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 KOOR KOPP On Feb. 4, 1874, it was captured by the British under Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley, and on the morning of the 6th the town was destroyed by fire, and the palace blown up ; but it was soon after reoccupied by the natives, who immediate- ly began to rebuild it. Within a few months The King's Palace in Koomassie. after its capture several volumes were pub- lished in London descriptive of the campaign, chiefly by newspaper correspondents: "The March to Coomassie," by G. A. Henty of the London "Standard;" "Coomassie and Mag- dala," by Henry M. Stanley of the " New York Herald," &c. (See GOLD COAST.) KOOR. See KUE. KOORDISTAN. See KURDISTAN. KOORILE ISLANDS. See KUKILE ISLANDS. KOOSSO, Kosso, or Cnsso, the Abyssinian name of the flowers and tops of Bray era anihelmin- tica, a small tree of the order rosacecs, growing on the high table land of Abyssinia. These are brought to Europe in a dry, compressed, green- ish yellow mass. This drug has been long used by the natives of the country whence it comes as a remedy for tapeworm, and it has been in- troduced into European practice. It appears to act principally as a poison to the parasite, though it sometimes produces nausea or even vomiting and diarrhoea. It is given in the form of powder mixed with warm water in the dose of half an ounce for an adult. The active principle has not been determined with cer- tainty, though the drug contains among other substances a resin, a volatile oil, a crystalliza- ble acid, and extractive matter. KOOTEMIS, a tribe of Indians in the north- west of the United States, with some bands in British Columbia. They form a distinct family, as shown by their language, from the Flatheads, with whom they have long been allied. They comprise the Kootenays and the Flatbows, and are known through the country as the Skalzi. They are gentle, amiable, honest, but cowardly, indolent, and indisposed to labor or to adopt civilized ideas. They live on fish, camash and other roots, grain, fruit, and berries, and are very poor. They roamed chiefly on the head waters of the Clark and McGilvray rivers, seldom hunted buffalo, but took elk, deer, Rocky mountain sheep, birds, and fish. They welcomed Father De Smet, and built a large chapel on the Tobacco Plain, but from their thriftless life have made little progress, except a few under Eneas, who reside somewhat per- manently on Flathead lake. In 1872 there were 320 Kootenays in Montana, with the Flat- heads and Pend d'Oreil- les, sharing their vicis- situdes and removal to Jocko; 400 in Idaho, 400 in British Colum- bia, and some in Wash- ington territory. Those in Idaho, by executive order of June 14, 1867, were removed to a res- ervation of 250,000 acres set apart for them. KOPISCH, August, a German poet and painter, born in Breslau, May 26, 1799, died in Berlin, Feb. 3, 1853. While in Italy, in his early life, he was one of the discoverers of the blue grotto in the island of Capri. Among his most popu- lar poems are the " Song of Noah " and other witty and humorous pieces. He also translated Dante. His Gesammelte Werke, edited by K. Botticher, appeared in Berlin in 1856, in 5 vols. ROPITAR, Bartholomans, a Slavic philologist, born at Repnje, Carniola, Aug. 23, 1780, died in Vienna, Aug. 11, 1844. He studied at Laybach, and became a private tutor. In 1807 he went to Vienna, where he found employ- ment in the imperial library, of which he be- came first director shortly before his death, with the title of councillor. He was prom- inent among the scholars who have brought light into the more obscure parts of Slavic eth- nology, philology, and literature. His works include Grammatik der slawiscJien Sprache in Krain, &c. (Laybach, 1808) ; Glagolita Clozi- anus (Vienna, 1836); and posthumous minor essays on Slavic philology, ethnology, history, and jurisprudence, edited by Miklosich (Vien- na, 1857). KOPP, Joseph Entyeh, a Swiss historian, born at Beromunster, Lucerne, in 1793, died Oct. 25, 1866. He was professor of Greek at Lucerne from 1819 to 1841, and afterward a member of the council of state and president of the board of education till 1845, when he was removed on account of his opposition to the restora- tion of the Jesuits. He has been called the Nie- buhr of Switzerland. In his Urlcunden zur