THETFORD MINES 



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THIRST 



(Peneus), a town of about 18,000 inhabitants, 

 and several other lines are distributed through- 

 out the region. 



Thessaly has an annual wheat crop of over 

 4,000,000 bushels, and it yields large quantities 

 of ore and earths. B.M.W. 



Consult Wace and Thompson's Prehistoric 

 Thessaly. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Jason Philip II 



Olympus Tempe, Vale of 



THET'FORD MINES, a city in Megantic 

 County, Quebec. It is the center of the world's 

 richest asbestos mining district. Thetford 

 Mines is on the Quebec Central Railway, sev- 

 enty-six miles southwest of Quebec. Aside 

 from the asbestos mines, the city is of little 

 interest, its only important industrial establish- 

 ments being sawmills, sash and door factories 

 and foundries. Population in 1911, 7,261; in 

 1916, estimated 8,500. 



THE ' TIS , in Grecian mythology, one of the 

 sea nymphs, wife of Peleus and mother of 

 Achilles. See MYTHOLOGY. 



THIERS, tyair, Louis ADOLPHE (1797-1877), 

 a French statesman, historian and President of 

 the republic, who proved his ability and pa- 

 triotism at one of the most trying times in the 

 history of his country, at the conclusion of the 

 Franco - German 

 War. He was 

 born in Marseilles 

 and educated for 

 the law, but find- 

 ing a literary and 

 j ournalistic career 

 much more to his 

 liking, in 1818 

 went to Paris to 

 write for the Con- 

 stitutionnel His 

 Liberal tenden- 

 cies led him to 



undertake a His- Present republic of France. 

 tory of the French Revolution in ten volumes, 

 the last of which was published in 1827. This 

 became extremely popular, despite the fact that 

 like all of Thiers' work it was open to the 

 charge of inaccuracy and unfairness. The Na- 

 tionnel, a paper established by him in 1830 as an 

 opposition organ to the government, had much 

 to do with the Revolution of 1830 which placed 

 Louis Philippe on the throne. 



Under the new monarchy Thiers became a 

 member of the Chamber of Deputies, and be- 



LOUIS ADOLPH THIERS 

 The first President of the 



tween 1832 and 1836 held various offices in the 

 Ministry, much of the time being virtually 

 Prime Minister. He resigned in 1836, but in 

 1840 again became Premier, only to be driven 

 from office by the king's attitude toward his 

 policy of favoring Mehemet Ali in his conflict 

 with Turkey. For some years then he devoted 

 himself to literary affairs, chiefly to his Consu- 

 late and Empire, but when the Revolution of 

 1848 broke out he supported it and favored the 

 establishment of a republic. Louis Napoleon 

 suspected him, and had him banished in 1851, 

 but allowed him to return the next year. 



His speeches in the Chamber of Deputies 

 constantly called attention to the unenviable 

 position of France among the nations and so 

 did much to bring on the Franco-German War, 

 but he opposed that struggle and throughout it 

 labored zealously to gain from the other Euro- 

 pean powers aid for his country. With the de- 

 feat of France his opportunity came. He was 

 made "chief of the executive power" in the 

 provisional government and brought about 

 peace with Germany. With great vigor, too, he 

 put down the war of the Commune, and in 

 August, 1871, for his services he was declared 

 President for three years. The indomitable 

 spirit and will which had enabled him to help 

 his country in its extremity had won for him 

 enemies, and by 1873 the opposition had be- 

 come so pronounced that he resigned. From 

 1876 until his death he was an influential mem- 

 ber of the Chamber of Deputies. A.MC c. 



See, in this connection, FRANCO-GKRMAN WAR ; 

 also FRANCE, subtitle History, relating to the 

 period ; GERMANY, subtitle History, descriptive of 

 the period of the war of 1870-1871, the Franco- 

 German conflict. 



THIRST, that sensation by which the body 

 announces its need of water. It is one of the 

 common sensations, as distinguished from the 

 special (see SENSES, SPECIAL), and is thus in the 

 same group as hunger, pain and fatigue. Be- 

 cause the mouth and throat feel dry when one 

 is thirsty, the sensation seems to be a local one. 

 As a matter of fact it is general, for it can be 

 satisfied by injecting fluids into the tissues or 

 veins or by absorption of water through the 

 skin; on the other hand, moistening the mouth 

 without taking water into the system affords 

 only momentary relief. 



Water is absolutely essential to the mainte- 

 nance of life. It forms almost three-fourths of 

 the weight of the body and is found in all its 

 organs and tissues. While it is taken into the 

 body every day through the process of eating, 



