Temiscoiata

Temiscoiata, an E. county of Quebec, Canada, bounded N. W. by the St. Lawrence river and S. E. by New Brunswick; area, 1,771 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 22,491, of whom 21,809 were of French origin or descent. It is watered by the Trois Pistoles and Madawaska rivers and other streams, and contains Lake Temiscouata, 30 m. long and from ½, m. to 1½; m. wide, the source of the Madawaska. It is traversed by the Grand Trunk and Intercolonial railways. Capital, Isle Verte.

Tempe

Tempe, a valley of Greece, in the northeast of Thessaly, between Mts. Olympus and Ossa, celebrated in antiquity for its beauty. Poets and rhetoricians often mentioned it as a type of sylvan loveliness, and it was also famed as a haunt of Apollo. It was with laurel from Tempe that the victors in the Pythian games were crowned. The most accurate description of the famous pass is that of Livy. The lofty cliffs rise almost perpendicularly on either side, and the Peneus rushes through the middle of the valley. The defile is about 5 m. in length, and is so narrow in parts as to afford space only for the river and the road. Right and left are the ruins of ancient fortresses, and numerous tumuli are seen.

Temperance Societies

See Total Abstinence.

Temperature Ok Fusion

Mercury........ -39.44° C.

Potassium______ +62 50

Sodium.......... 9.V60

Tin.............. 222

Lead............ 335

Zinc............ 412

Antimony....... 450

Silver........... 1000

Copper.......... 1200

Gold............ 1200

Wrought iron.... 1800 Platinum, fusible only by oxy-hvdrogen blowpipe.

Tempered Glass

Tempered Glass, a peculiar condition of glass which has recently been produced by M. de la Bastie of France, by subjecting it while hot to the action of a bath of prepared oil, in which it is enclosed to prevent ignition. This treatment appears to confer a certain degree of toughness to the exterior, which enables it to bear much harder blows than common glass. When broken, however, it crumbles into dust or small fragments, like Prince Ruperts drops, and it cannot like ordinary glass be cut with a diamond into regular forms, but crumbles under the instrument. An attempt to grind it, or to cut it with the sand blast to any depth, produces disintegration. This indicates that the molecules are held together under a condition of strain, and an optical examination supports the same conclusion.

Temple Of Bells

Temple Of Bells. See Babel, and Babylon.

Tenant

See Lease, and Tenure.

Tench Coxe

Tench Coxe, an American writer on political economy, born in 1756, died in Philadelphia, July 16, 1824. He was a commissioner to the federal convention at Annapolis in 1786; member of the continental congress in 1788; assistant secretary of the treasury in 1790; and he held other offices under the government. He was the author of "An Inquiry into the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States" (1787); "View of the United States" (1794); Thoughts on Naval Power and the Encouragement of Commerce and Manufactures" (1806); "Memoir on the Cultivation, Trade, and Manufacture of Cotton" (1807); "On the Navigation Act"(1809); and " On the Arts and Manufactures of the United States" (1814).