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See Chisleu. Kisliar (kiz-lē-är'). A town in the Terek Territory, Caucasus, Ru ia, situated on the Terek about lat. 43° 55′ N., long. 46° 50′ E. Population (1889), 6,429. Ki (kis), August. Born at Paprotzan, near Ple , Pru ia, Oct. 11, 1802: died at Berlin, March 24, 1865. A German sculptor. Among his chief works is "Amazon and Panther" (in Berlin). Ki in gen (kis's ing-en). A town and watering place in Lower Franc on i a, Bavaria, situated on the Franc on i an Saale 29 miles north by east of Würzburg. It is noted for its iron and salt springs. Near the town, July 10, 1866, the Pru ians defeated the Bavarians; and it was also the scene of the unsucce ful attempt on the life of Bismarck in 1874. Resident popu lati on, about 3,500. Kistna (kist' nä), or Krishna (krishna). 1. A river of the Deccan, India, flowing into the Bay of Bengal about lat. 15° 50′ N. Length, about 800 miles. - 2. A district in the governorship of Madras, British India, lying along the lower course of the river Kistna. Area, 8,397 square miles. Population (1891), 1,855,582. Kis-Ujszállás (kish'öy'säl-läsh). A town in the county of Szolnok, Hungary, 46 miles west southwest of Debreczin. It is the seat of a district court and contains a gymnasium. Population (1890), 12,527. Kit chal eche American Indi (ko'chi), or (kē'chi). A tribe ans. Their habitat in 1712 was northeastern Texas and the adjacent parts of Louisiana. Now it is on the Wichita reservation, Oklahoma. See Caddoan . Kit-Cat Club, The. A London club which flourished, according to the generally accepted account, from 1703 to 1733. Its meetings were held at the "Cat and Fiddle," kept by Christopher Cat, a noted mutton-pieman, near Temple Bar. It was founded by members of the Whig party, and among its frequenters were Steele, Add is on, Lord Orford, and others. Its name is thought to be derived from the name of the landlord of the tavern, though the "Spectator," No. 9, says it was from the name of the pies, which were called "kit-cats." The club occasionally met in summer at the house of Jacob Tonson at Barn Elms, where a room was built for it, the walls of which were adorned with portraits of its members. As the ceiling was low, Sir Godfrey Kneller, who painted them, used a small canvas (36 by 28 inches), which has since gone by the name of kit-cat size. The political significance of the Club was such that Wal pole records that though the Club was generally mentioned as "a set of wits," they were in reality the patriots that saved Britain. Timbs , p. 52. Kitchen Cabinet, The. In United States polities, a group of politicians very influential with Andrew Jackson during his administration. Its chief members were Major Lewis and Amos Kendall. They were "men with whom he could smoke and converse at random, without the constraint of a council and clashing minds" ( Schouler , Hist. of U. S., III. 495). Kite (kit), Sergeant. The humorous and original subordinate of Captain Plume, in Farquhar's comedy "The Recruiting Officer." Kitely (kit'li). A usurer in Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour": a jealous husband of an original type. When Garrick revived the play, Kitely became one of his famous parts. Kitikshian. See Gyitksan . Kitkaet. See Gyitgaata . Kit's Coty House. A noted cromlech near Aylesford, Kent, England. Kittatinny (kit'a-tin-i), or Blue Mountains. A range of low mountains in southern New York, New Jersey, and northeastern Pennsylvania, belonging to the Appal a chi an system. It is broken by the Delaware Water Gap. Kittery (kit'e-ri). A seaport in York County, Maine, situated at the mouth of the Piscataqua, opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It contains a United States navy-yard. Population (1890), 2,864. Kittim (kit'im), or Chittim. In the Old Testament, a name generally a umed to designate the island of Cyprus, where the Phenic i ans founded the city of Citium; in a wider sense, Kittim the inhabitants of the islands and coast of the western Mediterranean. The isles of Chittim are mentioned in Isa. xxiii. as a resort of the Tyrian fleet. Kittistzu. See Gyidesdzo . Chinese: son of M. H. Klaproth. He was profe or of Asiatic languages at Paris 1816-35. He published "Asia polyglott a," a cla ification of the peoples of Asia in accordance with the affinities of their languages, with a language-atlas (1823), and numerous philological and geographical works and accounts of his travels. Klaproth, Martin He in rich. Born at Wernigerode, Pru Pru ia, Dec. 1, 1743: died at Berlin, Jan. 1, 1817. A German chemist, profe or at the University of Berlin. Kittlitz (kit'lits), Baron Fried rich von. Born at Breslau, Pru ia, Feb. 16, 1799: died at Mainz, Germany, April 10, 1874. A German soldier (captain), ornithologist, and traveler. He wrote "Denkwürdigkeiten einer Reise nach dem ru ischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka" A town in Bohemia, 68 miles southwest of (1858), etc.