Trover
in law, a species of action on the case which is employed to try a disputed question of property in goods and chattels. The declaration in trover contained, previous to 1852, a formal allegation that the plaintiff lost, and the defendant found, the goods in question; but this legal fiction is now abolished , and the action is brought on a simple allegation that the defendant converted to his own use, or wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the use and possession of the plaintiff's goods. In this action the plaintiff recovers damages equal to the value of the thing converted , but not the thing itself, which requires another form of action; detinue or replevin. ved
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Trowbridge
JOHN TOWNSEND, an American author; born in Ogden , N. Y., Sept. 18, 1827. He began his literary career in 1846 by writing for the magazines, and in 1850 became editor of "The Yankee Nation," and co-editor with Lucy Larcom and Gail Hamilton , of "Our Young Folks." Among his most popular works are: " Neighbor Jackwood" (1857); "Cudjo's Cave " (1863); "Coupon Bonds, etc." (1872); "His Own Master" (1877); "The Tinkham Brothers' Tide-Mill" (1882); the "Jack Hazard Stories, etc."; "The Kelp Gatherers" (1890); "The Scarlet Tanager" (1891); "Woodie Thorpe's Pilgrimage" (1893 ) ; "The Lottery Ticket" (1895 ); (1895); "The Prize Cup" (1896); " Two Biddicut Boys, etc." (1898); also several volumes of poems, among them "The Vagabonds and Other Poems" (1869 ); "The Book of Gold" (1877); "The Lost Earl" (1888). He died in 1916.
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Trowbridge (II)
WILLIAM PETIT, an American engineer; born near Bir- 28; was mingham, Mich., May 25 , 1828; at the United States Military Academy in 1848; served on the United States Coast Survey in 1851-1853; conducted tidal and magnetic observations on the Pacific coast in 1853-1856 ; taught in the University of Michigan in 1856; superintended the erection of a self-registering magnetic observatory in Key West in 1860; and was employed in the preparation of minute descriptions of the harbors, inlets , and rivers of the S. coast and in the supervision of the distribution of supplies to the Union army in 1861-1865. He was chief engineer in the construction of the fortifications at Willett's Point, on Governor's Island, and at other points, and was also for several years Professor of Engineering at Yale and Columbia Universities . He was an expert on bridge construction. Special recognition is due him for his design of the first cantilever bridge and for his invention of a high class coil boiler. He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 12, 1892.
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Trowbridge (JOHN an American scientist)
JOHN, an American scientist; born in Boston, Mass., in 1843; was graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, in 1865; served as instructor there in 1866-1869 . He was assistant Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- He afterward nology in 1869-1870. founded a laboratory course in physics at Harvard University and was Professor of Experimental Physics in 1880-1888. In the latter year he accepted the chair of applied science in the same institution. In 1878 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1883 was a delegate to the International Congress of Electricians. He was the author of "The New Physics"; "What is Electricity?" "Three Boys on an Electrical Boat"; "The Electrical Boy"; "Philip's Experiments, or Physical Science at Home"; and of many papers on physics and more especially on electricity.
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Trowbridge, John Townsend
John Townsend (1827-), an American story writer and poet. He was born at Townsend, New York . He received a common school education and in 1846 went to New York, where he began writing for journals and magazines. He became editor of a journal called The Sentinel, but lost his position through publishing an editorial against the fugitive slave law. Neighbor Jackwood, a story protesting against slavery, was read widely, and was dramatized successfully. Trowbridge was managing editor of Our Young Folks, and was one of the original contributors to The Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Trowbridge is best known as a writer of stories for boys. The Jack Hazard Series, including Jack Hazard and His Fortunes, A Chance for Himself, Doing His Best, Fast Friends, and The Young Surveyor, first published in Our Young Folks, will long be popular with young people. They recount the experiences and struggles of a homeless New England boy, telling of his schooling, his friends, his mistakes, his failures, and his final success. Over 13,000 copies of Cudjo's Cave, another well known story published in 1864, were sold in one week. Trowbridge is the author of many short stories and poems. The Vagabonds is his best known poem.
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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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