=Ton-Thena= (“_fire of the wave_”), a remarkable star which guided Larthon to Ireland, as mentioned in Ossian’s _Tem´ora_, vii., and called in _Cathlin of Clutha_, “the red traveller of the clouds.” =Tonio=, a young Tyrolese, who saved Maria, the sutler-girl, when on the point of falling down a precipice. The two, of course, fall in love with each other, and the regiment, which had adopted the sutler-girl, consents to their marriage, provided Tonio will enlist under its flag. No sooner is this done than the marchioness of Berkenfield lays claim to Maria as her daughter, and removes her to the castle. In time, the castle is besieged and taken by the very regiment into which Tonio had enlisted, and, as Tonio had risen to the rank of a French officer, the marchioness consents to his marriage with her daughter.--Donizetti, _La Figlia del Reggimento_ (1840). =Tonna= (_Mrs._), Charlotte Elizabeth (1792-1846). =Tonto= (_Don Cherubin_), canon of Tole´do, the weakest mortal in the world, though, by his smirking air, you would fancy him a wit. When he hears a delicate performance read, he listens with such attention as seems full of intelligence, but all the while he understands nothing of the matter.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, v. 12 (1724). =Tonton=, the smallest dog that ever existed. When the three princes of a certain king were sent to procure the tiniest dog they could find, as a present to their aged father, the White Cat gave the youngest of them a dog, so small that it was packed in wadding in a common acorn shell. As soon as the acorn was opened, they all saw a little dog laid in cotton, and so small it might jump through a finger-ring without touching it.... It was a mixture of several colors; its ears and long hair reached to the ground. The prince set it on the ground, and forthwith the tiny creature began to dance a saraband with castanets.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The White Cat,” 1682) =Tony Lumpkin=, a young booby, fond of practical jokes, and low company. He was the son of Mrs. Hardcastle by her first husband.--Goldsmith, _She Stoops to Conquer_ (1773). =Tony Tyler=, on the editorial staff of the _Tecumseh Chronicle_. “He knows about eighteen hundred times as much as Samboye (managing editor) does, only somehow, he hasn’t the faculty of putting it on paper. Too much whiskey!”--Harold Frederic, Seth’s Brother’s Wife (1886). =Toodle=, engine-fireman, an honest fellow, very proud of his wife, Polly, and her family. _Polly Toodle_, known by the name of Richards, wife of the stoker. Polly was an apple-faced woman, and was mother of a large, apple-faced family. This jolly, homely, kind-hearted matron was selected as the nurse of Paul Dombey, and soon became devotedly attached to Paul and his sister, Florence.