Farr (fär), William

Born at Kenley, Shrop-ince of southern Persia: the ancient Persia. shire, England, Nov. 30, 1807: died April 14, 1883. An English statistician. Farragut (far'a-gut), David Glasgow. Born at Campbell's Station, Tenn., July 5, 1801: died at Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14, 1870. A cele brated American admiral. He was the son of George Farragut, a Spaniard who emigrated to America in 1776 and fought in the Continental army in the Revolutionary It is bounded by Irak-Ajemí on the north, Kirmanon the east, Laristan on the southeast, the Persian Gulf on the southwest, and Khuzistan on the northwest. The capital is Shiraz, and the chief port Bushire. Farsan (fär-sän') Archipelago. A group con Fatal Marriage, The personates his brother to get po e ion of Mi Hoyden and her fortune. See Hoyden . Fashionable Lover, The. A play by Cumber land, produced in 1772. Fashionable Tales, or Tales of Fashionable Life. Tales by Mi Edge worth. The first instalment appeared in 1809, and the last in 1812. They com. prise "Ennui," "The Dun," "Manœuvring," "Almeria," "Vivian," "The Absentee," "Madame de Fleury," and "Emilie de Coulanges." Mountains. Fashoda (fä-shō'dä). Atown in the Shilluk country, Africa, on the White Nile about lat. 9o N. Fa a (fä ä). The upper part of the Avisio valley in southern Tyrol, noted for the DoloFasti (fas'ti). [L. (sc. dies , days), pl. of fast us , lit. 'on which one may speak': used absolutely for a day on which court can be held, a court day.] See the extract. The Pontifices, who po e ed the art of keeping account of the time, arranged also the fasti, i. e. a list of the days for "awards" or the administration of the law ( dies agendi , dies fasti ), this being part of the table of each month (Kalendarium), enumerating also the feasts, games, markets, sacrifices, etc., falling on each day, to which were gradually joined first the anniversaries of disasters, and then other short notices of historical events, as well as observations on the rising of certain constellations. After these fasti had been made public, private persons also undertook the compilation of fasti in the shape of tables or books, and they became the subjects of learned discu ions. After the introduction of the Julian era (709/45) these publications became again official, and were made by the Emperor in his quality of pontifex maximus. We po e a number of fragments of calendars which were engraved or written (painted) at Rome and in neighbour. ing Italian towns, and which extend from the 8th century U. C. to the time of Claudius (from a. 723/31 B. c. to 804/51 A. D.). When the new chronology had become sufficiently familiar, the industry of private persons found there a new field. There are still two complete calendars in existence, an official one of the 4th century written by Furius Dionysius Phi local us A. D. 354, and a Christian revision of the official calendar composed by Polemius Silvius (A. D. 448 sq.). From denoting lists of days and months, the name of fasti was also transferred to lists of years containing the names of the chief annual magistrates (fasti consul a res), the triumphs held in each year (fasti triumph a les), and the priests (fasti sacerdotales). Fragments of fasti in this sense of the word likewise come down to us, and of these the fasti capitol in i are by far the most important.