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mand of chiefs White Loon, Stone Eater, 

 Winnemac and the Prophet. It was fought 

 November 7, 1811, in Tippecanoe County, In- 

 diana, on the Tippecanoe River. The battle 

 brought General Harrison into such prominence 

 that he was made commander of the American 

 troops in the West, and the nickname "Tippe- 

 canoe," which he won at the time, was used 

 effectively in the campaign which gained for him 

 the Presidency (see his biography, page 2702). 

 Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, had 

 roused the Indians of the Northwest, and Gen- 

 eral Harrison decided to subdue them by force 

 or secure a treaty from them. He arranged to 

 meet the Prophet at the Indian headquarters 

 on the Tippecanoe River, but before the con- 

 ference could be held the Indians attacked the 

 American camp. The Indians were driven from 

 the field after a battle which lasted two hours, 

 and the militia completely destroyed the Indian 

 village. This battle was followed by a general 

 uprising among the Indians of the Northwest 

 in connection with the War of 1812. See TE- 

 CUMSEH. 



TISSOT, teso' , JAMES JOSEPH JACQUES (1836- 

 1902), a French artist whose fame rests chiefly 

 on a series of water-color paintings depicting 

 the life of Christ. The collection, which con- 

 sists of 350 studies, is now the possession of the 

 Brooklyn Institute Museum. To obtain ma- 

 terial for this labor Tissot spent ten years in 

 the Holy Land, and he painted with painstak- 

 ing attention to detail and extraordinary real- 

 ism. At the time of his death he was working 

 on a similar series illustrating Old Testament 

 stories. It is a curious fact that during the first 

 part of Tissot's career he depicted the worldly 

 and sensual aspects of life in Paris, and it is 

 supposed that his decision to paint religious 

 scenes was the result of a spiritual change 

 within him. These earlier pictures are repre- 

 sented by the series La Femme a Paris ("The 

 Parisian Woman"). A well-known Faust and 

 Marguerite is the property of the Luxembourg 

 Gallery. 



TISSUE, tish'u, in physiology an organiza- 

 tion of cells grouped together for the purpose 

 of doing a special work. There are six impor- 

 tant kinds of tissues muscular, epithelial, 

 nervous, connective, osseous and adipose. Mus- 

 cular tissue is made up of ribbonlike cells that 

 have control of bodily movements. Epithelial 

 tissue is that which covers the exterior of the 

 body and lines the cavities connecting with the 

 surface. The nerves are composed of nervous 

 tissue. Connective tissue surrounds the cells 



and holds each in place. Elastic tissue is a spe- 

 cial kind of connective tissue. The strong, 

 rigid tissue forming the bones is called osseous 

 tissue. The joints at the ends of bones are 

 surrounded by cartilaginous tissue. Adipose 

 tissue forms the fatty portions of the body. 



Related Subjects. For a detailed discussion 

 of these various tissues consult in these volumes 

 the following articles : 

 Bone Membranes 



Cartilage Muscle 



Cell Nervous System 



Joints Skin 



Ligament Tendons 



TITANIC, titan'ik, THE, a steamship of the 

 White Star Line which collided with an iceberg 

 on its first trip from Liverpool to New York 

 and sank within a little over two hours. The 

 disaster occurred on April 14, 1912, when the 

 steamer was about 1,600 miles northeast of 

 New York. By means of lifeboats and rafts 

 706 persons were saved, to be rescued later by 

 the Carpathia, which had received the wireless 

 calls for help, but all the rest of the 2,223 souls 

 on board, including 832 passengers and 685 of 

 the crew, perished. At the time it was launched 

 the Titanic was the largest ship afloat, but 

 others of greater dimensions have since been 

 built. Its length was 852.5 feet; beam, 92.5 

 feet; depth, 73 feet, 3 inches; gross tonnage, 

 46,328. Its speed was twenty-one knots (about 

 twenty-four miles) per hour. 



TITANIUM, tita'nium, a metallic element 

 which imparts toughness and hardness to steel 

 and luster to silver, and increases the bright- 

 ness of the flame of an arc lamp when com- 

 bined with the carbon. It is therefore used in 

 the manufacture of filaments for such lamps. 

 Titanium was discovered in 1789. It is not 

 found native, but when prepared artificially is 

 a greenish-gray powder with a bright, metallic 

 luster. It possesses to a remarkable degree the 

 power of combining with nitrogen at a high 

 temperature. Metals in which it occurs are 

 said to be titaniferous. Though nowhere found 

 abundantly it is widely distributed, and occurs 

 in many iron ores. It is also one of the ele- 

 ments known to be in the sun. In the United 

 States it is obtained in commercial quantities 

 from rutile (which' see). 



TITANS, ti'tanz, in Greek mythology, the 

 giant sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) 

 and Terra, or Gaea (Earth). Six of them were 

 men, and six were women. The latter were 

 called the Titanides. So strong were the Titans 

 that Uranus greatly feared them and threw 

 them from Olympus down into a dark cavern 



