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LEFT DOVEB 412 BOWDEN built up chiefly with brick. Among its noteworthy buildings are a handsome State house, large court house, and new United States Government building. Con- nected with the State house is a State library with upward of 80,000 volumes. There are several churches, a National and a State bank, fruit evaporating and packing- establishments, steam flour mill, foundry, machine shop, and sash, fruit crate, glass, and carriage factories. DOVER, a city and county-seat of Strafford co., N. H.; at the head of navi- gation on Cocheco river, and on the Bos- ton and Maine railroad; 168 miles N. N. E. of Boston. It is situated on hilly ground, is regularly laid out, and has many handsome buildings and residences. The river at this point has a depth of 11 feet, affording good shipping accommo- dations. The falls of Cocheco, within the city limits, are the source of abundant water power. Dover's industries include several large cotton and woolen mills, an extensive print works, manufactories of boots and shoes, oil cloth, hats and caps, and several tanneries, brass and iron foundries, and machine shops. There are several churches, high school, St. Jo- seph's Hill School, Franklin Academy, National banks, several savings banks, daily and weekly newspapers. There are monuments to persons distinguished in Revolutionary history. It is the oldest city in the State; settled in 1623; nearly destroyed by the Indians in 1689; and chartered as a city in 1855. Pop. (1910) 13,247; (1920) 13,029. DOVER, a city in Morris co., N. J.; on the Rockaway river, the Lackawanna and the New Jersey Central railroads, and the Morris and Essex canal; 28 miles W. of Newark. It has extensive iron interests, railroad shops, machine shops, furnace and stove factories, and silk and hosiery mills. Five miles dis- tant is a government powder magazine. Nearby are Lake Hopatcong, Mt. Ar- lington, Budd's Lake, and Schooley's Mountain, all noted summer resorts. The city has a high school, several churches, business college, daily and weekly news- papers, electric lights, and National bank. Pop. (1910) 7,468; (1920) 9,803. DOVER, a city of Ohio, in Tuscarawas CO. It was formerly known as Canal Dover. The city is on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and other rail- roads. It is an important industrial cen- ter and has a large plant of the United States Steel Corporation and several im- portant coke and coal companies. It has also important plants for manufacturing electrical devices. Pop. (1910) 6.621; (1920) 8,101. DOVER, STRAITS OF, the narrow channel between Dover and Calais which separates Great Britain from the French coast. At the narrowest part it is only 21 miles wide. DOVER'S POWDER, a powder com- pounded of 10 parts each of ipecacuanha and powdered opium, and 80 parts of sul- phate of potash. It is employed as a sudorific and sedative. DOW, ABTHUR WESLEY, an Amer- ican artist; born at Ipswich, Mass. He was educated in Boston and Paris. He exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1886- 1887. He was for some time curator of Japanese art in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and from 1895 to 1304 he was instructor in art at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and instructor in composition at the Art Students' League from 1897 to 1903. From 1904 h? was professor of fine arts in the Teachers' College, Columbia University. He wrote "Compositions" (1898), and published several books of color prints of especially high merit. DOW, or DOUW (properly Dou), OERARD, a Dutch painter, the son of a glazier; bom in Leyden, April 7, 1613. He studied under Rembrandt, and united his master's manner in chiaroscuro with the most minute finish and delicacy. His pictures are generally of small size and mostly scenes of family life. Dow died in Leyden in 1675. DOW, NEAL, an American temper- ance reformer; born in Portland, Me., March 20, 1804. He was the author of the bill which prohibited the manufac- ture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State of Maine, widelv known as the "Maine Law." During the Civil War he was colonel of a Maine regiment and a Brigadier-General of volunteers. He died Oct. 2, 1897. DOWAGIAC, a city of Michigan, in Cass CO. It is on the Michigan Central railroad. It is the center of an impor- tant farming region, and its industries include flour and lumber mills, a can- ning factory, and a gas factory. It has a public library and manufactures of stoves, gloves, furnaces, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,088; (1920) 5,440. DOWDEN, EDWARD, an Irish poet and historian; born in Cork, May 3, 1843. He was Professor of English Literature in Trinity College, Dublin. He published a volume of "Poems' (1876); his other writing are biological and critical, e. g., "Shakespeare, his Mind and Art" (1872), a work of high arthority, which reached a fifth edition (1887) and has been translat/^d into