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LEFT TRICHINOPOLI 506 TRIESTE Heber, who died here in 1826. The manu- factures include jewelry, paintings on talc, paper and pith ornaments. Pop. about 124,000. The district of Trichi- nopoli, which lies on both banks of the Cauvery, landward of Tranjore, has an area of 3,515 square miles. It abounds with gneiss, granite, iron ore and lime- stone. The products are rice, cotton, sugar, oil seeds, and tobacco. The ex- ports include saltpeter, hewn stone for building, and grindstones. The imports are English piece goods. Besides the manufactures of the town, basket boats are made of wicker work covered with hides. TB-ICKETT, WILLIAM, an American lawyer; born in England, in 1840; was graduated at Dickinson College in 1868 and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was made dean of Dickinson School of Law in 1890; was candidate for the Su- perior Court of Pennsylvania on the Democratic ticket in 1898. He was the author of "Law of Liens in Pennsyl- vania" (3 vols. 1882) ; "Law of Limita- tions in Pennsylvania" (1884); "Law of Assignments in Pennsylvania" (1884); "Law of Boroughs in Pennsylvania" (2 vols. 1893 and 1898) ; "Law of Streets and Roads in Penrisylvania" (1894); "Law of Guardians in Pennsylvania" (1900) ; and "Law of Partition in Penn- sylvania" (1900). TRICLINIUM, in Roman antiquities, in early times, the whole family sat to- gether in the atrium, or public room; but when mansions were built upon a large scale, one or more spacious banqueting halls commonly formed part of the plan, such apartments being classed under the general title of triclinia. The word tri- linium, however, in its strict significa- tion, denotes not the apartment, but a set of low divans or couches grouped round a table; these couches, according to the usual arrangement, being three in num- ber, and arranged round three sides of the table, the fourth side being left open for the ingress and egress of the atten- dants, to set down and remove the dishes. Each couch was calculated to hold three persons, though four might be squeezed in. Men always reclined at table, rest- ing on the left elbow, their bodies slight- ly elevated by cushions, and their limbs stretched out at full length their right arm free. TRICOLOR, a flag or banner having three colors; specifically, a flag having three colors arranged in equal stripes or masses. The present European tricolor designs are, for Belgium, black, yellow, red, divided vertically; France, blue, white, red, divided vertically; Holland, red, white, blue, divided horizontally; Italy, green, white, red, divided verti- cally. During the revolution of 1789 ii France the revolutionists adopted as their colors the three colors of the city of Paris for their symbol. The three colors were first devised by Mary Stuart, wife of Francis II. The white repre- sented the royal house of France; the blue, Scotland; and the red, Switzerland, in compliment to the Swiss guards, whose livery it was. In botany, Amaran- thua tricolor, a species from China, with bright foliage, but insignificant flowers. TRIESTE, a city of Italy and most considerable trading town on the Adri- atic; at the head of the Gulf of Trieste, an arm of the Gulf of Venice; 370 miles S. S. W. of Vienna. In 1849 it was con- stituted an imperial free city, and at- tached and belonging to it is a territory 86 square miles in extent. The city of Trieste, in which the population of the district is almost wholly amassed, con- sists of the old town, the new town, or Theresienstadt, and two suburbs, Josef- stadt and Franzenstadt. The old town, built on the slope of a steep hill, crowned by a castle (1508-1680), is distinguished by its narrow streets and black walls. It contains the cathedral, a Byzantine edifice built between the 5th and 14th centuries, into the walls of which stones bearing Roman inscriptions and carving have been built, and the tower of which is said to rest on the foundation of a temple of Jupiter. The new town, with broad streets built in regular parallel- ograms and handsome houses, occupies the plain that fronts the sea. Between these two divisions runs the Corso, the chief thoroughfare. The Tergesteo (1840), in the new town, is a splendid modern edifice, containing an exchange and reading rooms, and the offices of the Austrian Lloyd's. Trieste, which from 1719 till July 1, 1891, was a free port, has a very fine new harbor (1868-1883). The manufactures are very extensive, in- cluding ship-building, rope-making, and the manufacture of soap, rosoglio, white lead, leather, etc. A great agricultural exhibition was held at Trieste in 1882. Pop. (1910) 157,765, nearly all Catholics, and mostly Italian-speaking. Trieste, the ancient Tergeate or Ter- gestum, was of importance under the Romans, and first receives historical mention 51 B. C, when it was overrun and plundered by neighboring tribes. In 1382 it passed finally into the hands of Austria. It owes its prosperity chiefly to the Emperor Charles VI., who con- stituted it a free port, and to Maria