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LEFT FTJSISPORIUM has FYZABAD ticket enough votes to defeat a nominee of a third party at an election, that would be called a "fusion ticket." In chemistry, every substance begins to fuse at a certain temperature, which is in- variable for each of them if the pressure be constant. Whatever be the intensity of the source of heat, from the moment fusion commences the temperature of the body ceases to rise, and remains constant till the fusion is complete. Some bodies have a definite fusing or melting point, as mercui*y at — 38.8° ; ice. -fO; butter, +33; phosphorus, +44; sulphur, + 114; tin, + 228; lead, +335; zinc, + 422; antimony, + 450; silver, + 1,000; gold, + 1,250; and iron, + 1,500. Some have no definite point of fusion, melting gradually. This is called vit- reous fusion. FUSISPOmUM, in botany^ a genus of hyphomycetous fungi, forming first a mildew and next an extensive gelatinous stratum, with spindle-shaped spores. There are many British species. Fusis- porium atrovireiis is a destructive mil- dew on onions; F. foeni is found in orange-red patches many feet wide; and F. grisentn is common on dead leaves. FUSTIAN, a species of cotton cloth somewhat similar m manufacture to vel- vet, having, in addition to the warp and weft, a species of pile. When in the loom, this pile presents the appearance of a set of loops; but these are after- ward cut in two and sheared down. The fustian, when polished and finished, presents an evenly-ribbed surface on the exterior. The best descriptions of this class of goods are those known as cotton-velvet and velveteen; but besides these there are moleskin, corduroy, and several other kinds. See Weaving. In literature, a forced, bombastic style of writing. FTTSXJS, in zoology a genus of Gastero- poda, family Muricidse. Shell, fusiform; canal, long, straight; operculum, ovate curved; nucleus, apicol. Known i^cent species, 184; fossil, 320; these latter, perhaps from the Bath Oolite, or at least the Gault, to the Eocene. Fusus or Chry- sodomus antiqutis is the buckie and roar- ing buckie of Scotland. F. colosseus and F. proboscidalis are of large size. FUTURE LIFE, a life to succeed this one; a life beyond the tomb. Ethnic Fadtlis. — The belief in a future life is very widely spread. In its early form no distinction is drawn between the souls of men and brutes; for both another state of existence is reser-ed. In the lowest form of Animism, a figure of a deceased friend appearing to a sur- vivor in a dream is supposed to be the actual soul of the person dead, whence faith in another state of existence be- comes natural and easy. Two distinct forms of belief now diverge, the one leading in the direction of the transmi- gration of souls, the other maintaining the independent existence of the personal soul after the death of the body. Among the lower races, the moral element in the doctrine of a future life is almost wholly wanting. Judaism. — There are but few allusions to a future life in the Old Testament. The most notable one is, "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting con- tempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteous- ness as the stars forever and ever" (Dan. xii:2,3). Christianity. — "Jesus Chi'ist," says St. Paul, "hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (II Tim. i: 10). The doctrine in this case is not merely that of the immortality of the soul, not trans- migrated, but retaining its separate in- dividuality (see Immortality) ; there is superadded to this the resurrection and transformation of the body (see Resurrex:tion), The moral element in the doctrine of a future life is here all in all. FYFFE, CHARLE3 ALAN, an Eng- lish historian; bom in Blackheath, Kent, England, in December, 1845; was gradu- ated at Oxford in 1868; and was called to the bar in 1876, but never practiced. As correspondent of the "Daily News" during the Franco-Prussian War he is said to have sent to that journal the first account of the battle of Sedan that appeared in print. On account of a false charge, he committed suicide. His his- torical works include "History of Greece" (1875); "History Primers"; and the well-known "History of Modern Europe" (1880, 1886, 1890). He died Feb. 19, 1892. FYZABAD, or FAIZABAU. a city in the United Provinces of India, the capi- tal of the division of the same name. Within its limits are many temples and a vast number of ruins of the ancient city of Ayodhya. The great fair annually held here is attended by over half a million pilgrims. There is an important trade in wheat and rice. The city contains large sugar refineries. It is the headquarters of a British commis- sioner. Pop. about 60,000.