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* KING WILLIAM'S WAK. 515 KINO. either side. The struggle was brought to a close in 101)7 by the Peace of Kyswick. By its terms Louis V. gave up, with a few exceptions, all the conquests he had made in Kurope since 1678, and recognized William 111. as King of Great Britain, while there was to be a mutual resti- tution in America of all conquered territory. Consult: Parknian, Frontcnac and Xew France Under Louis XIV. (Boston, 1877); Drake, The Hordir Warn of .Veic Enijlnnd, Commonly Called Kin;/ William's and Queen Anne's Wars (New York, 1897 I : and llyrand, <S'ir William Phipps devant Quebec (Quebec, 1893). KINGWOOD. A very beautiful wood, used liir oi'iuuiidital work. It is exported from Brazil, and is believed to be the wood of a species of Dalbergia of the natural order LeguMiinosic. A number of species of Dalbergia furnish valuable woods, as blackwood, or East India rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia) and sissoo {Dalbergia 8is- soo) . KINIC, or QUINIC, ACID ( from Quichua A Ilia, (juina, bark, quinine I . CVHi.Oo. X sub- stance allied to benzoic acid, and occurring in cinchona bark, the coffee-beau, and other vege- table products. It is soluble in water and crys- tallizes in large colorless prisms. KINK'AJOU (probably local native name), or Potto. A South American tropical carnivore (Cercoleptes caudicohulus) of the raccoon fam- ily ( Procyonidip), formerly classed with lemurs on account of its woolly aspect, monkey-like dex- terity, and strong prehensile tail. Its body is about 18 inches long, and its tail 12 inches; and it is clothed in soft fur, imiform yellowish-brown in color, givinir it a lemur-like prcttincss, which, with its tamabilitv, makes the little animal an attractive ptt. It feeds on the eggs and young of birds, small animals, insects, honey and bees, frjiits. and the like: and uses its fore paws with a deftness almost equal to that of a monkey. It is found from Central Mexico to Southern Brazil. KINKEL, kinTcd. Gottfried (181,5-82). .^ German poet and art critic. He was bom at Oberkassel, near Bonn, August 11, 1815, studied theology at Bonn, and was for some time a dis- tinguished Protestant preacher. He lectured at various times, beginning with 183G, in the Uni- versity of Bonn, first on ecclesiastical history and later on poetr" and the history of art. Becoming involved in the revolutionary movements of 1848, )u' was imprisoned in the fortress of Spandnu, whence, however, he escaped, with the assistance of Carl Schurz. Kinkel then came to America, but soon after returned to London, where he re- sided as a public teacher. He died at Ztirich, Xoveniber 13. 1882. His principal works are two volunu's of Gedichte (1843. 7th ed. 1872); Olio der .*Jc7iiite, eine rheinische Geschichte in ^irolf Abenleuern (1846, 7.3d ed. 1894). a narra- tive poem: Die allchristliche Kunst (1845), which forms the first part of the unfinished Oesehichle der bildenden Kiins^le bei den ehrist- liehen Viilkern ; Die Ahr, Landschafl. Geschichte und Volksleben (1845) : .Yiiiirod. fin Trauerspicl (1857): Vo.iaik -ur Kuustfjcschichle (1876); Tanagra. Idyll aus Griechenland (1883). — Kin- kel's wife, .Joh.>"X. Kixkei.. born at Bonn. July 8. ISIO. a distinguished musician, wrote Acht liriefe iiber den Clniiernnlcrricht (18.52): and together with her husband. Frziihlungen (1849). She died in London, November 15, 1858. Her novel, Hans Ibelcs in London, was published posthumously. KINTiET, D. D (1861—). An American economist, born in Dundee, Scotland. He gradu- ated in 1884 at Yale, studied in the University of Wisconsin, and afterwards became professor of economics in the University of Illinois. His pub- lications include: The Independent Treasury of the United Stales (1893), and a valuable report to the Comptroller of the Currency on The Use of Credit Paper in Our Currency, published in the Ueport of the Comptroller for the year 1896. KIN'NEY, CoATES (182G— ). An American jinunali.-t md poet, born at Kinney's Comers, N. Y., Xovember 24, 1826. He was educated at Antioch College, Ohio, but did not graduate. He was admitted to the bar (1856) and became con- nected editorially with journals in Xenia and Cin- cinnati, Ohio, Springfield, 111., and elsewhere. He served in the Civil War as major and paymaster, and was active in Ohio Republican politics, being a Senator in the State Legislature (1882-83). His verses were collected in Ke-u-ka and Other I'oems ( 1855) and Lyrics of the Ideal and the Real (1888). One of his lyrics, "Rain on the Roof," as set to music was widely popular. KINNEY, WiLU-iM Bl-bnet (1799-1880). An American politician and diplomat, born in Speed- well, X. J. He studied law after graduating at Princeton, became an editor in Xewark. where he founded the Adiertiser, and was a prominent Whig. In 1851 he went to Turin as Minister to Sardinia. There and in Florence, where he lived for some time after the close of his mission, he worked on a history of Tuscany, which was not completed. He married, in 1841, Eliz.beth Clem- entine Stedm..n (1810-89), a sister of William E. Dodge and mother of Edmund C. Stedman. She was born in Xew Y'ork City, wrote for the Knickerbocker and for Blackirood's. and during her fourteen years' stay in Europe was a friend of the Brownings. She published Felicila, a Metrical Romance (1855); Poems (1867); and Biunca Cnpello, a Tragedy (1873). KIN'NOB (Heb. kinnor. harp. lyre). A musical instrument of the ancient Hebrews: simi- lar to the zither or harp, and provided with 32 strings. KINO (apparently of East ^ndian origin). The concrete exudation of certain tropical trees, especially the Pterocarpus marsupium (natu- ral order LeguminosiP), growing in the East Indies, which yields "East Indian kino.' East Indian kino is the kind which now chieHy occurs in commerce, and is the ordinary kino or gum kino of the shops. It is in small angular glistening fragments, the smaller reddish, the larger almost black. Thin pieces are ruby-red. It is brittle and easily powdered, has no smell, but a very astringent taste. Bengal kino is a similar astringent substance, produced by Butea frondosa. 'Botany Bay kino' is the produce of Fucalyptus rcsinifera. Kino is soluble in alcohol, but very sparingly soluble in ether .ond in cold water. Its chief con- stituents are: Kinotannic acid, C-,sH„Og; pyro- catechin. C„H, (OH);: and kino red, a product of oxidation of kinotannic acid. The astringency of kino is. mainly due to its containing kino- tannic acid, and in consequence of this property it is employed in medicine in certain forms of