Firman

in Turkey, any decree i ued by the Porte and authenticated by the Sultan’s own cipher or signet. First Fruit, the fruit or produce. first matured or collected in any season; first _—— of anything; first or earliest effects of anything in a good - or bad sense. In ecclesiology, that. portion of the fruits of the earth and other natural tape which, by the usage of the Jews and other ancient nations, was offered to God. _— Fischer, Sir Henry Charles, German-English telegrapher; born in Munden, Hanover, in 1833. He was educated in Germany, and entered the Han over i an ae telegraph service in 1852; went to England in 1856; at the transfer of the telegraph to the State (1870), was deputed by the postmaster-general to organize the staff and other arrangements of the Central Telegraph Office, and made controller; he retired in 1898.