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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



prevention of cotton -worm ravages, efforts of the last ten 

 years, 201 ; annual loss to the country from this pest bo- 

 tween 1865-'79, 201 ; natural history of the cotton-worm, 

 appears early, size of eggs, rapid growth, exceedingly 

 prolific, 201; method of destroying recommended, 201; 

 how the poiaon is applied, sprinklers and sifters, slit and 

 lip nozzles, rotary nozzles, cyclone nozzles, 201; four 

 kinds of machines for spreading poison, viz., brush- 

 throwers, rotary fan-blowers, bellows-blowers, squirting- 

 machines, 201; force-pump tried, automatic sprinkler, 

 201, 202 ; flexible fork, success of, 202 ; pyrethrum, vege- 

 table poison against cotton-worm, to be introduced into 

 the United States, 202 ; cotton -manufacture expected to in- 

 crease in the Southern States, 202 ; grounds of this expec- 

 tation in saving cost of packing and transport, etc., 202 ; 

 estimate of cost in sending to the North, $14.90 per bale, 

 202; about $100,000,000 spent in baling, transportation, 

 etc., in 1879, 202 ; water-power in the South costs about 

 half what steam-power does in the North, state of atmos- 

 phere, too, more favorable in the South, 202. 

 Cyprus, Island of. Size compared with other Mediterranean 

 islands, 202; length and surface in square miles, 202; 

 population at the beginning of the Christian era, 202; 

 present population, 202 ; the principal cities, 202. 



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Dakota. Area and population of the Territory, 202 ; lies 

 north of Nebraska and west of Minnesota and Iowa, 202 ; 

 divided into ninety-five counties, Tankton the capital, 

 202 ; agriculture in some counties much improved, 202, 

 208; Cass County and Bed Eiver,202, 203; statement as 

 to population and land under culture in Traill, Barnes, 

 Stutsman, Kidder, and Burleigh Counties, 208; the Che- 

 yenne and James Rivers, 208 ; Bismarck (Kidder Coun- 

 ty), terminus of Northern Pacific Railroad, 203; fine 

 region of country, 203 ; the " Great American Desert," 

 208 ; the Heart River and vicinity, 208, 204 ; region from 

 the Little Missouri to the Yellowstone Kiver, 204 ; Dal- 

 rymple's large farm (75,000 acres), 204 ; process of culti- 

 vation and yield of wheat, 204 ; prices of staple articles, 

 horses, oxen, etc., 204. 



DAVIEB, HENBY E. American jurist and judge, 204 ; born in 

 Connecticut, studied law, admitted to the bar in Utica, 

 New York, removed to New York city, 204; served as 

 alderman, was elected to Supreme Court and Court of 

 Appeals, 205 ; energy, integrity, industry, 205. 



Deichman Protocol. Proposed treaty with Colombia to 

 give military control of Panama Canal to United States, 

 717, 718. 



Delaware. Session of the Legislature, 205; State debt refund- 

 ed, 205 ; action in regard to national banks refusing to pay 

 State taxes, 205; proposition to pay government officers by 

 salaries in place of fees, 205 ; act in relation to free schools, 

 205; State Board of Education, 205; attention called by 

 the Governor to alleged bribery, etc., at recent elections, 

 205,206; act passed "to secure free elections," provis- 

 ions of, 206 ; list of principal acts and joint resolutions 

 of the Legislature, 206; joint resolution of sympathy 

 with Ireland, 206; Bayard re-elected United States Sena- 

 tor, 206; report of State Commissioner on Insurance, 

 206, 207 ; tabular statement of the condition of schools, 

 207; schools for colored children, 207; action as to the 

 Yorktown celebration, 207 ; growth of the State in popu- 

 lation since 1812, 207 ; loses one representative in Con- 

 gress by recent apportionment act, 207. 



Denmark. The royal family, 207; the ministry, 208; area 

 and population, 208 ; revenue, expenditures, national 

 debt, 208; army and navy, 208; statistics as to com- 

 merce, 208, 209 ; railroads, newspapers, telegraphs, etc., 



209 ; contest in the Legislature, the ministry and Second 

 Chamber on the one side and the Popular Chamber on 

 the other, 209 ; Parliament dissolved a number of times 

 by the ministry and the King, 209, 210; people resolute 

 in re-electing radical members, 210 ; Lower House refuse 

 to vote appropriations demanded, 210 ; struggle not yet 

 ended, 210 ; political condition of Denmark peculiar, rise 

 of popular power, 210, 211 ; largely an agricultural people, 

 211 ; conflict of classes, 211 ; land system and its changes, 

 211 ; three fourths of the land held by 70,000 yeomen, 

 211 ; peasant proprietors, 211 ; landlord class, 211 ; laws 

 and regulations in regard to land tenure, 211 ; iron-duds, 

 etc., 212 ; banishment of Schleswig-Holstein-Augusten- 

 burg family revoked, 212; public officers, 212. 



Icelandic Legislature meets, 212 ; progress of the coun- 

 try in liberty and independence, 212. 



DEVILLE, ETIENNE HENBI SAINTE-CLAIBE. French chemist, 

 212; born in St. Thomas, West Indies, went to France 

 early in life, 212 ; Professor of Chemistry in Paris, 212 ; 

 studies and services ia this department, 212. 



Diplomatic Correspondence. (See NATURALIZATION PA- 

 PERS, PANAMA CANAL, and PERU, CHILI, and UNITED 

 STATES.) 



Disability of the President. (See INABILITY OB DISABIL- 

 ITY OF THE PRESIDENT.) 



Disciples of Christ. Annual meeting of the General Chris- 

 tian Missionary Convention, 212, 213; receipts from vari- 

 ous sources, work accomplished, co-operation of State 

 societies, etc., 213 ; Foreign Christian Missionary Socie- 

 ty's receipts and expenditures, 213 ; report in favor of 

 extending the work, 213 ; the Christian "Woman's Board 

 of Missions, its work, 213 ; meeting of Churches in Eng- 

 land, 218. 



DISRAELI, BENJAMIN. Earl of Beaconsfield and twice Prime 

 Minister of England, 213 ; position and character as a poli- 

 tician, 213 ; a Conservative by nature, but fer-seeing as 

 to progress, 214; leading spirit in uplifting British aris- 

 tocracy, 214 ; in foreign politics lost and won great bat- 

 tles, 214 ; reasserted at Berlin England's authority in the 

 councils of Europe, 214 ; sudden fall from power, 214 ; 

 bold course toward Russia, 214 ; acquisition of Cyprus, 

 214; raised to the peerage, 214; result of elections in 

 1880, 214; disappointment of his last years, 215. 



Dominion of Canada. Session of Parliament, 215 ; Pacific 

 Railway contract, 215; proposition of Canadian capital- 

 ists, 215; struggle in Parliament over this subject, 215; 

 terms subsequently agreed upon, 215 ; Canadian Pacific 

 Railway Company organized, 215; about 600 miles of 

 road completed, whole length from Halifax to Buzzard In- 

 let about 4,500 miles, 216 ; branch lines, 216; regulations 

 as to sale of lands, 216 ; plan for placing impoverished 

 Irish tenant farmers on unoccupied lands of the Domin- 

 ion, 216 ; bill for extending boundaries of Manitoba, 216 ; 

 revenues and expenditures, 216, 217; imports and ex- 

 ports, 217 ; effects of the protective tariff arrangements, 

 217 ; falling off of imports from the United States, in- 

 crease from Great Britain, 217, 218; results as to ex- 

 ports, tabular statements, 218; grain-crops good, 218; 

 lobster-canning, 218, 219 ; exports of coal, 219 ; statistics 

 of crime, 219; prohibition movement and results, 219; 

 militia force, 219; post-office savings-banks, 219; emi- 

 gration into the United States, immigration from the 

 United States into Canada, 219, 220; representation of 

 provinces in the Dominion Parliament, 220; population 

 of provinces and chief cities, 220; steamboat disaster on 

 the Thames River, 220, 221 ; fire in Quebec, 221 ; princi- 

 pal acts of the Ontario Parliament, 221 ; judicature act, 

 221 ; expenditures, revenues, and debt of Ontario, 221 ; 

 debt of Quebec, 221 ; session of Manitoba Legislature, 

 222; agricultural capabilities of British Columbia, min- 



