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* DAKOTA KIVER. 740 DALE. River nine miles east of Yankton, S. D. It is about 400 miles long in its general direction. It falls nearly 600 feet, but the fall is so uniform that the stream is incapable of much develop- ment as to water-power. Only small tributaries flow into it. DAKOTA INDIANS. See Sioux. DAKOTA STAGE. A subdivision of the Cretaceous system in America, the rocks of which were first described as occurring in Dakota. It comprises conglomerates, sandstones, and clays, with layers of lignite, and is found along the western edge of the great plains from Texas to Canada. In the Black Hills the series of rocks is from 250 feet to 400 feet thick. The coal deposits of Bear Creek, Wyo., are probably of this age. See Cretaceous System. DAKSHA, dak'sha. A deity in Hindu my- thology', represented .ts having a goat's head, and regarded as a son of Brahma (q.v.). His name means the dexterous or elever god, and in the oldest of the Vedas he is accounted especially as a progenitor of the race of the gods. _ His daughter I'ma, according to later mythology, was married to Siva (q.v.). Owing to an affront received in connection with a great sacrificial feast, Siva slew Daksha and cut off his head. The scene is portrayed in Hindu sculpture. Siva later restored his father-in-law to life, and re- placed his head, which had accidentally been destroyed, by the head of a goat, which the god still wears. DALAGUETE, dii'la-ga'ta. A town of Cebu, Philippines. 49 miles from Cebu. It is situated on the coast, near the mouth of the river of the same name. Dalaguete was founded in 1711. Population, in 1898, 21,323. DALAI-LAMA, dii-lii'f lii'mii. See Lamaism. DAL'ARA'DIA. The ancient name applied to a district in Ireland, including the southern half of the present county of Antrim and the eastern part of the county of Down. The name is not to be confounded with Dalriada (q. v.), as Dalaradia. or 'Dal Araidh.' takes its name from 'Fiacha Ariad." a king of Ulster of the Irian race, while Dalriada belonged to the race of Heremon. A Pictish colony from Scotland settled in Dalaradia a century before the begin- ning of the Christian Era. DALAYRAC, da'la'rak', Nicolas ( 1753-1809) . A French dramatic composer, born at biuret. His parents intended him to become a lawyer, and bitterly oppo.sed his studying music: but in 1774 he was sent to Paris to enter the Guards of the Count d'Artois. and in that city he was able to pursue his musical studies. He was a pupil of Langle. and after writing a number of violin quartets, in 1781 produced his first opera, Le petit soupcr. Its success encouraged him, and he immediately began to write other works, producing in all about fifty operas. In 1798 he was made a member of the Stockholm Academy, and a little later a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. His best operas were Xina (1786), Ax^mia (1787). Camille (1791), and Romeo et Juliette (1793)., all of which show a vivid dramatic instinct and a charm of melody which made them immediately popular through- out France. He died in Paris, and his bust is now in the foyer of the Opera Comique. DALBERG, d-il'berK. The name of an an- cient German family, the members of which pos- sessed under the Holy Roman Empire the dignity of "First Knight of the Empire.' The most dis- tinguished member of the family was Karl Theo- DOB, Baron von Dalberg (1744-1817), Arch- bishop of Mainz, and famous as a patron of arts and letters. He assisted in the negotiations be- tween Xapoleon and Pius VII. at Paris in 1804, and was nmch esteemed both personally and as a scholar and ecclesiastical prince by such men as Wieland. Schiller, and Goethe. He was made Prince Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806). and Grand Duke of Frankfort (1810), but was constrained by public opinion to retire into private life on the fall of Xapoleon (1814). His writings are no longer of value. For his Life, consult: Krilmer (Leipzig, 1821); and Beaulieu-Marconnav. Karl von Dalberi und seine Zcit (Weimar. 1879). DALBERGIA, dal-ber'ji-a (Neo-Lat., named in honor of tlie Swedish botanist Balhenj) . A genus of trees and climbing shrubs of the natural order Leguminosfe, having a stalked membranous pod, which is flat, tapers to both ends, and con- tains one to three flat seeds. The leaves are pin- nate, with a terminal leaflet. All the species are natives of warm climates. Some of them are valuable timber-trees, particularly the sissoo of Bengal {Dalberpia sissoo), much prized, and more extensively used in the north of India than any other timber-tree except the sal (q. v.) . The sissoo extends through India to Afghanistan, growing at elevations up to 5000 feet. The trees become 60 feet high ; the wood is elastic, seasons well, does not warp, and has a greater trans- verse strength than teak or sal. Dalbertjia lati- folia furnishes the East Indian rosewood, or Malabar blackwood. which attains a diameter of six feet. The wood is hea'y, dark, and very strong, and is extensively used in cabinet-work, for ship-knees, gun-carriages, and agricultural implements. Dalbergia nigra and Dnlbergia ■miscolobiinn of Brazil furnish valuable woods for export. Dalberr/ia monelnria. or Ecastopliyl- ?i(w ntonetaria, a related tree, a native of Suri- nam, yields a resin very similar to dragon's blood. D ' A L B E E T, dal'bfir', Eugex Fkancis Charles. See Albert. DALE, David (1739-1806). A Scottish manu- facturer, born at Stewarton. Ayrshire. He se- cured the use of Arkwright's spinning patent, founded the New Lanark mills, and subsequently other important establishments, and became widely known for his many benevolences. Robert Owen married his daughter and succeeded him in the Lanark mills. Dale was the founder and chief pastor of a Scotch Church of Congrega- tional principles, the members of which were called 'Dalites,' or 'Old Independents.' DALE, .Lmes Wilkixson- (1812-81). An American Presbyterian divine. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at An- dover and Princeton theological seminaries, and was pastor from 1845 to 1876. with his last charge at Wayne. Pa. He died at Media, Pa. He wrote the elaborate works on baptism: Clas- sic (1867). Jndaic (1869). Johannic (1871), ani Christie attd Patristic Baptism (1784). For his biograpliT. consult James Roberts (Phila- delphia, 1880).