DORMOUSE 



election after the organization of the Dominion 

 he was elected to the House of Commons, and 

 in 1873 was appointed Minister of Justice in 

 the Mackenzie government, but he resigned in 

 the next year to become, chief justice of the 

 province of Quebec, an office which he held 

 until 1887. 



DORMOUSE, dawr'mous, a small, squirrel- 

 like rodent which passes most of its life sleep- 

 ing; that is, it remains much of the time in a 

 dormant state, hence the name. Various species 

 are common in temperate and warm parts of 



A DORMOUSE 

 About actual size. 



Great Britain, Europe, Asia and Africa, but 

 none is known in America, although the com- 

 mon white-footed mouse is sometimes called a 

 dormouse. 



The general characteristics of all species are 

 long, squirrel-like tails, two or four pairs of 

 cheek teeth, large heads with rather pointed 

 muzzles, large, prominent eyes and mouselike 

 ears. They are beautiful animals, with hair 

 fine and silky. Like squirrels, they sit up on 

 their hind legs, holding their food of acorns, 

 hazelnuts or grain between their forepaws; 

 but unlike the squirrels, they go about at night. 

 All winter they sleep curled into a little ball 

 in their neat nests in bushes, awakening only 

 occasionally on a warm, sunny day to eat from 

 their hoarded store of food. 



DORR'S REBELLION, a disturbed condition 

 in the state of Rhode Island from the autumn 



DOUAY 



Wilson Dorr in the interest of suffrage. After 

 the Revolutionary War Rhode Island was still 

 governed under, its charter of 1663, whereby the 

 right to vote was restricted to holders of $134 

 worth of real estate or land bringing an annual 

 rental of S7, and to their eldest sons. 



Dorr voiced the discontent of the people 

 and headed a party for the extension of suf- 

 frage to all males of legal age. They held a 

 convention and drafted a constitution; at the 

 same time, the state government, realizing the 

 revolutionary state of affairs, called a legal con- 

 vention which drafted an equally-liberal con- 

 stitution. Both were submitted to the people; 

 Dorr's reform document received the majority 

 of votes, but it was declared illegally adopted. 

 By election of the suffragists, Dorr was made 

 governor, and Samuel W. King was elected 

 governor at the regular elections. Dorr and 

 his followers stubbornly attempted to sustain 

 their government by force of arms, but through 

 the aid of United States troops the rebellion 

 was quelled. Dorr was convicted of treason 

 and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but 

 was afterwards pardoned. 



Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805-1854) was a 

 member of the Rhode Island legislature in 

 1833-1837. He was born at Providence, R. I., 

 and was educated at Harvard College. Had 

 it not been for Dorr's agitation, suffrage might 

 not have been extended in Rhode Island for 

 many years. 



DORTMUND, dawrt' moont, an important 

 mining city in the fertile German province of 

 Westphalia. It is situated near the River Ems, 

 seventy-three miles northeast of Cologne. Al- 

 though an ancient city, established before the 

 year 900, its growth has been very rapid only 

 during recent years, owing to railway develop- 

 ment and the opening up of mines and indus- 

 tries. The iron industry is of great importance, 

 and there are very large plants, some employ- 

 ing as many as 26,000 men. Locomotives, care 

 and all kinds of heavy machinery are manu- 

 factured, and there arc numerous breweries, 

 potteries and chemical works. Dortmund was 

 a nourishing member of the Hanseatic League 

 (which see), but steadily declined from the 

 fifteenth century until after the Franco-Ger- 

 man War (1870-1871). It then received an 

 impetus which caused it to develop almost as 

 rapidly as any of the western towns of the 

 United States and Canada. Population in 

 1910, 214,226. 



DOUAY, dooa', or DOUAI BIBLE, the 



of 1840 until May, 1842, caused by Thomas name commonly applied to the translation of 



