Fill a table top-bottom with jQuery?

I have an object at hands, containing an unknown number of properties. Each and every one of these properties, I want to represent as a list item in a table where the elements are spread out either equally top-to-bottom between the set number of columns as shown below or when they reach a maximum number.

The dataset:

{"one", "two", "three", "four"}

The result I want:

one   |  three |
two   |  four  |
      |        |

So how would I do this with jQuery?