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LEFT TRUMPET FLOWEB 20 TRUST P. crepitmis, 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 cap- able of domestication, attending their master in his walks with as much ap- parent affection as his dog. They have no spurs, but such is their high spirit and activity, that they browbeat every I other fowl in the yard, as well as Guinea birds, dogs, and turkeys. TRUMPET FLOWER, a name applied to various large tubular flowers, as those of the Bignonia. TRUNK FISH, a popular name for any species of the genus Ostracion, from the fact that the body is clothed in an TRUNK FISH inflexible armor of hard plates, the tail, fins, and gill openings passing through holes in this coat of mail. TRURO, a town of Nova Scotia, the county-seso of Colchester co. It is on the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railroads, and on the Bay of Fundy. It is the seat of the Provincial Normal Col- lege, the Nova Scotia College of Agricul- ture, and other educational institutions. Pop. about 7,000. TRUSS, in architecture, an ornamented corbel, serving to support an entablature or balcony, or to conceal the ends of the beams which really support the structure ; in the latter case it is frequently made of galvanized sheet iron. In carpentry, a frame to which rigidity is given by stay- ing and bracing, so that its figure shall be incapable of alteration by the turn- ing of the bars about their joints. The simplest frames are of wood, and of few parts. More imposing structures are more complicated, the parts being em- ployed in resisting extension or compres- sion. Composite trusses employ both wood and iron; in fact, few of any im- portance are destitute of bolts and tie rods. In the simplest form of a truss the tie beam is suspended by the king post from the apex of the angle formed by the meeting of the rafters. In the more complex form the tie beam is sus- pended by the queen posts from two points. In shipbuilding, a short piece of carved work fitted under the taff- rail; chiefly used in small ships. Also, the iron hoop, stirrup, and clasp by which the middle of a lower yard is secured to the mast. It consists of a hoop on the mast, tightened by means of screws, whose open heads engage the eyes of a stirrup, which is swiveled to the hoop on the yard. In surgery, an instrument to keep hernia reduced, that is, to retain the intestines within the abdominal cavity. The essential feature is a spring or bandage resting on a pad, which is kept above the orifice of protusion. The pad is usually kept to its place by a spring which reaches around the body terminating opposite to the ruptured part. The spring is cushioned, and some- times has pads to give it bearing on special parts. TRUST, an arrangement by which property is handed to or vested in a person, in the trust or -confidence that he will use and dispos-r of it for the benefit of another. In England, land was in early times frequently conveyed to persons in whom the owner had con- fidence that they might hold it to the use of other persons indicated by him. The use was turned into a legal estate by statute in 1535, but the equitable powers of the Chancery remained, and were free- ly used to enforce any trust, whether relating to land or to personal property. Trusts of land must be declared in writ- ing, but this rule does not apply to trusts raised by implication or construction of law. Thus, if A purchases land with the money of B, he holds it as trustee for B, although there may be no written agree- ment between them. The person who holds property in trust is a trustee; the person for whose benefit he holds is called cestui que trust (he that has the benefit of the trust). In declaring a trust no special formula is necessary, but the intention of the party making it must be clear. Thus, in wills, a testator sometimes uses words which do not amount to an express trust, but speaks of his "wish and desire" or his "con- fidence," that the executor or trustee shall do certain things. These are called in the law precatory trusts; they are enforced if no uncertainty exists as to the purposes or mode of carrying out the trust. A trustee's is not a compulsory office, but gratuitous; but if he once accept he is not at liberty afterward to renounce, unless the trust deed contain a provision enabling him to do so, or the court for good reasons discharge him. A trustee cannot delegate the office to a