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KEENE KEILL 781 they were with the Wichitas on Washita river, near old Fort Cobb, to the number of 126. Their language shows that, like the Wichitas, they are of the same stock as the Pawnees. KEENE, a city, capital of Cheshire co., New Hampshire, on the left bank of the Ashuelot river, at the junction of the Cheshire and Ash- uelot railroads, 43 m. W. S. W. of Concord, and 80 m. N. W. of Boston ; pop. in 1870, 5,971. It is pleasantly situated, well built, and laid out with great regularity, the principal streets ra- diating from a central square, near which stands a handsome court house. An active trade is carried on with the surrounding country, and there is a large number of manufacturing es- tablishments, including woollen mills, machine shops, tanneries, and establishments for manu- facturing carriages, chairs, furniture, sashes, doors, and blinds, earthenware, &c. The rail- road repair shops employ a large number of workmen. There are three national banks with an aggregate capital of $500,000, two savings banks, graded public schools, including a high school, two weekly newspapers, and seven churches. Keene was settled about 1735, and called Upper Ashuelot. It received its present name in 1753, and was incorporated as a city in 1874. The population is rapidly increasing. KEENE, Lanra, an American actress, born in England in 1820, died at Montclair, N. J., Nov. 4, 1873. She was distinguished on the London stage in light comedy, and excelled particularly as Pauline in " The Lady of Lyons." She first appeared in New York, Sept. 20, 1852, played in San Francisco in 1854, and afterward in Australia. In 1855 she assumed the manage- ment of the Varieties theatre in New York, and soon afterward of a new one called Laura Keene's theatre (now the Olympic); and in October, 1858, she brought out " Our Ameri- can Cousin," with Jefferson as Asa Trenchard and Sothern as Dundreary. From 1860 to 1870 she managed a travelling company, reap- peared in New York in 1870, and was last on the stage shortly before her death. Among her marked personations were Marco in " The Mar- ble Heart " and Becky Sharp in " Vanity Fair." KEFF, or El-Keff, a town of north Africa, in the regency and 88 m. S. W. of the city of Tunis; pop. about 6,000. It is the key of Tunis on the Algerian frontier, from which it is distant 27 m. It is built on an elevated plateau, and is surrounded by mountains and by forests of cedar and chestnut. The walls are kept in good repair, and the fortress mounts more than 130 cannon. The in- habitants include many warlike and occasion- ally troublesome mountaineers. The adjacent country is very fertile, and the scenery is beau- tiful. Keff possesses a Roman well and a statue of Venus. Inscriptions from here led to the supposition that it occupies the site of Sicca Veneria, a Numidian town, originally Phoeni- cian, subsequently a Roman colony. KEHL, a town of Germany, in Alsace-Lor- raine, on the right bank of the Rhine, at its junction with the Kinzig, opposite Strasburg ; pop. about 4,000. It was fortified by the French toward the close of the 17th century, and was restored to Germany by the treaty of Ryswick (1697). Subsequently the fortifica- tions were razed, and it became a thriving manufacturing and commercial place. During the revolution the fortifications were restored, and in 1815 again demolished, the town having been in the interval alternately in German and French possession, and endured many sieges and other vicissitudes. A new bridge over the Rhine, completed in 1861, placed Kehl in direct communication with the French railways, and trade prospered till 1870, when the Franco- German war injured the place. On July 22 the Germans began to blow up the railway bridge, and the French subsequently opened fire, destroying the handsome Gothic church, the custom house, the railway depot, and 40 private houses. Kehl belonged to the grand duchy of Baden till 1874, when it became part of Alsace-Lorraine. KEIGHLET, a town of England, on the Aire, and in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the Liverpool and Leeds canal and the Preston and Leeds railway, 15 m. W. N. W. of Leeds ; pop. in 1871, 15,965. It has a Latin school, a me- chanics' institute, and manufactories of paper, linen, woollen, and cotton goods. KEIGHTLEY, Thomas, a British author, born in Dublin in October, 1789, died near Erith, Kent, in December, 1872. He took his bache- lor's degree at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1808, and devoted himself to literature in London. He assisted T. Crofton Croker in the " Fairy Legends of Ireland," published histories of Rome, Greece, and England, " Fairy Mytholo- gy," "Outlines of History," "Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy," " History of India," "Scenes and Events of the Crusades," and other works, and edited the writings of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Sallust, and the " Life and Poems of Milton." Among his latest works was " The Shakespeare Expositor " (1867). In the latter part of his life he was pensioned by the government. KEILL, John, a Scottish mathematician, born in Edinburgh, Dec. 1, 1671, died in Oxford, Sept. 1, 1721. He was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford, became assistant Sedleian professor of physics at Oxford in 1700, and was subse- quently chosen fellow of the royal society of London. In 1709 he was appointed treasurer to the Palatines, German emigrants whom the government was sending to New England. On his return in 1710 he became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. In 1711 he was ap- pointed by Queen Anne decipherer of state papers. He was a fierce assailant of Burnet, Leibnitz, and the other opponents of the New- tonian theories. The most important of his many learned works are Introductio ad Veram Physicam (1701), and Introductio ad Veram Astronomiam (1718). The best edition of his works is that of Milan (1742).