Farness

Distance; remotene . (R.) "Farne from timely succour by their friends." - Carew. Farnham, a town of England, co. Surrey, 38 m. S.W. of London, Great quantities of hops are produced in the neighborhood. Farnham Castle has been for centuries the residence of the bishops of Winchester. Pop . about 7,500. Farnham, in New York , a post-office of Erie co. Farnham, in Virginia , a post-village of Richmond co., about 55 m. E.N.E. of Richmond. Farnham Cro Roads, in Virginia, a post-office of Richmond co. Farnham East, a village of Lower Canada, co. of Shefford, about 15 m. E. of St. John's. Farnham West, a village of Lower Canada, co. of Shefford, 14 m. E. of St. John's. Far'numsville, in Ma achusetts , a post-village of Worcester co., about 60 m. W.S.W. of Boston. Farn'worth, a town of England, co. Lancaster, 3 m. from Bolton. Manuf . Cottons, . Pop . 21,000. Faro, a sea-port city of Portugal, on the S. coast of prov. Algarve, on the Valfermosa, 45 m. E.S.E. of Lagos, and 20 m. W.S.W. of Tavira; Lat. 36° 59' 24" N., Lon. 12° 31'18" E. Exp . Fruits, wine, cork, sumach, and anchovies. Pop . 9,000. Faro, (Cape,) the N.E. point of the island of Sicily, serving to bound the narrowest part of the Strait of Me ina; Lat. 38° 15′ 50′′ N., Lon. 15° 40′ 40′′ E.- Faro Channel is a name sometimes applied to the Strait of Me ina. Fa'ro, a village of Brazil, prov. of Para, about 40 m. W. of Obidos. Fa'ro, (or PHARAOH,) n. ( Games .) A game of chance at cards, said to derive its name from the figure of the Egyptian king Pharaoh, which was formerly upon one of the cards. It may be played by any number of persons, who sit at a table generally covered with a green cloth. The keeper of the table is called the banker . The player is called the punter (from It. puntare ), who re ceives a livret or small book from which to choose his cards, upon which he may at his option set any number of stakes, which are limited in amount in accordance with the capital of the banker. The latter turns up the cards from a complete pack, one by one, laying them first to his right for the bank, and then to his left for the punter (or player), till all the cards are dealt out. The banker wins when the card equal in points to that on which the stake is set turns up at his right hand, but loses when it is dealt to the left. The player ioses half his stake when his card comes out twice in the same stroke. The last card but one, the chance of which the banker claims, but which is now frequently given up, is called locly (a certainty). The last card neither wins nor loses. Where a punter gains, he may either take his money or parol i ; that is to say, double his chance by venturing both his stake and gains, which he intimates by bending a corner of his card upward. If he wins again, he may play sept et le va , which means that after having gained a parol i he tries to win sevenfold, bending his card a second time. Should he again be succe ful, he can parol i for quinze et le va, for trente et le va , and finally for soixante et le va, which is the highest chance in the game. F. was formerly much in vogue in France, England, and Europe generally, and still retains its copularity in various parts of the world. - A variety of this game is also much played by gamblers in the U. States. One hundred faro banks are said to exist in New York alone; there are also banks in almost all other American cities. The method of play in the U. States is as follows: The dealer, with a large array of cheques at his right hand, representing $1, $5, $20, and so on upward, takes his seat at the centre of a table with 13 cards, representing a complete pack, affixed to it at convenient distance to mark distinctly the bet placed on each. Persons who wish to play, exchange at pleasure money for such amount of cheques as they desire to risk, and place the amount they intend to stake on any particular card upon the table. The dealer then produces a pack of cards and shuffles them (the option of shuffling resting also with any of the players who call for it), has them cut, and then places them in a box, from which, one by one, he deliberately slides them. The banker loses when the card equal in points to that on which the stake is set turns up on his right, but wins when it is on the left. But it is in the power of the player, by placing a small copper on the amount he places on the card, to reverse the chance. This, which is called cop pering, enables the player, in fact, to bet on whichever card he pleases. The dealer stops between each two cards, while new bets are being made, or cheques change from one card to another; and thus the game proceeds to the close of the pack, when a fresh deal is made, and the same proce is gone through. The banker wins on "splits," which is supposed to be the only odds in its favor, but it po e es others in its superior amount of capital, and in the inclination of most players to stake heavier in the effort to recover back than to support good luck. In Germany, the cards are not dealt out from a box, but nailed to a fine board and torn off one by one by the dealer. Here, the dealer is generally a isted also by one or two croupiers, who attend to the playing and receiving, guarding against errors, and shuffling the pack. Sweden; Lat. 57° 56′ N., Lon. 19° 32′ E. It is in length 10 m., with a mean breadth of 3, and has on its E. side a village of the same name.