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LEFT TETBAZZINI 320 TEUTOBURG FOREST TETRAZZINI, LUISA, an Italian soprano, bom at Florence, in 1874. When quite young she sang operas which she had heard from her elder sister, Eva, practice, and after three months study under Cecherini at the Liceo Musicale of Florence made her debut as Inez in L'Africaine, and sang in Rome and other cities. Later she toured Russia and Spain, and was acclaimed at Buenos Aires. After visiting Mexico and Cali- fornia she sang at Co vent Garden, Lon- LUISA TETRAZZINI don, in 1907, and in New York, in 1908. These tours established her reputation and she was acclaimed a successor to Patti. In recent years she has sung in the chief cities of Europe and America. TETZEL, JOHANN, a German preacher; bom in Leipsic, Germany, about 1455. He entered the order of the Do- minicans, and in 1502 was appointed by the Roman see a preacher of indulgences, and carried on for 15 years a very lucra- tive trade in them. His life was so cor- rupt that at Innsbruck he was sentenced to be drowned for adultery, but got off through powerful intercession. Having traveled to Rome, he was absolved by Pope Leo X., and now carried on the sale of indulgences with still greater effrontery. Luther came out with his theses against this crying abuse in 1517, and the popular indignation aroused, brought on the Reformation, (q.v.). A gfeat part of the money acquired by his traffic in indulgences was used for the erection of St. Peter's church at Rome. Tetzel died in Liepsic July 14, 1519. TEUCRITTM, a genus of plants, order Lamiacese, consisting of herbs and shrubs widely dispersed throughout the world, but abounding chiefly in the northern temperate and subtropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. They are called germanders. Several species were former- ly reputed to possess medicinal virtues, but are now discarded. The genus is represented in North America by T. Canadense, the wild germander, about two feet high, found in fields and road- sides throughout the United States. TEUDOPSIS, in palaeontology, a genus of Teiithidas, or a sub-genus of Loligo, with five species, from the Upper Lias and Oolite of France and Wiirttemberg. Pen like the Loligo, but dilated and spatu- late behind. TETTFFEL, WILHELM, a German philologist; born in Ludwigsburg, Ger- many, Sept. 27, 1820. His greatest work is the "History of Roman Literature" (1870). He wrote also: "Exercises in Latin Style" (1887); "Studies in Greek and Roman, and also in German Literary History" (1871); and edited with notes several Greek and Roman classics. He died in Tubingen, where he was profes- sor in the university, March 8, 1878. TEUTATES, in mythology, a deity mentioned by Lucan as being worshipped with sacrifices not unlike those of Mo- loch. TEUTHID.ffl, in zoology, calamaries, or squids; a family of dibranchiate Cephalopods, section Octopoda. Body elongated; fins short, broad, and mostly terminal; shell horny, consisting of a shaft and two lateral expansions or wings. There are 18 genera, very widely distributed, which D'Orbigny divided into two sub-families: Myopsidse (having the eyes covered with skin) and Oigopsidse (having the eyes naked, fins terminal and united, forming a rhomb). TEUTB[IDID.ffi, in ichthyology, a fam- ily of Acanthopterygii Perdformes, with a single genus. Body oblong, strongly compressed, covered with small scales; lateral line continuous; one dorsal, the spinous portion being the more devel- oped; anal with seven spines; ventrals thoracic, with an outer and an inner spine, with three soft rays between. TEUTHIS, the sole genus of the fam- ily Teuthididas, with about 30 species from the Indo-Pacific. They are small herbivorous fishes rather more than a foot long. TEUTOBURG FOREST, or TEUTO- BTJIIGER WALD, a hilly district of Germany, in Westphalia, where Arminius defeated the Roman general Varus, 9 A. D. See Arminius.