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with steel. In Cornwall tin-ore is found in veins running through granite and slate, or scattered in crystals through their mass. The dressing of the ore is a hard and delicate operation. It only yields from ten to 84 pounds of tin-oxide to a ton of material, and is so scattered through the mass that it has to be stamped to a fine powder to separate it. It is then repeatedly washed by machinery to rid it of impurities, is passed through a furnace to separate the sulphur and arsenic, and is then ready for smelting.

Tin'dale, William, an English reformer, was born in Gloucestershire about 1490. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and in 1523 began his translation of the New Testament in London; but his sympathy with the Reformation becoming known by his bold speech, he had to flee, going to Hamburg for a year. The first ten sheets of his New Testament were printed at Cologne, and in 1525 at Worms two editions were published without his name. This was the first English printed copy of the New Testament. There was a great demand for it, in spite of the prohibition of the clergy and the abuse of such men as Sir Thomas More, (q. v.), who wrote against Tindale. The fifth edition was published in 1529, and in 1534 a revised edition came out with Tin-dale's acknowledgment of his work. He also brought out a translation of the Pentateuch, or first five books of the Bible, and wrote The Obedience of a Christian Man. Various plots had been made to arrest him, after the first issue of his Testament, and at last officials of the Holy Empire succeeded in having him taken at Antwerp, where he was imprisoned for 18 months and then executed, by strangling and burning, at Vilvorde, near Brussels, Oct. 6, 1536. In November, 1866, a memorial to him was erected at his birthplace in Gloucestershire. The King James' version (1611) of the Bible is based on the translations by Tin-dale. See Life by Demaus.

Tintoretto, II (ttten-td-rfflt$), a great Venetian historical painter, was born in 1512. His real name was Jacopo Robusti, but he was called Tintoretto from the Venetian word meaning dyer, which was his father's trade. He was self-taught, except for a few lessons from Titian. He took as his motto: "The design of Michael An-gelo and the coloring of Titian." He sketched so fast that he was called The Madman. Among his famous pictures are Belshazzar's Feast, a fresco, The Last Supper, The Last Judgment, The Slaughter of the Innocents and Paradise. He died at the age of 82.

Tippecanoe (ftp*'pe-kd-nod'), Battle of, an engagement fought on Nov. 7, 1811, on Tippecanoe River in what then was Indiana Territory, over which Wm. Henry Harrison was governor, between disaffected Indians

and some 800 militiamen .and U. S. troops under Harrison. The cause of the native rising, which was incited by an Indian chief named Tecumseh (q. v.) and his brother, "the Prophet," was resentment over the seizure and sale of lands in Indiana Territory, which, the Indians claimed, were inalienably their own. Alarmed at the Indian attitude of menace, Harrison marched to and encamped near the Indian town of Tippecanoe. While there his command was attacked at night by a large force of Indians, who however, were beaten off with heavy loss. Harrison's losses were about 185; but his victory made him so popular that many years afterwards in the presidential campaign of 1840, when Harrison and Van Buren were candidates for the presidency, the war cry of the Whigs was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!'* Tecumseh, though not personally present in the battle, lost his influence in the Territory, and later fled to Canada, where he lost his life in the battle of Moraviantown during the War of 1812.

Tippecanoe, a river of Indiana, which rises in Lake Tippecanoe in the northern part of the state, flows southwest 200 miles, and falls into the Wabash, nine miles above Lafayette. On its banks was fought the battle of Nov. 7, 1811.

Tippoo Sahib (tip-poo' sd'hfib}, sultan of Mysore and son of Hyder AH, was born in 1749. He was brought up a Mohammedan, excelled as an athlete, and learned military tactics from the French officers in his father's service. He proved his prowess by routing the British at Perimbakum in 1780 and on Kolerun River in Tanjore in 1782. After being crowned he returned at once to the head of the army and captured Bednor in 1783. In his second war with the English (1790-92) he wasted the Carnatic almost to the gates of Madras, but was at last forced to give up part of his dominions and make peace. The English again attacked Tippoo in 1799, and while bravely defending his capital, Seringapatam, he was killed (May 4, 1799). Tippoo was very popular among his people, who looked upon him as a martyr to the Mohammedan cause.

Tirlemont (ter'l-mon'}, a city in Brabant Province, Belgium, 30 miles east of Brussels. Population 17,850. Here the French general Dumouriez routed the Aus-trians on March 16, 1793, thus winning a most important battle.

Tiryns (tl'rinz}, one of the very oldest cities of Greece, was in Argolis in the Peloponnesus. According to the account handed down, it was founded by Prcetus, a king of Argolis, and its walls were built by the Cyclopes. Here Hercules passed his boyhood. Probably about 468 B. C. the city was destroyed by the Argives. The ruins are one of the finest specimens of what is called cyclopean architecture, and with those of the neighboring city of Mycenae