DESMODIUM 334 DE SOTO era have the power of fixing themselves In the last year it was made the State to external objects, and possess a feeble capital. Pop. (1910) 86,368; (1920) power of locomotion. Reproduction is 126,468. effected by (1) cell-division, where each ^ES MOINES COLLEGE, a coeduca- pustule divides into two; (2) by zoo- ti^n^l institution in Des Moines, la.; spores; (3) by conjugation. There are founded in 1855; under the auspices of five tribes, containing 22 genera. the Baptist Church; reported at the end DESMODITJM, a genus of papilio- of 1919: Professors and instructors, 22; naceous plants, sub-tribe Hedysareae. students, 550; president, J. A. Earl, D. D. The leaves have generally three leaflets; dES MOINES RIVER, the largest more rarely they are simple. The flow- river in Iowa ; formed by the E. and W. ers are in racemes or panicles; the leg- forks in southwest Minnesota; flows S. umes jointed, each joint one-seeded, s. E. to the capital city, then S. E. to About 100 species are known, chiefly a point about 4 miles below Keokuk, from South America or from India. D. where it empties into the Mississippi gyrans, an Indian species, is the mov- river; estimated length, 500 miles. It ing-plant, so called from the rotatory drains 10,000 square miles in Iowa; movement of the leaflets. It is some- flows through a region rich in agricul- times cultivated in greenhouses. D. dif- tural and grazing grounds, bituminous fusum is a fodder-plant. coal, and timber; receives the waters of DES MOINES, a city, capital of the Raccoon, North, Middle, South, and State of Iowa, and county-seat of Polk ^oone rivers; and with a fall of 8 feet CO.; at the junction of the Des Moines supplies a large number of valuable mill and Raccoon rivers, and on the Rock ^"^^ along its banks. Island, the Northwestern, the Burling- DESMOLOGY (a ligament), that ton Route, the Chicago, Milwaukee and branch of anatomy which treats of the St. Paul, and several other railroads, ligaments and sinews. It is built on a plateau from 15 to 20 dESMOULINS, BENOIT CAMILLE feet above the tidewater and is inter- (da-molan), a French revolutionist; sected by both rivers, which are spanned ^om in Guise, Picardy, March 2, 1760. by eight bridges. The business portion jj^ ^^g ^^^ng the most notable of the lies near the rivers, and the residences pamphleteers and orators who urged the are on the higher grounds beyond. multitude forward in the path of revo- _ Pxihhc Parks and Bmld'ings.— The lution. He, along with others, prepared city has an extensive park system, the plan for the taking of the Bastille Among the notable buildings are the (July, 1789), was one of the founders of Capitol, erected at a cost of $3,000,090; the club of Cordeliers, and the promoter the United States Building, containing of the assembly in the Champ de Mars, the Postoffice and Federal Courts; the in 1793 he gave his vote for the death State Library; the State Historical of the king. Having become closely con- Buildmg, and Auditorium; Hospitals; sected with Danton and the party of C?urt House; the Grand Opera House; opposition to Robespierre, and inveigh- City Hall; State Arsenal; and about 75 ing against the reign of blood and churches. terror, he was arrested on the order of Business hiterests.— The city is lo- the latter on March 30, 1794, tried on cated in the center of a rich coal min- April 2, and executed on the 5th. ing district. The principal industries, TN-n^-nTA • • -n • ^.' i. • besides coal-mining, include pork-pack- . ^.^SNA, a river m Russia, which rises ing and the manufacture of starch, '^ ^^^.^ZT'f!^-^ ^r^f^^'ir^^Zl^^n^^^ o-ioao -ni-na Ur-i^^j- ^-yyA +,-i« 4f^, „j_ J ^- of the town 01 bmolensk, flows Sine "^h'op products engfnLboile?s ^^^^^^^ '^' governments of Orel and Snvp «LrP?JSft« f,?;Jf£r!U^^^^^^^^^ Tchemigov till it joins the Dnieper near ?ood/ tS' iqTq tw T.^^^^^^^^ Kiev. It is 500 miles in length and baSks. National navigable nearly throughout. Education. — The school system is DE SOTO, a city of Missouri, in Jeffer- maintained at a high standard. The son co. It is on the St. Louis, Iron annual expenditure for education is over Mountain, and Southern railroad. In the $1,000,000. For higher instruction there neighborhood are iirfportant lead and were 5 public high schools, a private zi"c mines. The city has a large trade one, Des Moines College, Drake Uni- i" grain, flour, produce, and live stock, versity, Highland Park College and Its industries include a shoe factory, Grand View College. flour mills, and railroad machine shops. History.— Des Moines was first sur- Pop. (1910) 4,721; (1920) 5,003. veyed in 1846; incorporated as a town DE SOTO, FERNANDO, a Spanish jn 1853 ; and chartered as a city in 1857. discoverer ; born at Jeres de los Caval-
