The Standard Reference Work Volume 3; For the Home, School and Library

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...entrances, taken in connection with the enormous size of the building, indicate that Fiesole was a populous sporting city when Catiline made it his headquarters 63 B. C. The chief local industry is now the braiding of hats. Fife, a wind instrument resembling the flute. The melody is produced by blowing through a hole in a reed or tube. The current of air is regulated by opening and closing six holes with the fingers. A single key is sometimes added. The instrument has a compass of two to three octaves according to the skill of the player. The player of the fife may be recognized in the rock sculptures of the most ancient civilizations. Its notes are especially stirring. Fife and drum are associated traditionally in military music. Fifth Monarchy Men, a name assumed by a sect of English Second Adventists in the time of Cromwell. They attempted risings to establish a fifth kingdom. They asserted that Assyria, Persia, Greece, and Rome were to be succeeded by a fifth monarchy over which Christ would rule in person. Risings were suppressed in 1657 and 1661. Fig, the name of a large family including the India rubber and banyan trees. There are over a hundred kinds, but the fig of commerce is raised on a small tree chiefly in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. The fruit is pearshaped, varying from a plum to an apple In size. The best figs are those of Smyrna. Turkey sells about $2,500,000 worth of dried figs a year. The Carolinas have developed quite a fig industry, but it has had a setback by severe winters. California has raised figs from the time of their introduction by the old Spanish missions. Some of these old trees have grown enormously. The Century Magazine for October, 1892, illustrates one of these banyanlike fig trees, the branches of wh...