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DENVER XTNIVERSITY 326 IJE PERE an important jobbing center for the sur- rounding country. It is the center of a retail trade for territory extending 600 miles in every direction. Denver is the financial center of the Rocky Mountain region. It has a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of the 10th District. The clearings of the banks of the city in 1919 amounted to $1,574,992,155. There are 5 National banks. Within the city are 35 park:^ with a total area of 1,321 acres. This includes the city park with an area of 480 acres. There are over 230 miles of surface streets and 57 miles of paved streets. All down-town streets have ornamental lighting systems. Among the notable public buildings are the postofiice, costing, with its site, $2,- 500,000; the State capitol costing $2,800,- 000; the Municipal Auditorium, costing $750,000, and having a seating capacity of 12,000; the Colorado Museum of Natu- ral History; St. John's Cathedral; and many handsome business buildings. There is a civic center, 13 acres in extent, which cost $1,500,000 for the land alone. This contains a Greek open air theatre. There is an excellent school system, with a total enrolment of over 40,000 pupils, with a teaching staff of approximately 1,300. There are 60 grade schools, 5 high schools, 1 evening school, 1 opportunity school, and 5 junior high schools. Within the city limits are the University of Den- ver, the Wolcott School for Girls, the Loretta Heights Academy, the Colorado Women's College, and the Sacred Heart College for Boys. There is a public li- brary erected at a cost of $300,000, with 6 branch libraries. Denver was founded in 1858 and in the following year was incorporated as a city and was named in honor of General J. W. Denver, then Governor of Kansas. It was re-incorporated in 1861 and in 1867 be- came the capital of the territory. It was first connected by rail with the East and South in 1870, on completion of the Den- ver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads. Pop. (1900) 133,859; (1910) 213,381; (1920) 256,491. DENVER, UNIVERSITY OF, a co- educational institution in Denver, Colo.; founded in 1864 under the auspices of the IMethodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1900: Professors and in- structors, 131; students, 1,450; chan- cellor, H. A. Bucktel, D. D. DENYS. See Denis. DEODAND, a personal chattel, which had been the immediate cause of the death of any person, as if a horse struck his keeper and so killed him, or if a tree fell and killed a passer-by. In these and such cases that which caused ■'■^" --^"ath was to be given to God — that is, fo-fe'ted to the crown — to be sold or otherwise dis- posed of, and the proceeds applied to re- ligious uses or charity. No deodand was due where an infant under the age of dis- cretion was killed by a fall from a cart, or horse, or the like. The right to deo- dands within certain limits was fre- quently granted by the crown to individ- uals. Deodands were abolished in 1846. DEODAR (Cedru3 deodara), a large tree, attaining to the height of 100 feet, a native of the Himalayas, and similar in habit of growth to the Cedar of Lebanon, of which it is thoug-ht by some to be only a variety. Its timber is much val- ued and used in India. The name deodar is also locally applied to other trees, espe- cially Coniferse, in India, as at Simla, to the Cupressus torulosa. The C deodara yields by exudation, and partly by heat, a kind of turpentine, resin, and pitch. DEODORIZER, one who or that which deodorizes; specifically, any substance which has the power or quality of de- stroying any fetid, infectious, or noxious effluvia, such as chloride of lime, carbolic acid, etc. A drug or pastille applied to, or burned in the presence of, putrescent, purulent, infectious, or fetid matter. DEONTOLOGY, the science of duty; a term used by certain philosophic schools (Bentham, Spencer, and others) to denote their doctrine of ethics. DEPARTMENT, a term used to denote a territorial division in France. Previous to the Revolution, France was divided into provinces; but in 1790 a decree of the Assembly ordered the abolition of the old provincial divisions (34 in number), and the redistribution of the land into 83 departments. During the year 8 of the Revolution, these were increased to 98; in 1814 the empire consisted of 130; and the war of 1870-1871 reduced it from 89 to 87, including the sadly diminished de- partment of Haut-Rhin. The depart- ments, each presided over by a prefect, are again subdivided into arrondisse- r/vnts. DE PAUW UNIVERSITY, a coedu- cational institution in Greencastle, Ind.; founded in 1837, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; re- ported at the end of 1899 : Professors and instructors, 53; students, 853; volumes in the library, 48,000; productive funds, $2,115,794; income, $161,379; president, George Richmond Grose, D.D., LL.D. DE PERE, a city of Wisconsin, in Brown co. It is on the Fox river, and on the Chicago aad Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- roads, and is a port of call of lake steam- ers. Its industries include the manufac-