Falster
one of the Danish islands straits from Zealand on the N., Moen on the W.; ing from 3 to 14 miles; area, 194 square length, N. to S., 27 miles; breadth, varymiles; surface, miles; surface, almost entirely flat. Falof all the Danish islands, is well watered, richly wooded, in fruit that it has been called the "orchard of Denmark." Products, corn, hemp, hops, cattle, honey, on. wax, etc. Some shi shipbuilding is carried 40,000.
Capital on. Capital, Nykjöbing. Pop. about port town of the island of Cyprus, 40 FAMAGUSTA (fa-ma-goos'ta), a seagoos'ta), a seamiles E. of Nicosia. Famagusta is built on the ruins of the ancient Arsinoë, and of the richest and most populous towns during the Venetian régime it was one during the Venetian régime gime it was one in the Levant.
It is now almost in ruins, with its once fine harbor almost choked up with sand, having declined since its conquest by the Turks in 1571. About conquest by the 5 miles N. E. are the ruins of Constantia, occupying the site of the ancient Salamis, now called Eski, or Old Famatia, occupying the site of the ancient gusta. Guy de Lusignan was here crowned King of Cyprus in 1191. a parents, children, and servants; the col- FAMILY, a household, including FAMILY, household, including lective body of persons who reside under one roof, and under a manager; those who descend from one one head, or common ancestor ; kindred; as, the human family; lineage; tribe or race; familia was applied to all persons in the line of ancestors . Among the Romans, daughters, grandchildren and slaves; power of a paterfamilias-as his sons, including all objects of property, even but it was also used in a wider sense, inanimate. The family is the cornerstone of the social edifice. Hence, it has been taken as a model for forming other associations-political, civil, or religious. Among the early early Hebrews, and in of government is only an extension of Eastern countries, the patriarchal form the family relationship. The Greeks refamily as a type of the state; and among the Romans the natural basis of the whole social and political power of a father was taken as the organization of the people. The family life is based upon the wants and necessi FAMINE ties of our nature, and is essentially fitted to develop and foster those habits and affections on which the happiness and welfare of mankind depend. It can, however, exist in a state of purity only where monogamy prevails.
In botany, a synonym for ORDER (q. v.). In zoölogy, the group above the genus. An order of animals should be divided into families according to the form of species, but, in fact, the greatest confusion reigns in the classification of the animal kingdom.