Dandelion
the common and wellknown plant, Taraxacum Dens Leonis or officinale, belonging to the natural order which in the form of extract is used It contains a bitter crystalline principle called taraxacine. Its root has been used to adulterate coffee in a similar way to chicory. It has a naked, hollow stalk, with a single bright yellow flower. The blanched leaves are used as a winter salad, and the roots are eaten as such by the French. The seed is furnished with a fine white pappus, by means of which it is carried far and wide by the wind. The leaves are lanceolate and sinuous, rising from a tap-root in the form of a rosette.
DANDOLO (dän'dō-lō), a patrician family of Venice, which traced its origin DANDOLO (dän'dō-lō), a patrician to the Roman era. Its most illustrious member was: member was: which high office he was chosen in 1192, DANDOLO, ENRICO, Doge of Venice, to when in his 87th year. He carried on the war with the Pisans and closed it by an advantageous peace. In 1201 the and on their promise to reduce the town to help them. He accordingly undertook with them, in 1203, the siege of Conwith them, in 1203, the siege of Continguished himself, and was the first who leaped on shore. It is said that he had the offer of the imperial crown, and refused it. He was created despot of Rumania, and died 1205, at the age of 97.
Rumania, and died 1205, at the age of the name of the second in dignity of the Danish orders instituted by King Waldemar in 1219.
Danish orders instituted by King Walde- It ex- England allotted to the Danes by the Treaty of Wedmore in 878 A. D. tended from the E. coast to a line which ran from the Thames a little below London to Chester on the Dee. DANES. See DENMARK.
Hebrew family. In his youth, 605 в. c., he was carried captive to Babylon, and educated in the Babylonish court for the service of King Nebuchadnezzar. Thrown he was carried captive to Babylon, and educated in the Babylonish court for the lously preserved, and finally made primeminister in the court of the Persian king DANIELS Darius. He ranks with what are called the Old Testament which bears his name part. Modern criticism generally reof the Jews under Antiochus, about 170 part. Modern criticism generally regards it as written during the oppression Jews under Antiochus, about 170 ican educator, born in Boston in 1836. He graduated from Harvard in 1863 and entered the field of secondary education, in which he held a prominent part for over thirty years. He first served with of Latin in the Roxbury Latin School. then for seventeen years was instructor of Latin in the Roxbury Latin School.
For twelve years he was Headmaster of the Chauncy Hall School in Boston. His is widely used in the early study of Latin. is widely used in the early study of public official, born in 1862 in Washingpublic official, born in 1862 in Washingof the "Advance," a newspaper of Wilson, of the "Advance," a newspaper of Wilson, JOSEPHUS DANIELS N. C. Although he studied law and was admitted to the bar he never practiced work. In 1885 he became editor of the united this newspaper with another and published it as the "News and Observer."
From 1887 to 1893 he was State printer.
DANIELS From 1895 to 1912 he was prominent in National and State politics as a Bryan Democrat and took a considerable part in the election of Wilson to the presidency in 1912. In March of the next year he received the appointment of Secretary of the Navy. He gained prominence by his order forbidding officers to have liquor aboard their vessels and by banning the use of liquor by the officers and men of the navy. He also advocated government manufacture of armor and munitions. During the war with Germany the navy of the United States did its work effectively, and this was due largely to the efforts of Secretary Daniels. A controversy between him and Admiral Sims, as a result of the latter's criticism of navy administration during the war was followed by a Senatorial investigation in 1920.