Kielland
or KJELLAND, ALEXANDER LANGE (chel'and), a Norwegian novelist and dramatist; born in Stavanger, in 1849. A strong representative of the realistic school, he was foe to all forms of ecclesiastical a tyranny. His writings have been supposed to show the influence of Balzac and Zola. Notable among his novels are: "Garman and Worse" (1880), his first; "Laboring People" (1881); "Skipper Worse" (1882) and "Else." Of his dramas the best are: "Betty's Formynder" (Betty's Guardian: 1887); "Professoren" (1888). He died April 6, 1906.
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Kieserite
a sulphate of magnesia obtained at Stassfurt and elsewhere, and employed as a source of epsom salt, and in the manufacture of manures. Mixed with quicklime and water it hardens into a mass which, after heating, pulverizing, and again mixing with water, becomes of a marblelike consistency, and may be made into ornamental articles, etc.
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Kikuyu
a district in the British East African Protectorate. Various Christian missionary bodies have worked in this region, which became famous in the Christian world by the protest made by one of the Bishops of the English Church against permitting non-members to take part in the communion service. A conference called by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1914 did not sustain the protest. 4), an acti san.ovaL ce, with a the botto ater's mou all and ro cean, belon V. from the of N. Uinh In Kildare mery here, aidh was church of whose sha (kil-e-mär n mass ween Victo The mass craters, by a broe d with lay about 19,6 mawensi capital of Near to allege of St were held century, 1. it was t any rat as here that ent "Statu went the Ar e Irish-f -and here of Co Cromwell nd in 1650 orms. The any and Iri which wer impoverish small mar Kerry, Ire ver Killary ads on the to visit th es of the elding Beve ite, and b OKES OF ets of wet tuated in nountains abruptig Ly clothed ammit. Be lower and the middle lakes is the fine dle lakes is the fine
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Kilauea
an active volcrater ruin of Muckross Abbey. bbey. cano in Hawaii. It has an oval , ILLDEER, a small
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Kilda
ST., a small and rocky is- There is a black ring round the neck. ng round the neck.. land in the Atlantic Ocean, belonging to W.
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Kildare
a town in Kildare county, . white below, with a white patch saddle white patch above Ireland, 30 miles S. W. of Dublin and the the eye, and sometimes a grayish and mes a grayish saddle Bridget founded a nunnery here, changed mark on the back. Its fierceness Its flerceness and older name Druim Criaidh was voracity constitute it the terror of the packs, and it the terror of the to Cil-dara, the cell or church of the oak, shadow the in small packs, and They hunt in small from an old tree under whose ocean. undant near some of are particularly abundant near some of saint built her cell. grounds. the Pacific sealing grounds. (kil-ē-män-jä'ro),
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Kilimanjaro
kil-e-man-ja-ro', the highest known mountain of Africa. It is situated on the north and south wrinkle or crease in the African continent. It is an extinct volcano, having two enormous craters connected by a bridge of lava. Geographically, the mountain is in German East Africa , about 200 miles from the Indian Ocean . It was ascended in 1889 by an explorer named Meyer. Height, 19,680 feet. Though with 4 deg. of the equator its summit is wrapped in eternal snow.
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Killdee
or KILLDEER, a small is 9 miles in circumference, with a lake of American bird akin to the plover. It to the plover. It is red and boiling lava at the bottom, over color above, each a light brown color above, each brownish-red 1,000 feet below the crater's mouth. of tipped with . with brownish-red. feather
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Killer Whale
one of the Scotland, 40 miles N. W. from the N. Delphinidæ (dolphins). It is from 18 Ins). It la from 18 extremity of the island of N. Uist. to 30 feet long, glossy black above, and above sy black above, and
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Killiecrankie
a pass through . IE, a pass through KILIMA-NJARO in East isolated mountain mass the Grampian Mountains in Scotland untains in Scotland. an Africa, standing between Victoria Nyty, the Revolutionary At the N. extremity, the Revolutionary anza and the coast. The mass consists ral Mackay, y, was utarmy, under General Mackay, was ut- Royalists, of two peaks, or rather craters, Kibo and saddle terly defeated, in 1689, by the , who fell 689, by the Royalists, Kimawenzi, connected by a broad lava hills. under Grahame of Claverhouse Claverhouse, who fell (14,000 feet) studded with in the moment of victory. ictory. Its highest point is about 19,680 feet
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Kilmer
JOYCE, an American poet E, an American poet above sea-level. Kimawenzi is more in New Brunswick, and author, born in New Brunswick, than 17,250 feet high. N. J., in 1886. He was engaged in news- York was engaged in news-
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Kilogramme
or KILOGRAM, a 1,000 or KILOGRAM,
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Kilolitre
or a French measure of capacity for fluids, 1,000 liters.
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Kilometer
or KILOMETRE, a 1,000 meters. It is 1093.63 yards, about five-eighths of a mile.
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Kilowatt
an old French solid measure containing 1,000 cubic meters = 35316.6 English cubic feet.
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Kilpatrick
HUGH JUDSON, an American military officer; born in Deckerton, N. J., Jan. 14, 1836. He was graduated at West Point in 1861. He served as captain at the battle of Big Bethel. In 1862 he took part in various operations of the army of the Potomac. He was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1863, after which he was employed in a raid to Richmond for the release of Federal prisoners. He commanded the cavalry of Sherman's army on its march from Atlanta to Savannah. He was minister to Chile from 1865 to 1870, was reappointed in 1881. He died in Valparaiso, Dec. 4, 1881.
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Kinburn
or KILBURN, a former fort of south Russia, opposite Otchakoff. It figured prominently in the Russo- Turkish Wars of 1771-1774 and 1787; and during the Crimean War it fell before the Allies, Oct. 17, 1855. The fortifications were razed in 1860.
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