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AUGUST FRIEDRICH man dramatist; born in Weimar, May 3, 1761. Weak in character-drawing, he had a strong sense for situations. Of about 200 tragedies, comedies, dramas, and farces, the best known now are:
States as "The Stranger"; "The Span- long popular in England and the United long popular ar in England and the United States as "The Stranger"; "The Spaniards in Peru" (1796), adapted by Sheridan as "Pizarro." "The Indians in England" (1790) won great applause. "German Provincials" was one of his best comedies. His most celebrated novel with the Iron Brow" (1790), published was "Sorrows of the Ortenberg Family" (1785). The famous "Doctor Bahrdt with the Iron Brow" (1790), published under another's name, contained an attack on Goethe, Schiller, etc., who declined to admit him to their society. He was long in Russian service; and was once banished to Siberia by the Emperor Paul, who, however, recalled him a year later through being moved by something in one of his plays, gave him a rich estate, and made him aulic councilor and director of the court theater at St. Petersburg. He was assassinated in Germany as a Russian spy, by a student, in ersburg. He was assassinated in Ger- Mannheim, March 23, 1819.
KOUMISS (kö'mis), a fermented beverage made from mare's milk in the steppes of Russia by the Kirghez, Tartars, Kalmuks, etc. The alcohol is derived from the milk sugar, which is present in mare's milk in larger quantity than in the milk of other animals. This fresh milk is diluted with water, and placed in a sack of goat skin or the skin from the entire hind quarter of a horse, the wider end serving for base and the leg portion for the neck. There is genthe wider end serving for base and the from the entire hind quarter of a horse, from a previous brewing, to induce ferfrom a previous brewing, to induce fer- erally added some yeast, the sediment leg portion for the neck. There is genmentation is complete, the product be- KRAKATOA ing known as "young koumiss," or saumal. Fresh milk is added daily, and as the product is concentrated by evaporation of water from the surface of the hide the old koumiss is much stronger than the new. milk is used in the American factories from the milk of any animal. Cow's an ethereal bouquet. It may be made Koumiss is an acid liquid an ethereal bouquet. It may be made from the milk of any animal. Cow's of koumiss. It is recommended by physicians in cases of extreme debility. Kovno, Lithuania, bordering on Poland and reaching nearly to the Baltic, on the Niemen, 58 miles N. W. of Vilna. It