TENNESSEE 



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TENNYSON 



one shilling, sixpence, and a beaver skin at six 

 shillings. 



Warren County, Tennessee, is circular in 

 shape and Overton is nearly so. 



Violent storms of any sort are rare in this 

 state, and the average velocity of the winds is 

 low. 



The Ku-Klux Klan began as a mere youthful 

 prank, at Pulaski, Tennessee, but in a short 

 time spread over the entire South. 



Three Presidents of the United States, Jack- 

 son, Polk and Johnson, are buried in Tennessee, 

 Jackson at "The Hermitage," Polk at Nash- 

 ville, and Johnson at Greeneville. E.B.P. 



Consult McGee's History of Tennessee; Hay- 

 wood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Tennessee will find much that is helpful 

 in the following articles in these volumes: 



Bristol 

 Chattanooga 

 Jackson 

 Johnson City 



CITIES 



Knoxville 

 Memphis 

 Nashville 



HISTORY 



Chattanooga, Battle of Lookout Mountain, 

 Fort Henry and Fort subhead Battle of 



Donelson Lookout Mountain 



Frankland Murfreesboro, Battle of 



Ku-Klux Klan Shiloh, Battle of 



Coke 



Cotton 



Iron 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Phosphates 

 Tobacco 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Cumberland Mountains Mississippi River 

 Cumberland River Tennessee River 



TENNESSEE, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeduca- 

 tional institution, located at Knoxville, one of 

 the largest state institutions in the South. It 

 was first chartered in 1794 as Blount College and 

 became the University of Tennessee in 1879. 

 The university is organized into the colleges of 

 liberal arts, commerce, engineering, agriculture, 

 law, medicine (including the school of phar- 

 macy), dentistry, the summer school and the 

 graduate school. The colleges of medicine and 

 dentistry are at Memphis. In 1902 a teachers' 

 summer school was opened on the campus, and 

 it now has an enrolment of nearly 3,000 stu- 

 dents. As a part of the extension work of the 

 university, short courses in agriculture are given 

 during the winter in a number of places 

 throughout the state. The faculty numbers 

 about 200, and the student enrolment is over 

 4,500. There are 40,000 volumes in the library. 



TENNESSEE RIVER, the largest tributary 

 of the Ohio, formed by the meeting of the 



Holston and the North Fork rivers at Kings- 

 port, Tenn. These rivers rise in the Virginia 

 Alleghanies. The main stream flows southwest- 

 ward through Tennessee, enters Alabama at its 

 northeast corner, dips in a great curve and 

 flows out again at its northwest corner, re- 

 entering Tennessee. It then flows northward 

 through that state and northwest across Ken- 

 tucky, joining the Ohio at Paducah. Including 

 the Holston, it is 1,200 miles long. Since the 

 completion of the Muscle Shoals Canal (1889) 

 around the shoals between Florence and Deca- 

 tur, Ala v the Tennessee has been made navi- 

 gable for a distance of over 500 miles, and is 

 used for transporting farm merchandise, lum- 

 ber, iron ore and cotton. 



TENNIEL, ten' y el, SIR JOHN (1820-1914), an 

 English cartoonist and book illustrator, famed 

 for his political cartoons made for Punch, and 

 for his inimitable illustrations that add so 

 much to the charm of Carroll's Alice in Won- 

 derland and Through the Looking-glass. He 

 was born in London, and was practically a self- 

 trained artist. When he became cartoonist for 

 Punch, in 1851, he had already won distinction 

 as the painter of a fresco, Saint Cecilia, for the 

 House of Lords. His position on the staff of 

 Punch was retained for half a century. Ten- 

 niel's work was admired for its originality and 

 dignity, no less than for excellence of tech- 

 nique. Besides the Alice books he illustrated 

 Aesop's Fables, Moore's Lalla Rookh, The In- 

 goldsby Legends and various other works. 



TENNIS, ten' is, a game for two players, 

 which was the forerunner of lawn tennis. It is 

 played on an oblong covered court with a ball 

 about two and one-half inches in diameter, and 

 a racket heavier and with a smaller face than 

 that used in the better known form of the 

 game. At one end of the court is a division for 

 spectators, called a dedans. The scoring and 

 the object of the game are much the same as 

 in lawn tennis, which is now usually called 

 simply tennis. See LAWN TENNIS. 



TENNYSON, ten' i sun, ALFRED (1809-1892), 

 one of the great English poets of the Victorian 

 Age, was born August 6, 1809. His father, the 

 rector of Somersby, was a man of learning and 

 of refined taste, and in the home a vivid 

 imagination and a love for beauty were devel- 

 oped in Alfred and his brothers and sisters by 

 familiarity with fairy legends and other fanciful 

 tales. When seven years old, Alfred was sent 

 to the Louth Grammar School, where he re- 

 mained five years, and from that time on his 

 education was cared for by his father until 



