Krasnovodsk – Kuka
Krasnovodsk
a Russian fortress on the E. shore of the Caspian Sea. It has been the starting point of many im- KREISLER prison settlement, it became in 1920 the center of a Siberian Government set up by the peasants to replace that of the Omsk Government. Pop. about 80,000.
IGNACY
Krehbiel
HENRY EDWARD, an American musical critic; born in Ann Arbor, Mich., March 10, 1854. He was musical critic successively on the Cincinnati "Gazette" and the New York "Tribune." His published works include: "The Technics of Violin Playing," "How to Listen to Music," etc.
Kreisler
FRITZ, an Austrian violinist; born in Vienna in 1875. He entered the Vienna Conservatory at the age of seven years, and at the age of ten won a gold medal for violin playportant scientific and military expedi- ing. He studied afterward at Paris, tions to central Asia.
Kremersite
an isometric mineral, occuring in octahedrons, as a sublimation product, in the fumaroles of Vesuvius.
Color , ruby-red; soluble in water. Composition (according to Kremers), a hydrated chloride of potassium, ammonium, and iron.
Kremnitz
one of the oldest towns of Hungary, in the county of Bars, in a deep, gloomy valley.
It is famous for its gold and silver mines , which, however, are less productive now than formerly, and its mint.
Krems
a town in Austria located at the junction of the Krems river with the Danube; about 40 miles N. W. of Vienna. The town has quite a few churches and schcols, and a museum.
Pop. about 15,000.
Krodo
the Saturn of the ancient and iron manufacturing town, capital of
Kronstadt
an important trading a Hungarian county in the extreme S. E. of Transylvania . Pop. about 40,000.
For the Russian STADT. For the Russian Kronstadt, see CRON- STADT.
Africa, much employed in doing rough
Kroo
or KRU, a native race of work on vessels trading on the Liberian coast. Their territory extends about 70 miles along the W. coast; they are a and very industrious.
NES PAULUS, a Boer statesman; born
Kufic Coins
the early Mohammedan coins engraved with inscriptions in the Kufic or epigraphic Arabic character, as distinguished from the Neskhi or writing; but the term is often applied erroneously to Arabic coins in general.
Kuh-Horn
a musical instrument made of wood or bark with a cupped mouthpiece , formerly employed by the mountaineers of Switzerland and other countries to convey signals or alarms in war time, but now only used by cowherds-hence the name.
Kuka
or KUKAWA, a town in about 20 miles W. from the S. W. shores western Africa, the capital of Bornu, of Lake Tchad. organization which, said to have been KU-