Darlingtonia
a genus of pitcherplants, belonging to the order Sarraceniacalifornica ceæ (sarraceniads). The D. grows in the N. part of California, Mount chiefly in the district around Shasta. It is found in boggy places, on the slopes of mountains. It entraps insects, which are attracted to the curious pitcher or hood at the extremity of the are pretubular leaves; and, once inside, vented by the fine hairs which point from again returning. The downward larva of a small moth, Xanthoptera semiand that of a crocea, preys on the plant, dipterous insect, Sarcophaga sarraceniæ, which it infeeds on the dead insects closes.
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Darmstadt
a town in Germany; capital of the republic of Hesse, in a sandy plain, on the Darm, 15 of an miles S. of Frankfort. It consists old and a new town. The former, which is the business part of the town, is very poorly built; the houses are old, and the streets narrow and gloomy. The new town is laid out with great regularity, and has handsome squares and houses. Among the remarkable buildings are the old palace (with a library of 500,000 volumes and 4,000 MSS., a picture gallery, , and a rich museum of natural history) the Ratthe Roman Catholic Church, and haus or town-hall built in 1580. Darmstadt before the World War had iron foundries, breweries, etc. Pop. about 90,000.
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Darnel
the popular name for Lolium tenulentum, which some suppose to be the Infelix lolium of Vergil and the zizania or tares of Scripture. It was beand lieved by the ancients to be poisonous cornfields. It narcotic. It is common in has culms one to two feet high, the spike being like that of Triticum repens, the wheat-grass or couch-grass.
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Darnley
HENRY STUART, LORD, son of the Earl of Lennox and Lady Margaret Douglas, a niece of Henry VIII., and by her first marriage queen of James IV.; born 1541. In 1565 he was married to Mary Queen of Scots. It was an unfortunate match. Dislike developed open hatred, which the murder of Rizzio, to which Darnley was a party, served to increase. After Mary gave birth to a son, subsequently James VI, Darnley was seized at Glasgow with smallpox, from which he had barely recovered when Mary visited him, and had him conveyed to an isolated house called Kirk of Field, close to the Edinburgh city walls. This dwelling, which belonged to a retainer of Bothwell's, the rapidly rising favorite, was blown into the air with gunpowder, Feb. 10, 1567. The dead bodies of the king and his page were found in a field at a distance of 80 yards from any mark from the house, quite free which such an explosion would cause. Strong circumstantial evidence points to Bothwell as the murderer, and to Mary as an accomplice in the crime.
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Darrow
CLARENCE S., an American lawyer, born in Kinsman, O., in public 1857. He was educated in the schools of Ohio and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1875. He was for some time attorney of the Northwestern railroad, but was chiefly identiin fied with cases against monopolies people which he took the part of the against the trusts. He was chief counsel of the anthracite miners in the anthracite coal strike arbitration in 1902-1903. He was also counsel in the Debs strike case of labor injuncand in a large number tion and labor conspiracy cases, taking the side of labor. He served in the Illiwon nois State Legislature in 1902. He for the special prominence as counsel McNamara brothers in the Los Angeles "Times" dynamite case in 1911. He was counsel for Eugene V. Debs for conspiring to hinder the operation of the draft law in 1917. He was the author of a volume of essays and many pamphlets on social and economic questions. DARTER. (1) an order in McGillivray's classification of birds, containing -eaters, and jacamars, the kingfishers, bee onto so called from their habit of darting their prey. (2) A genus of web-footed swimming birds belonging to the Pelicanide. The neck in all is exceedingly long. Plotus melanogaster is the snake-bird, so called from the serpent-like form of the neck and head. The darters are natives of tropical America and Africa, and of Australia.
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Darter
. See Anhinga
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Dartford
a thriving market-town of Kent, England; in the narrow valley of the Darent, 2 miles above its influx to the Thames, and 17 E. S. E. of London. Edward III. here founded an Augustinian nunnery (1355); St. Edmund's chantry was a great place of pilgrimage; and at Dartford Wat Tyler began his rebellion (1381). Pop., about 40,000.
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Dartmouth
a town of Massachusetts, in Bristol co. It is on the Paskamansett river. Its chief industries are poultry raising and dairying. There are also manufactures of box boards. There are three public libraries and other public buildings. The surrounding country is a well-known summer resort. Pop. (1910) 4,378; (1920) 6,493.
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Dartmouth College
an educational (non-sect.) institution in Hanover, N. H.; founded in 1769; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 121; students, 1,673; volumes in the library, 150,000; productive funds, $4,500,- 000; income, $450,000; president, Ernest Mark Hopkins, Litt.D., LL.D.
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Daru
PIERRE ANTOINE NOËL BRUNO, COMTE (dä-rü'), a French statesman, born in Montpellier, Jan. 12, 1767. At the age of 16 he entered the army, and at the breaking out of the Revolution adopted its principles. He attracted the notice of the First Consul, and, in 1802, became a member of the Tribunate. In 1805 he was made a councillor of state, and general intendant of the imperial household. He subsequently became the confidential friend of the emperor, and his prime minister. In 1812 he opposed the expedition to Russia. On the abdication of Napoleon, he retired from public life, and, although exiled by the first government of the restored Bourbons, was recalled in 1819, and made a peer of France. He afterward wrote a "Life of Sully" and a "History of Venice." He died Sept. 5, 1829 .
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Dasheen
a potato-like vegetable recently introduced into the southern United States from the tropics. It is wholesome and nutritious, much like the white potato in general composition, but with less water and a higher percentage of protein and carbohydrates. Its cultivation and use are advocated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. DOPPLER'S PRINCIPLE OR THE
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