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TISTA, a river of northern India, which rises on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, and flows through the mountain gorges of Sikkim and Darieeling, till it spills itself over the plain of Eastern Bengal. In the i8th century its course was due south to join the G ...

TIPSTAFF (Mid. Enp. tipped staf), a staff of office mounted with a tip or cap of metal, or with a crown, carried by a constable or sheriff's officer, the term being hence applied to such an officer. Tipstaffs are attached to the king's bench and chancery divis

... anisms which possess some of the characters of both classes or kingdoms (see PROTISTA). The actual boundaries between animals and plants are artificial; they are rather due to the ingenious analysis of the systematist than actually resident in objective nature ...

... ing a farm of the taxes, or contract. The farmer or contractor is called an asentista. The word acquired a considerable notoriety in English and American history, on account of the " Asiento Treaty " of 1 7 1 3. Until 1 702 the Spanish government had given the ...

... sit; and at length the opportunity came to fulfil his dream of seeing Italy. Baptista Boerio, the king's physician, engaged him to accompany his two sons thither as supervisor of their studies. In September 1506 he set foot on that sacred soil, and took his D. ...

... plans and the superintendence of the work were entrusted by the king to Juan Bautista de Toledo, a Spanish architect who had received most of his professional education in Italy. The first stone was laid in April 1563; and under the king's personal inspection ...

... gnity. Brunelleschi was followed by another great Florentine architect, Leon Battista Albert!, who was also a great mathematician and a scholar, and further promoted the study of classic architecture by writing a treatise in Latin, Opus pratstanlissimum de re ...

... Maria Baron de Ripperda. Domingo Cabello. Rafael Pacheco. Manuel Munoz. Juan Bautista Elguezabal. Antonio Cordero. Manuel de Salcedo. Juan Bautista Casas, provisional. Manuel de Salcedo. Christoval Dominquez. Antonio Martinez. Mexican Period (1821-36)' Trespal ...

TOPETE, JUAN BAUPTISTA (1821-1885), Spanish naval commander and politician, was born in Mexico on the 24th of May 1821. His father and grandfather were also Spanish admirals. He entered the navy at the age of seventeen, cut out a Carlist vessel in 1839, became ...

... lations of the Heroycatt Epistles of Ovid, and of the Eglogs of Mantuan (Gianbattista Spagnuoli, called Mantuanus), and in 1568 A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue from Dominicus Mancinus. The Book of Falconry or Hawking and the Noble Art of Venerie (printed toget ...

... l, and others). The church of S. Maria della Purita has frescoes by Giovanni Battista and Domenico Tiepolo. In the principal square stands the town hall, built in 1448-1457 in the VenetianGothic style, and skilfully restored after a fire in 1876; opposite is a ...