Dairen
or DALNY, a port on the peninsula of Liao-tung, Manchuria, about 19 miles N. of Port Arthur. The large harbor is ice-free and affords anchorage for ocean-going vessels. Considerable trade passes through it between Russia, Japan, and China, and the trade continually increases. The Japanese occupied it in 1904 and it was included in the lease to Japan of the Liao-tung peninsula in 1904 (extended in 1915 to 99 years) becoming in 1906 a free port. The port serves as the eastern terminus to the Siberian Railway, and is connected by rail with Mukden, Harbin, and the East China railway system. Dalny is the customs port for all leased territory, and the seat of the Japanese governor-general and administration. Imports (1918), 83,521,131 haikwan taels (tael=about $1.00); exports, 91,301,399 yen. During 1920 it figured in the Japanese operations against Russia. Pop. about 55,000.
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Daiver-Logum
The dwelling place of the daivers (q.v.) a species of Hindoo genii. Besides the daivers, who number three hundred and thirty millions, there dwell in the Daiver- Logum those heroes and prophets who are not yet fit for the paradise of Shiva or of Vishnu.
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Dakin's Solution
a preparation of sodium hypochlorite, containing boric acid. It is prepared by treating a solution of chlorinated lime with sodium carbonate, permitting the precipitated calcium carbonate to settle, syphoning off the clear liquor and neutralizing with boric acid. The resulting liquid is used as an antiseptic and came into prominence during the World War, when it was employed in the French military hospitals for irrigating wounds. The preparation was discovered by Berthollet in 1788, but was not commonly used until it was reintroduced by Doctor D. H. Dakin of New York, while he was serving as bacteriologist in France. The antiseptic action of the solution is one of oxidation, brought about either by the decomposition of the hypochlorite with indirectly formation of oxygen, or through the formation of chloroamide groups. DAKOTA. See NORTH DAKOTA; SOUTH DAKOTA.
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Dakota
a former territory of the United States . See North Dakota ; South Dakota
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Dakota
or DAKOTAH. See SIOUX. DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, an institution for higher education, founded at Mitchell, S. D., under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It includes a College of Liberal Arts, and schools of commerce, education, elocution, and art. In 1919 there were 32 instructors and 538 students. President, W. D. Schermerhorn, S. T. B.
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Dalan
A druid who figures in the medieval Irish legend of Conary Mor (q.v.).
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Dalecarlia
or DALARNE, a tract in Sweden. The name, meaning "valleyland," is kept alive in the minds of the inhabitants by the noble struggles which the Dalecarlians, its inhabitants, made to establish and maintain the independence of the country.
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Dallas
GEORGE MIFFLIN, an American diplomatist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1792. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1810. In 1813 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after entered the diplomatic service. In 1831 he was elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was United States minister to Russia from 1837 to 1839, and in 1844 was elected Vice-President of the United States. In 1846 his casting-vote as President of the Senate repealed the protective tariff of 1842, though he had previously been concourse on sidered a Protectionist. His this question aroused much indignation States in Pennsylvania. He was United 1856 to minister to Great Britain from 1861. He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.
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Dalles
dalz, a French word meaning slabs of stone. The name was applied by the French employes of the Hudson Bay Company to a number of rapids where the water falls by low leaps from one bench of stone to another. It then became a general name for a series of rapids, as the Dalles of the Wisconsin, the Dalles of the St. Croix. The most noted dalles are those of the Columbia River, a region of rare scenic beauty.
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Dalles (City and the countyseat)
THE, a city and the countyseat of Wasco co., Ore.; on the Columbia river, and on the Great Southern railroad, and on the line of the Oregon- Washington Railroad and Navigation Company; 85 miles E. of Portland. It is Columbia named after the rapids of the river near here; is a shipping point for grain, stock, and wool; and has tanneries, foundries, flour mills, canning factories, for etc. There is a Catholic seminary girls, an academy, a Carnegie library, a ) hospital, and public schools. Pop. (1910 4,880; (1920) 5,807.
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Dalles (Name given to cataracts)
the name given to cataracts in North various rapids and America. The Great Dalles of the Columbia are about 200 miles from the mouth of that river, where it is compressed by lofty basaltic rocks into a roar- ; the ing torrent about 58 yards in width series of Dalles of the St. Louis are a cataracts near Duluth, Minn.
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Dallin
CYRUS EDWIN, an Amer- , Utah ican sculptor, born in Springville , in the public in 1861. He was educated schools and studied art in Paris. In 1888 he received the gold medal of the in New York. American Art Association This was followed by many medals and was instructor prizes at exhibitions. He in sculpture at the Massachusetts State Boston. His works Normal Art School in are found in nearly every important art collection in the United States. He was an associate of the National Academy arand a member of many societies of tists and sculptors.
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Dalmores
CHARLES, a tenor; born at Nancy in 1871, he early violin began receiving instruction on the and entered the conservatory at Nancy with a view of becoming a violinist. This course he abandoned after he had broken his arm; he next took up the horn. He orchestra, began his career in the Colonne of and from 1888 to 1894 was a member latter the Lamoureux orchestra. In the year he became a teacher of the horn at be- Lyons, and there one of the masters gan training his voice. In 1899 he made his début at Rouen as a tenor, and in 1906 Oscar Hammerstein engaged him as one of the leading tenors for the Manhattan Opera House Company of New tenor York. In 1914 he became leading of the Chicago Opera Company. DALMY. See DAIREN.
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