly 125 miles long and abounds in trout.
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Trudeau
EDWARD LIVINGSTON, an American physician, born in New York City, in 1848. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1871. For a short time he practiced in New York, and then, having contracted tuberculosis, he went to Saranac Lake. He received such benefit from the air and climate that he resolved that others should benefit, and, with the aid of others, opened the first American institution to attempt the open-air method of treatment for the disease. In 1894 he founded the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis. His treatment was remarkably effective and won worldwide recognition. He developed it on a large scale and it continued to grow after his death. He wrote much on the subject of tuberculosis and, in 1916, the year following his death, his autobiography was published.
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Trujillo
(trö-hēl'yo), (1) a town of Spain, the birthplace and burial place of Pizarro, in Cáceres province, 60 miles N. E. of Badajoz. It is built partly on a granite crag, and manufactures linen, leather, and pottery. Pop. about 12,000. (2) An episcopal city of Peru, capital of the department of Libertad, on a fertile plain near the sea-coast. It was founded by Pizarro in 1535, has walls that were raised in 1686 to keep out the filibusters, and contains a college, a theological seminary, and high school. Its ports are Huanchaco and Salaverry. Pop. about 15,000. (3) A port of Honduras, on the N. coast (bananas, hides, mahogany, rubber, and cattle). The town dates from 1524. Pop. about 2,500.
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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 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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