SINIS, a Corinthian highwayman, surnamed “The Pine-Bender,” from his custom of attaching the limbs of his victims to two opposite pines forcibly bent down. Immediately the trees were released they bounded back, tearing the victim limb from limb.--_Grecian Story._ TER´MEROS, a robber of Peloponnesos, who killed his victims by cracking their skulls against his own. TURPIN (_Dick_), a noted highwayman (1711-1739). His ride to York is described by H. Ainsworth in his _Rookwood_ (1834). WHITNEY (_James_), the last of the “gentlemanly” highwaymen. He prided himself on being “the glass of fashion and the mould of form.” Executed at Porter’s Block, near Smithfield (1660-1694). WILD (_Jonathan_), a cool, calculating, heartless villain, with the voice of a Stentor. He was born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, and, like Sheppard, was the son of a carpenter. Unlike Sheppard, this cold-blooded villain was universally execrated. He was hanged at Tyburn (1682-1725). ⁂ Defoe made _Jonathan Wild_ the hero of a romance in 1725; Fielding in 1744. =Thirlmore= (_Rev. and Col._), ambitious, able man, first a popular, sensational preacher, then, as the bubble breaks, a farmer and stock-raiser, lastly an officer in the U. S. Army, during the Civil War. In the varied experiences of the latter career, the selfishness which has marred his character sloughs off, and the _man_ appears.--William M. Baker, _His Majesty, Myself_ (1879) and _The Making of a Man_ (1881). =Third Founder of Rome= (_The_), Caius Marius. He was so called, because he overthrew the multitudinous hordes of Cambrians and Teutons, who came to lick up the Romans as the oxen of the field lick up grass (B.C. 102). ⁂ The first founder was Romulus, and the second Camillus. =Thirsil and Thelgon=, two gentle swains who were kinsmen. Thelgon exhorts Thirsil to wake his “too long sleeping Muse;” and Thirsil, having collected the nymphs and shepherds around him, sang to them the song of _The Purple Island_.--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, i., ii. (1633). =Thirsty= (_The_), Colman Itadach, surnamed “The Thirsty,” was a monk of the rule of St. Patrick. Itadach, in strict observance of the Patrician rule, refused to quench his thirst even in the harvest-field, and died in consequence. =Thirteen Precious Things of Britain.= 1. DYRNWYN (the sword of Rhydderch Hael). If any man except Hael drew this blade, it burst into a flame from point to hilt. 2. THE BASKET OF GWYDDNO GARANHIR. If food for one man were put therein, it multiplied till it sufficed for a hundred. 3. THE HORN OF BRAN GALED, in which was always found the very beverage that each drinker most desired. 4. THE PLATTER OF RHEGYNYDD YSGOLHAIG, which always contained the very food that the eater most liked. 5. THE CHARIOT OF MORGAN MWYNVAWR. Whoever sat therein was transported instantaneously to the place he wished to go to.