TIE 



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TIFLIS 



TIE, in music, the name given to a slightly- 

 curved line which connects two like notes or 

 tones. They are then played or sung as one. 

 See page 4025. 



TIEN-TSIN, te en' tseen' , a Chinese city in 

 the province of Chi-li, first opened to foreign 

 trade and settlement by a treaty negotiated in 

 1860, and now one of the busiest ports in the 

 country. It lies on the Pei-ho where that river 

 meets the Grand Canal, and is about seventy 

 miles southeast of Peking (see map of Asia, 

 opposite page 417). Surrounded by walls of 

 brick and stone, and with dirty streets and un- 

 attractive brick or mud dwelling houses, native 

 Tien-tsin is still typically Chinese. The foreign 

 settlement, however, which is known as Red 

 Bamboo Grove, is a modern European city, with 

 a fine driveway along the river, good streets, 

 gas and electricity, attractive homes and pub- 

 lic buildings, and schools, hospitals and clubs. 

 This section is situated about a mile and a half 

 below the Chinese city, and is the center of im- 

 portant business interests. Population, 800,000. 



Tien-tsin has railway connections with Pe- 

 king, the coal district of Kaiping, Manchuria, 

 and Hankow (by way of Paotingfu and Ching- 

 ting). The import and export trade is very 

 large, both with foreign and domestic ports. 

 Exports include straw braid, furs, hides, camels' 

 wool, tobacco, wood and coal, and the imports, 

 woolen goods, jeans, sugar, rice, grain, petro- 

 leum, tea, opium, paper, steel and salt. The 

 caravans engaged in transporting tea to Asiatic 

 Russia made Tien-tsin their starting point. 



TIERRA DEL FUEGO, tyer'rah del jwa' go, 



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TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



an island group lying off the southern extremity 

 of the South American continent, from which 

 it is separated by the Strait of Magellan. The 

 archipelago was discovered in 1520 by Magel- 

 lan. These islands have a total area of about 

 27,000 square miles, but over four-fifths of this 

 territory is included in the area of one large 

 island, sometimes known as King Charles South 

 Land, but more generally as East Tierra del 

 Fuego. The archipelago is divided politically 

 into two sections, one the possession of Argen- 

 tina and the other of Chile. The Argentina 

 portion consists of the eastern part of the main 

 island and Isle de los Estados, or Staten Island, 

 an isolated island on the extreme east. The 

 rest of the archipelago belongs to the Chilean 

 Territory of Magallanes. 



The small islands constituting the Chilean 

 division end at the extreme south in Horn 

 Island, on the southern end of which is the 

 famous cape called by the sailors "the Horn." 

 The principal town of the Chilean section is 

 Punta Arenas (population 10,500), the world's 

 southernmost city. 



TIFFIN, tiy in, OHIO, the county seat of 

 Seneca County, situated west of center in the 

 northern part of the state, forty-two miles 

 southeast of Toledo. It is on the Sandusky 

 River and on the Baltimore & Ohio, the Cleve- 

 land, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis and the 

 Pennsylvania railroads. An electric interur- 

 ban line extends west to Fostoria. The popu- 

 lation, which is more than forty per cent Ger- 

 man, was 11,894 in 1910; it was 12,867 in 1916 

 (Federal estimate). 



Tiffin has Heidelberg University, Ursuline 

 College, a Federal building completed in 1916 

 at a cost of $200,000, a Carnegie Library and 

 the National Orphans' Home of the Junior Or- 

 der of United American Mechanics. Conven- 

 ient deposits of clay and glass sand furnish ma- 

 terials for potteries and glassworks. Among 

 the industrial plants are manufactories of fur- 

 niture, wagons and carriages, elevating and 

 hoisting machinery, nuts and bolts, sanitary 

 ware, stoves and mittens. The adjacent coun- 

 try is agricultural and brings the city a large 

 trade. Tiffin was settled in 1817, incorporated 

 in 1835 and made a^city in 1836. H.K.C. 



TIFLIS, te flees', a trade center of Rus- 

 sian Transcaucasia, of which it is the seat of 

 government. It is situated in a beautiful val- 

 ley of the Caucasus Mountains, on the Kur 

 River. The Caspian seaport of Baku lies 340 

 miles to the southeast. In the Russian section 

 there are fine public buildings, modern shops 



