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LEFT KOCK, DE 363 KOLA NUT in Passy, France, May 21, 1794. He wrote a great number of novels that showed humor and observation describing Parisian lower class life of his time, and were emphatically realistic. Among the most popular were: "Georgette" (1820) ; "Gustave" (1821); "Monsieur Dupont" (1824); "Wife, Husband, and Lover" (1829) ; "The Man with Three Pairs of Trousers" (1840) ; "A Woman with Three Faces" (1859) ; "The Millionaire" (1867). He wrote also popular songs. He died in Paris, Aug. 29, 1871, KOCK, PAUL HENRI DE, a French novelist and playwright, son of Charles Paul; born in Paris, France, April 25, 1819. He followed closely in his father's footsteps, producing numerous novels and plays, which however, never enjoyed the same popularity. Titles of some of his novels are: "The King of the Stu- dents and the Queen of the Grisettes" (1844); "Kisses Accursed" (1860); "Absinthe Drinkers" (1863) ; "The New Manon" (1864) ; "Mademoiselle Cro- Suemitaine" (1871). He died in Limeil, ipril 14, 1892. KOENIG, PAUL, captain of the mer- chant submarine "Deutschland" which crossed the Atlantic from Germany and arrived at Baltimore on July 10, 1916, with a cargo of dyestuffs. While in the United States he was interviewed by newspapermen, was even the recipient of vaudeville offers, was welcomed by mayor of Baltimore and officials. On August 2 he sailed on the return voyage, later making a second voyage and put- ting in at New London, Conn. KOFU, a town in the province of Kai, Japan, located about 80 miles from To- kyo. The toviTi has progressed rapidly in recent years having many buildings of the European style. The industries are silk-weaving, the polishing of rock-crys- tals found in the quarries nearby, and the making of wine. Population, about 50,000. KOHATH, the son of Levi and father of the Kohathites, who was appointed to carry the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle during the journeyings of the Israelites in the desert. (Ex. vi: 16- 24; Num. iv: 4-15). KOH-I-NtTR. See Diamond. KOHLRABI, the turnip-stemmed cab- bage, a variety of cabbage having a turnip-like protuberance on the stem just above the ground, which is the most ed- ible part of the plant. KOKOMO, city and county-seat of Howard co., Ind.; on the Wildcat river and at the intersection of several impor- tant railroad .systems; 54 miles N. of Indianapolis. It is the farming trade center for a region within a radius of nearly 20 miles; is the principal city in the natural gas area of Indiana; and is principally engaged in agriculture, stock- raising, lumbering and manufacturing. It has a driven well water system, elec- tric lights and street railroads, National and savings banks, the County Asylum and Orphans' Home, a public park of about 40 acres, public library, and high schools. Pop. (1910) 17,010; (1920) 30,067. KOKO-NOR, or KUKU-NOR, a lake of Tibet, near the frontier of the Chinese province of Kan-su, fills a depression surrounded by mountains, and lies, ac- cording to Prjevalsky, 12,097 feet above the level of the sea. Its very salt waters, exquisitely blue in color, cover 66 miles by 40. It contains five islands, one with a Buddhist monastery. KOKOONA, a genus of Celastraceas. K. zeylanica is a tree with a pale-colored bark, found in the West Indies and in Ceylon. An oil is expressed from its seeds, which is used for burning in lamps, etc. KOKRA WOOD, or COCUS WOOD, the wood of an Indian tree, Lepidostachys Roxhurghii, which belongs to a very small natural order, Scepaceae. It is imported into Great Britain in logs of six or eight inches in diameter, having the heart- wood of a rich deep brown color and very hard; and is much used in the manufac- ture of flutes and other musical instru- ments. KOLA, a place of 649 inhabitants, but worthy of notice as the extreme N. town of European Russia. It is situated on the peninsula of Kola, is the capital of Russian Lapland, and has a capacious harbor. KOLA NUT, the product of a tree whose habitat is a West African region stretching 500 miles from the coast into the interior, between Sierra Leone and Lower (Guinea. The tree is from 20 to 30 feet high, has smooth cylindrical branches, and bears a profusion of pur- plish flowers. The flower yields a large brownish-yellow fruit, which enfolds in the same follicle the red and white seeds that are inaptly called kola nuts. The tree begins to bear in its fourth or fifth year, but attains its greatest fecundity only in its tenth. Kola contains nearly all the constituents of coffee, tea, and cocoa, and other constituents not pos- sessed by them. It has a larger propor-