Koo
VI-KYUIN WELLINGTON, a Chinese diplomat, born in Shanghai, China, in 1888. He was educated in various schools and colleges in China and at Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1909. After occupying various official positions in China, he was appointed Minister to Mexico in 1915. This was followed by his appointment as Minister to the United States in the same year. He served on many commissions connected with Chinese affairs and received many decorations for his services. He wrote "The Status of Aliens in China" (1912) and edited "Studies in Chinese Treaties" (1914).
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Koodoo
a beautiful antelope, slategray, with transverse white markings. The males with spirally twisted horns, about four feet long; less; height about five feet at the shoulders. Extends from South Africa to everywhere at a comparatively short Abyssinia. OLOKAMBA, an anthropoid ape shot by Du Chaillu in the forests of Western Equatorial Africa. The shoulders the are broad, the ears large, the arms extend mated ad below the knee; the limbs adapt it to go 200,000. on all fours and to climb trees; the waist is as broad and thick as the chest. It feeds on vegetables. MOORIA ISLANDS, KOORIA a group of five islands on the S. E. coast of Arabia, belonging to Great Britain. considerable deposit of There was a guano on the largest island; but it was not of very good quality, and is now exhausted.
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Koons' Spirit Room
A log séance-room erected in Dover, Athens County, Ohio, by a farmer, Jonathan Koons, in 1852. Koons, an early convert to spiritualism, had been told that he and his eight children would develop mediumistic powers, and the spirit-room was intended to be used for manifestations produced by their mediumship. The room was furnished with the appliances incidental to the spiritualistic séance-table for rappings, tambourines, and other musical instruments; phosphorus, by means of which the spirits might show themselves. The phenomena witnessed by the sitters, including Charles Partridge, editor of the Spiritual Telegraph, were of a varied nature, but in the main identical with the other manifestations of the same period. The spirits who visited Koon's log building claimed to be a band-one hundred and sixty-five in number of men who had lived before the time of Adam, and from whom were descended the well-known spirit personalities, John and Katie King.
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Kootenay
a river in British Columbia, 300 miles long, noted for its curvature. It flows through a pleasant region named also Kootenay. an oriptures, revsistions to Mohammed, the
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Kopeck
ko'pek. See Russia
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Kordofan
or THE WHITE LAND, from Dar-Für on lately a province of the Egyptian Sudan; desert; ares estiseparated from Sennaar on the E. by miles; pop. about the White Nile, and from Dar-Fûr on is traversed by the W. by a strip of desert; area estifound almost mated at 41,500 square miles; pop. about ratively short ng; the females horn-The prince is traversed by is no rivers; but water is found almost depth. The chief produce of the soil is millet, the principal food of the inhabmill itants. Gum trees, mimosas, thorny L. Three fifthe plants abound, but there is no forest timettled; the rest ber. Gums, hides, ivory, ostrich feathrines belong ers, and gold are exported. Three-fifths but use of the population are settled; the rest batly pagans, nomadic. The aborigines belong of nomad and are mainly to the Nuba stock, but use a th negro tongue and are mostly pagans. he end of There is a large element of nomad and was con slave-hunting "Arabs," Moslems in faith. then by The capital is El-Obeid. In the end of 21 the 18th century Kordofan was conbut of quered by the ruler of Sennaar, then by the sultan of Dar-Fûr; in 1821 it was annexed by Mehemet Ali of Egypt, but was lost to the Egyptians by the Mahdi's revolt in 1883. When the Egyptian Sudan was officially organized in 1899, Kordofan became one of its provinces.
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Korolenko
VLADIMIR, a Russian author. He was born at Jitomir in 1853 and was educated at Jitomir, Rovno, the Technological Institute, Petrograd; Moscow Agricultural Academy. He was banished to Vologda, settled in Kronstadt, and returned to Petrograd in 1877. He was banished to Glasov, then to Berezovskava-pochinka; imprisoned in Viatka moved to Tomsk and to Perm in 1880. He then went to Yakutsk and settled in Nijni-Novgorod in 1885. He went to in 1896, and since 1900 has Petrograd rad been associated with the editing of the Bogatshbo." His journal "Russkoe works include: "Makar's Dream"; "In the Hunger-Year"; "The History of a Contemporary of Mine"; "The Blind Musician"; "Without Speech"; and three volumes of tales and sketches.
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Kosh
The wicked forest fiend of the Bangala of the Southern Congo. Lady of Lawers on. The witch also caused the death of one David Jones, Kostchtchie, or " Deathless A Russian goblin of the bogle-boe species. This horrid monster is described as having a death's head and fleshless skeleton, "through which is seen the black blood flowing and the yellow heart beating." He is armed with an iron club, with which he knocks down all who come in his path. In spite of his ugliness, he is said to be a great admirer of young girls and women. He is avaricious, hates old and young alike, and particularly those who are fortunate. His dwelling is said to be amongst the mountains of the Koskels and the Caucasus, where his treasure is concealed.
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Kosher
pure, according to the Jewish ordinances. Thus "Kosher meat" is meat killed and prepared by Jews af- Pomerania, Ger ter the Jewish manner, and so fit to be miles from the eaten by Jews. mber of
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Koslin
a town in Pomerania, Gerortant many, situated about 8 miles from the Pop. Baltic Sea. In addition to a number of churches and schools it has important soap, paper and silk factories. Pop. about 25,000. sloy is at the
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Koslov
a town in the province of Tambov, Russia, about 250 miles S. E. of Moscow. district is noted for its breed of horses, and as Koslov is at the junction of two railroad lines it does a considerable business in live-stock and grain. Pop. about 50,000.
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